A floating basketball court carrying 26 people broke free off Cebu on Thursday evening and drifted towards a busy ferry lane before fishing boats and a patrol launch brought everyone ashore. The rescue has prompted fury over how an event billed as a sporting spectacle was allowed to put players and officials on a platform with a disputed mooring plan.
A scientific paper has prompted the Pacific Va’a Council to announce a 42km (26-mile) outrigger canoe race around Fiji’s Ovalau island next year. The plan also gives island federations four voting seats on the council’s executive, a shift that could reshape who sets the sport’s rules.
A product recall has thrown South Korea’s professional baseball season into an extraordinary statistical limbo after scans found tracking capsules lodged off-centre inside thousands of balls. The league has frozen data from 22 games while it checks whether a batch fault created phantom pitch speeds and movement readings.
A High Court judgment has upended the governance of Ireland’s fictional Éire League Council, restoring voting rights to 42 clubs and forcing its six-person board to step aside. The council says the top two divisions will continue, but a fresh election must be held within six weeks.
A catcher’s helmet split during a Balkan league game, prompting an urgent recall of 2,640 units sold to clubs and shops across the region. Four fixtures have been suspended as officials investigate how the equipment passed inspection.
A faulty scoreboard declared a 7-0 winner in a Mamelodi football final that was still tied, sending players and supporters into a moment of bewilderment. Officials switched to handwritten records, restarted the match and watched the underdogs take the cup on penalties.
A Brussels commercial court has ordered a broadcaster to hand 16 Belgian football clubs copies of 13 seasons of match footage, ending a dispute that left teams unable to access their own archives. Retired television director Dieter Ebermann says the ruling could return more than goals to clubs: it could restore the missing parts of their history.
A proposed A$240 million merger would put four metropolitan franchises in control of Australia’s largest rugby union network, leaving 62 district associations with two board seats. Regional officials say the deal’s player count is wrong and are demanding a place at the final vote.
The first race of a heavily promoted international running circuit finished with a surprise: its course was more than a kilometre too short. Organisers have withdrawn the official results after runners and a route measurer retraced the missing section.
A tea seller spotted a white crease emerging from a rain-scoured patch at a Dhaka sports ground, leading workers to a complete cricket pitch buried beneath its football training field. The find has halted a Tk 286 million renovation and sent officials searching for records of how the old pitch came to be covered.
A neighbourhood campaign to fix a worn cricket ground has uncovered a 28-year-old savings account naming a local club as beneficiary. Now a relative’s challenge has frozen the Tk 34.6 million (about €235,000) payout and put the club’s place in a district tournament at risk.
A Vietnamese football club has sued a stadium operator after nine players lost their footing on a treated artificial pitch and a national cup tie was abandoned. The claim says a citrus-based cleaner left a slick residue; the operator says it followed the product instructions.