SportBusiness Staff
Business

The UK is set to cash in on the gold-medal winning success of its athletes in Sydney.
Business

Doubts expressed by media buyers over Fox?s ability to recoup all of its $2.5 billion investment for its comprehensive six-year Major League Baseball TV and cable rights package have been answered by the company.
Business

Italian Serie A soccer club Udinese aims to float on the Milan bourse by the end of the year and is relying on its track record for training up young players and selling them at a profit to attract investors.
Events

Time Warner Communications, Columbus Division and online video service Sportscapsule have reached a partnership agreement which will allow communities served by Time Warner Columbus to create their own local sports videos to showcase on the internet.

European online sports content provider Sports.com has signed a joint business deal with Yourtown-today.com, the UK-based city and town branded portal network.
Stadia

Italian publisher and portal operator Seat Pagine Gialle has denied it is interested in buying soccer club Sampdoria.
Events

ESPN is to broadcast live coverage of a major golf tournament in Argentina later this year.

ESPN?s Simplemente Football weekly magazine programme is to feature an in-depth interview with the wayward Argentinean soccer legend Diego Maradona.
Stadia

NBC, whose television ratings for the Olympics fell short of expectations, may have partly made up for the disappointment by taking the gold medal for its internet coverage, beating out the official Olympics.com web site, initial data showed on Monday. For the full details see the `FEATURES? section of sportbusiness.com.

New Indiana Pacers coach Isiah Thomas will soon find out whether the NBA?s 29 owners will allow him to work at the team?s training camp, before his sale of the Continental Basketball Association is complete.