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 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.

FIFA are standing by their Vice-President Jack Warner, after he was referred to the FIFA Ethics Committee by the Dominican Football Association (DFA). Warner, who is also head of CONCACAF, the governing body of North, Central American and Caribbean football is accused of “appalling conduct, and flagrant abuse of power” by the DFA after declaring to the association his intent to reshape Dominica’s football hierarchy.

If football is doing so well, why are so many English clubs going into administration? Play the Game took a fresh look at various aspects of the football business including the marketing of European clubs overseas and the search for the “holy grail” of profitability.

Year in, year out, governments at all levels and corporate bodies spend billions of naira on Sports Development. But there is little, or nothing to show for their huge investment. Olukayode Thomas reports that, unless President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua declares a state of emergency in sports, Nigeria, a country teeming with talented athletes in all areas of sports, will continue to play second fiddle to other nations at global championships.

When in 2005 the draft of a European Constitution failed, sport was left without any article of its own and, thus, without a legal framework on the EU level. That is why the European Commission started a process to implement legal regulation of sports nevertheless.

The small country of Panama currently has not only one but two different Olympic Committees. Which committee is the right one is difficult to say as an attempt to resolve the situation in December failed completely despite intervention from the IOC.