Zimbabwe Cricket has run into difficulties after the country’s Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) has refused to endorse its new draft constitution because it is undemocratic.

Germany replaced two old sports organisations with one new on 20 May as its former sports confederation and national Olympic Committee merged into a new all-encompassing sports confederation Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB).

Knowledge bank: Michel Zen-Ruffinen, ousted Secretary General of FIFA, held the closing speech at Play the Game 2005 on road maps for better governance in sport. The sports lawyer gave examples of corruption in sport and some counter measures. However, the real problems are located in sports administration and Zen-Ruffinen called for the public to act as prosecutors on behalf of sport.

Knowledge bank: Programme specialist, Paul Marriott-Lloyd speaks at Play the Game about the realisation of an important milestone in the fight against doping in sport.

Knowledge bank: Mary Hums from the Sport Administration Program from Louisville University defines sport governance and presents management models as well as the social, ethical, ecomomical, educational and political considerations concerning sport governance.

The former general secretary of FIFA, Michel Zen-Ruffinen, today wrapped up the Play the Game conference by stating that international sport organisations need new rules or structures in order to counter corruption and improve governance.

Knowledge bank: In his speech at Play the Game 2002, investigative reporter Andrew Jennings took a close look at the members of FIFA's Executive Committee and the audit committee to examine charges of corruption against FIFA. Jennings is not optimistic that football sleaze will decline in the coming years - on the contrary.

Sport reporters Jens Weinreich and Thomas Kistner review the strange ways television rights are sold in FIFA, president Blatter's election in 1998 and the circumstances around the selection of Germany as host for the World Cup 2006.