SportBusiness Staff
Events

Battery firm Energizer has signed a deal to become an international partner of the European Athletic Association Programme of Championship events 2000-2003.
Business

India's cricket board will announce late on Tuesday the fate of five cricketers found guilty of match-fixing, an official in board president A.C. Mutiah's office said.
Media

German media giant Kirch and media group EM.TV & Merchandising could raise $1 billion to exercise an option to buy a further 25 percent stake in Formula One holding SLEC, Kirch vice president Dieter Hahn has said.
Business

Greek Olympic chief Gianna Angelopoulos said on Monday that the sudden resignation of her number two would not upset the Athens 2004 Games preparations.
Events

The concluding session of the first day of the IOC Sports and New Media conference re-emphasised the key values of rights exclusivity, but according to Christopher Murray, Chairman of the Entertainment & Technology Dept of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles: "The web has so radically changed the dynamics of publishing, that with one keystroke anyone can download a CD or video and become a pirate".
Sponsorship & Marketing

UFA SPORTS has extended its existing contract with the Croatian Football Association until the year 2008.
Business

Soccer players in Singapore may face lie-detector tests next year as the local league battles to stamp out match-fixing and restore the confidence of bettors.
Business

America's Cup holders, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, accepted the Swiss challenge for yachting's biggest prize on Monday after a month of legal wrangling.
Business

Britain's Sun newspaper launched an appeal in court on Monday against an award of #85,000 ($123,300) damages to former Liverpool and Southampton goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar.
Business

CART has appointed a new president and CEO.