SportBusiness Staff

English county cricket club Kent has appointed Jon Fordham as its head of marketing.

In a few months' time Britain's Rockingham Motor Speedway will emerge from the mud and debris littering the construction site, ready for the first international race meeting set for late May 2001.

England players face an 1100 GMT ultimatum today to stop their strike over pay and turn up for training with coach Clive Woodward or be dropped for Saturday's international against Argentina.

Copyright Promotions Licensing Group (CPLG), the UK-based entertainment, sports and brand licensing agency, has appointed Martin Lines as Director of Brands.

China is contemplating throwing Tiananmen Square - mostly known to the outside world for the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators - into its 2008 Olympic bid as the venue for beach volleyball.

London and Hong Kong-based international sports marketing group World Sports Group has won the sponsorship and broadcasting rights for cricket matches in Sri Lanka for three years, the local cricket board said.

The Meadowlands Racetrack, owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, experienced a decrease in attendance and betting during the thoroughbred season

A new sports marketing company, headed by Stephen Pearson, formerly marketing director of TEAM AG and commercial director of the English Premier League, has been launched to develop the market for sports venue naming rights in Europe.

Former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has been granted permission to fight again in lucrative Las Vegas.

A race for the media rights to British horse racing has neared the finish as the UK's racecourse body met to pick a winner today to take the spoils of what is expected to be a lucrative interactive TV market.