SportBusiness Staff

Darlington Raceway has ended the second-longest continuing sponsorship in NASCAR history with the renaming of the TranSouth 400 to the Mall.com 400.

The organisers of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City may have to pay property tax to three counties in Utah if they want to host venues there in February.

CSI has gained $22.4 million in new capital through the addition of Microsoft Corp. and Axalon Ventures as shareholders and an increase in Intel Capital's investment. Williams Communications, founder of ChoiceSeat and its sole investor until last year, retains its current investment level in CSI.

MTG, the Scandinavian media company, has bought 17% of the share capital of Stockholm-based soccer club Djurgaarden, worth SKr7m ($781,000), according to news sources.

Media Content Plc, a sports media rights consultancy whose clients have included the World Wrestling Federation, has bought a stake in a company planning to broadcast sports over the Internet.

The Australian Olympic Committee members may be getting big pay rises this year to reward them for the ?best ever Olympic games?, but Stadium Australia Group, the builders of the A$690m ($351.7m) Aussie national stadium, has seen its share price tumble since the end of the games to A$0.10 ($0.05) from A$0.5 ($0.3).

Belgium's interior minister has said he was satisfied with security measures at the Charleroi stadium, to be used during the Euro 2000 soccer finals, despite police fears that it was unsafe.

Meetings between Texas Motor Speedway general manager Eddie Gossage and CART chief executive officer Joe Heitzler have yet to produce any decisions about the Firestone Firehawk 600.

Larry Dolan has moved a step closer to completing his acquisition of the Cleveland Indians, following a special meeting of Indians? shareholders.

Tailwind Sports, the agency that owns and manages Lance Armstrong's professional US cycling team, has signed a three-year extension to keep the United States Postal Service as its title sponsor.