Arjowiggins secure ticket contract for FIFA Confederations Cup and World Cup
By James Crook
April 8 - Leading paper product producer Arjowiggins have secured a contract which will see them recognised as official ticket producer for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which are both to be held in Brazil.
April 8 - Leading paper product producer Arjowiggins have secured a contract which will see them recognised as official ticket producer for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which are both to be held in Brazil.
April 10 - Libya is planning to build a new 60,000-seater stadium in capital city Tripoli in time to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, Sports Minister Abdussalam Guaila has announced, with another smaller 23,000-capacity stadium to be located in Misrata also in the pipeline.
April 7 - Chinese Olympic and world champion Zhang Jike continued to struggle for form in the singles at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Korea Open in Incheon City after suffering defeat again, but he still left Incheon with a gold medal after coming out victorious in the doubles with South Korean partner Seo Hyundeok.
April 10 - IMG Licensing have been given the job of cashing in on the success of Team GB at London 2012, where Britain produced their best Olympic performance for 104 years by finishing third overall in the medals table with 29 gold medals.
April 9 - A new annual international tournament in Tbilisi, Georgia, has been launched by the International Rugby Board (IRB) as part of their strategy to increase the competition schedule for second tier nations.
April 10 - Sport England have announced a major £24 million ($37 million/€28 million) investment boost for their successful Sportivate programme which aims to get young people between 14 to 25-year-olds more involved in sport.
April 10 - Basketball Australia is to set to appoint its first full-time coach for the Gliders, the country's women wheelchair team, as they seek to win its first-ever Paralympic gold medal at Rio 2016.
April 10 - South Korean officials have launched official Facebook and Twitter pages in English to help promote the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.
April 10 - England Hockey chief executive Sally Munday has claimed her organisation is going to do everything to make sure it wins the rights to host the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup after the nation was shortlisted for the event by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) last month.
April 9 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is likely to call a pause in the process of selling Australian broadcasting rights to the next two Olympic Games, due to less than favourable market conditions.
April 8 - Scotland's curlers will defend their European mixed title on home ice this year after the World Curling Federation (WCF) announced Edinburgh as the host of the 2013 European Mixed Championship.
April 10 - Scotland's first purpose built cycling track for disabled people is on course to open later this spring in Cawdor, just outside of Inverness, at the new Highland Cycle Ability Centre.
April 9 - Japan's Koji Murofushi is tomorrow due to attend a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing in Lausanne as he tries to overturn the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to disqualify him from a place on its Athletes' Commission.
April 6 - The 2013 USA Boxing National Championships at Spokane, Washington, saw numerous new male and female champions crowned in what is America's premier Olympic-style boxing event.
April 9 - FIFA payments to so-called "key management personnel" have surged in the past four years, as revealed by figures in the world governing body's financial reports.
