Last Friday, the AFL Commission met with Melbourne FC President Don McLardy and Chief Executive Officer Peter Jackson, who detailed a number of significant challenges facing the club and substantial changes required to improve the performance of the club at every level. Coupling this important meeting for the Melbourne Football Club was the announcement that McLardy was resigning his post at the club.

For the first time in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), the opening games of the season will be played in Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). This announcement marks the first time that a MLB match has been played in Australia and the sixth time that the opening games of the season has been held outside the USA.

Attendances at VFL/AFL matches in New South Wales will top nine million when the Greater Western Sydney Giants play Port Adelaide at Skoda Stadium this Sunday.

Last Week’s 11th annual SportAccord Convention held in Saint Petersburg’s , which attracted a record attendance for the event, was the setting for an important announcement by the International Olympic Committee, which revealed the shortlist of candidate sports for possible inclusion in the 2020 Summer Games at the event.

Great Big Events (GBE) has been appointed as the sports presentation partner for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow by the games’ organising committee.