Applicants from the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain vie to host Play the Game in 2009.

Using dubious tactics, the Pan American Team Handball Federation (PATHF) refuses to recognise a ruling from the International Handball Federation (IHF) that teams from Greenland can continue to take part in PATHF's world cup qualifications.  But one team is allowed to participate on a temporary basis.

The increasing competition newspapers are facing from developments in the communications industries are pushing some journalists to exaggerate and spin stories to sell papers and justify their jobs argues Philip Townsend, communications director for Manchester United Football Club.

English FA Cup becoming irrelevant to fans; European Association for Sport Management Conference; ‘To remember is to resist’ conference on sport and social change; Media Manager job at Streetfootballworld.

The English FA are reported to have agreed to visit Trinidad and Tobago to play a friendly against the ‘Soca Warriors’ subject to two conditions; Jack Warner apologises for calling them an irritant, and an agreement is reached with Trinidad and Tobago players over World Cup monies owed from the 2006 tournament.

FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke appears to have given his backing to Dominica Football Association president Dexter Francis in his battle to remain head of the DFA. Francis was allegedly the subject of a failed coup d’état at the DFA by former association president Patrick John, backed by FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.

Match-fixing and corruption are nothing new in Asian Handball according to Bahraini Olympic Committee member Mohammed Abul. Abul provided documents to Bahrain newspaper, The Gulf Daily News, which suggests that Kuwait bought referees to ensure ‘success’.

Tokyo’s bid to stage the Olympic Games in 2016 could be derailed over the ongoing argument in Asian Handball over qualification for the Beijing Games. Kuwaiti prince Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of both the Asian Handball Federation and the Olympic Council of Asia, revoked his endorsement for the Japanese capital as a result of Japanese involvement in the argument.