The two openings together give the club something almost no other side in South African football has: direct control of its own merchandise counter in two very different markets.

World Athletics will name the 2029 and 2031 hosts after the inaugural Ultimate Championship in Budapest on 11–13 September.

Formula E's African distribution today runs almost entirely through pay-TV. SuperSport carries the championship across more than 40 sub-Saharan markets

For African football, the proposal is less a distant governance row than a direct financial windfall - and potentially a lasting shift in who holds power over the game.

Expansion drive backed by existing Presenting Partner Bank of America; race adds children's and secondary-school entries alongside record turnout ahead of its 22 November edition. The 2026 edition, runs under the theme "My Run, My Color”.

The expertise accumulated in Dakar - in logistics, event management, media operations, athlete services, and venue management - flows outward to sports organisations from Cairo to Cape Town long after the Olympic flame is extinguished.

Team PRONC signed its entry during E1's Monaco race weekend at the Yacht Club de Monaco, according to a statement. It becomes the latest addition to a grid whose ownership roster is heavily weighted toward celebrity investors, including LeBron James, Tom Brady, Rafael Nadal and Didier Drogba.

Spain won the first 48-team World Cup and the largest prize in the game's history, a record $50 million. But the more telling number sits further down the table: Africa's 10 teams banked $120 million, out-earning South America and turning the expanded field into real money for CAF.

All three figures trace back to FIFA. None of them is wrong. But only one of them is prize money, and the confusion says a great deal about how the governing body's record $871 million distribution has been reported.

Emenalo, the Nigerian-born former technical director at Chelsea and Monaco, was one of the highest-profile executive appointments in the SPL.

The grant will be delivered through existing National Olympic Committee (NOC) structures. Every Olympian. Not just medal winners.

Rwanda is extending a sports-marketing strategy that until now has run entirely through team and league sponsorships.

The South African outgoing CEO of the National Rugby League, will take charge of Australian tennis in August 2026, emerging from a global search that drew more than 150 candidates and was run by executive search firm Egon Zehnder.

It is one of the most significant executive moves in the global tennis business in years - and the case for it runs deeper than the commercial record he is best known for.

A 10-nation price index for the 2026 World Cup - flights, beds, tickets and meals, benchmarked to a single match day in New York. But qualifying is the team's job. For the fan, the harder question comes next: what does it actually cost to be there?

A new governance pact hands players a seat at the table on transfers and prize money. For African football, the quieter wins may matter most.

As a record 10 African teams take the field in North America, the tournament arrives on screens across the continent through the most fragmented - and most African-owned - rights landscape the World Cup has ever had. See the full map.

The announcement landed alongside a separate milestone for the French media group - its formal listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), following its acquisition of MultiChoice Group.

Under the agreement, DAZN will carry EFC events free-to-view for audiences worldwide, excluding Sub-Saharan Africa and Poland. The deal expands DAZN's global combat sports offering while giving EFC its broadest international platform to date.

The ambassadorship for Ria is part of a deliberate strategy of aligning with African football figures whose stories resonate with its core customer base.