The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has effectively opened the door for prospective hosts to design the event whichever way they please, after a strategic roadmap was approved at the organisation's General Assembly last week.

Tottenham Hotspur fans arriving for their match at Newcastle United on Sunday must have thought they had wandered into a Saudi souk by mistake. Scores of male home supporters dressed in Arabian clobber thronged in a typecast entrance to St James' Park selling price souvenir shirts, scarves and programmes while dancing gigs of joy.

It is hard to think that the FIFA statutes will not at some point come into play in the ongoing tractations over a two-yearly World Cup.

For a man who has devoted so many of his 90 years to statistics - in the beloved sphere of athletics - it must go against the grain not to be exact about this. But Stan Greenberg reckons he has possibly, probably, seen more world records than anybody. Ever.

For the second time in a little over seven months, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission is set to be bolstered by the addition of new members.

The International Rafting Federation (IRF) has just been accepted as a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code Signatory. With this historic milestone, we look back at where we’ve come from and what is in the pipeline for sport rafting.

The Ashes series between Australia and England this December now seems likely to go ahead. England named a touring party this week after long discussions between the two cricket Boards.

The next International Olympic Committee (IOC) Presidential election may be just shy of four years away, but talk in the Movement has already turned to Thomas Bach’s potential successor.

"I am the greatest!" That famous phrase, with its familiar echoes from more than half of the century ago, came as a throaty roar from Tyson Fury as he celebrated his catch-your-breath conquest of Deontay Wilder to finally conclude their terrific trilogy in Las Vegas last weekend.

Congratulations and good luck to Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović as she steps up to the top post in the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Future Host Commission for the Games of the Olympiad.

Members of the British Tennis Journalists’ Association (BTJA) have written to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tours with an urgent request that they restore personal press contact with players.

When you hear of someone "running out of excuses" in sport, the phrase is usually saved for those in managerial or administrative roles. But thanks to the unique circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes - and specifically those who have not been vaccinated against the virus - now find themselves in that position. 

In the countdown to any Commonwealth Games, there are unique and special milestones which cause all of us to pause and reflect on what has gone before, and what is still to come.

It is always refreshing to see more than one name next to "President" on a list of candidates for a Presidential election at an International Federation (IF).