Americas

Football

Major League Soccer has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft to promote its Windows 8 platform.

American Football

A buy-out deal for ESPN America could be weeks away, with Setanta, Chello and Eurosport all in the frame

Handball

Ufa Sports faces a hard battle to hold on to World Championship handball rights

Rugby Union

Premiership Rugby: Why it’s the right time to launch an international club sevens tournament

Tennis

The US Tennis Association has sealed 11-year rights deals for the US Open with US pay-TV broadcaster ESPN and Canadian pay-TV broadcasters TSN and RDS.

American Football

DirecTV Sports and its Root Sports regional sports network has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Mountain West US college sports conference.

Ice Skating

NBC Sports has acquired rights for the 2014 US Olympic speedskating trials.

Fox Sports will launch a second national sports channel in the US this summer, to complement the launch of Fox Sports 1 in August, according to a report.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has announced plans to show highlights of sporting events on Twitter.

Tennis

US sports broadcaster ESPN is in talks to acquire all domestic rights to the US Open tennis tournament.

Cycling

Amaury Sport Organisation does an early deal to renew its domestic rights deal for the Tour de France with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, taking advantage of the weakness of its commercial rivals.

Tennis

Qatari pay-television operator Al Jazeera has denied it is interested in acquiring Tennis Channel, the US pay-television broadcaster
Football

Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster Esporte Interativo has acquired rights for the Campeonato Paraibano, the regional football league in the state of Paraíba, Brazil.

The CBS Sports Network pay-television channel, which is operated by US network CBS, has acquired rights to the AMA Pro Road Racing motorcycling series
American Football

The Denver Broncos NFL American football franchise has agreed a media rights deal with local pay-television broadcaster Kusa TV
Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse, the sport’s top league in North America, has struck a deal with YouTube to make games available on a live basis via the video-sharing website.

US college sports organisation the Atlantic Coast Conference has agreed a deal that will allow the league to retain the media rights to any university that leaves the conference
Football

Olympics deal part of Slim plan to expand media empire in Latin America through top sport