Americas

IMG Sports and Entertainment president George Pyne is leaving the newly combined WME/IMG agency to pursue new business interests.

Olympics

US media company NBCUniversal has committed to airing 24.5 hours of the upcoming 2014 Youth Olympic Games on the NBC network and pay-television broadcaster NBC Sports Network – the first time the event will be afforded coverage on the two platforms.

Baseball

A US district judge has ruled that Major League Baseball cannot use an antitrust exemption to avoid facing a lawsuit from fans who claim that the league unfairly dictates broadcast markets for its clubs.

American Football

The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a 10-year deal to manage the multimedia rights of the athletics division of Northern Illinois University.

Football

International sports broadcasters ESPN and Fox Sports have retained pay-television rights for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League European club football tournaments in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Swimming

Fina, the global governing body of aquatic sports, has agreed an eight-year rights deal with Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

Baseball

Mexican media company AYM Sports has acquired the broadcast rights in the Americas to the 2014 U15 Baseball World Cup.

Wrestling

Canadian telecommunications company Rogers Communications has agreed an exclusive 10-year rights and distribution deal, from 2014-15 to 2023-24, with the WWE wrestling organisation.

Ice Hockey

North American pay-television broadcaster One World Sports has agreed a three-year deal for the rights to new pan-European club ice hockey competition the Champions Hockey League.

Boxing

Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin’s promoter, K2 Promotions, has signed a multi-fight rights deal with US pay-television broadcaster HBO.

Baseball

US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable has said it is willing to let an arbitrator determine a fair price for carriage of the SportsNet LA regional pay-television sports channel in the hope of ending a dispute with other operators over distribution of the platform, which is owned by MLB baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The World Touring Car Championship has secured enhanced coverage of its next round in Argentina as local hero Jose Maria Lopez aims to build on his lead in the drivers’ championship, with four television channels signing deals to broadcast the event in the country.

Basketball

US pay-television broadcaster Comcast SportsNet has extended its local rights deal with NBA basketball franchise the Sacramento Kings.

The Fox Sports Digital and Sporting News Media digital services have confirmed a multi-platform content, distribution and media partnership in the US.

Football

América Móvil, the Mexican telecommunications company owned by multi-billionaire Carlos Slim, has acquired rights for home matches featuring Mexican top-tier football club Universidad de Guadalajara, according to news website La Aficion.

Minor Sports

Canadian broadcast group Asian Television Network has acquired rights to the inaugural season of the Pro-Kabaddi League.

Multi-sport

Digital sports video agency SendtoNews has entered into a media partnership with Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC for its coverage of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event.

Multi-sport

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, is to distribute programming to international audiences through a subscription channel on video-sharing website YouTube.