A force of nature as a player, legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel met an equally forceful character in his Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. One highlight of a new doc about Schmeichel is him and Ferguson weighing in on the time they had a full-blown stand-up row in the team changing rooms…

Storied sports channel Eurosport will disappear from British screens next month as Warner Bros. Discovery rejigs its sports portfolio. Live sports and other programming from Eurosport will move to the TNT channels, which are operated as a joint venture between WBD and UK telco BT. Eurosport…

The UK’s Premier League soccer is to start producing and distributing its own content for the first time in two decades after ending its partnership with IMG. The new Premier League in-house operation will launch in 2026, with more details coming in due course following today’s decision made at…

Tom Lockyer, a team captain for the Premier League’s Luton Town soccer club, was in stable condition Saturday at the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest on the field during a match. The match between Luton and host Bournemouth was abandoned after Lockyer collapsed during the 59th minute…

The Premier League juggernaut keeps rolling after the English football competition sold UK television rights for 2025 and beyond in a reported £6.7B ($8.5B) auction. Comcast-owned Sky maintained its stranglehold on rights to the Premier League, securing four of five packages of live games…

Apple is said to be interested in bidding for the rights to broadcast English soccer games, according to a new report published this morning. The report, found in Bloomberg, states that the rights currently under consideration at Apple would allow the company to broadcast games from the Premier…

Actor, producer, and director Michael B. Jordan is now part owner of the English soccer team AFC Bournemouth. A statement from the Premier League club Tuesday morning announced that a deal had closed, finalizing its sale to a partnership led by American businessman Bill Foley and a minority…

Premier League football could go D2C in Asia at some point in the coming years, according to Richard Masters, CEO of one of the world’s most lucrative sports leagues. Speaking at APOS 2022 yesterday, Masters said there are “narrow opportunities in Asia to go D2C if we choose to do so,” although current…

Three Premier League football matches including Chelsea vs. Liverpool plus Arsenal’s European fixture against PSV Eindhoven have been cancelled this weekend due to preparations for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. In a statement issued in the past few minutes, the Premier League said there was “no other option…

Paramount+ is to air live Premier League football in Mexico and Central America from next season. Subscribers to ViacomCBS’ SVoD in the region will be able to watch 380 live matches for three seasons from 2022/23 onwards as ViacomCBS looks to bolster Paramount+’s content offering, moving beyond scripted and…

UPDATED with Telemundo statement: NBCUniversal has extended one of its key sports properties, Premier League soccer, for another six years. From the 2022-23 season through 2028, 380 matches will be carried across the company’s broadcast, cable and streaming outlets. Games will be on NBC, USA Network, Peacock…

The English Premier League has announced that it has agreed in principle to roll over its £5 billion ($7B) deal with Sky, Amazon, and BT Sport for UK rights to the prestigious soccer competition. The deal, which has been endorsed by the UK government to ward off an antitrust investigation, means that Sky, Amazon…