SportBusiness Staff

Organisers of the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City are planning to sell 100 tickets for about five times their face value on the auction house web site eBay.

NBA players are set to be hit with a new 10 per cent tax on their wages.

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch and the President of the Mizuno Corporation, Masato Mizuno signed a long-term agreement taking the partnership between the two organisations up to the 2008 Olympic Games.

A UK-based galvanisng company has won a contract to create the seating structure for a national football stadium in the remote Faeroe Islands.

Athletes, officials and visitors will eat about 11.5 million meals during the 2004 Olympic Games, dining on 300 tons of vegetables and fruits, 85 tons of seafood and 20 tons of eggs, Athens organizers said Friday.

Golf Entertainment has launched GolfBZ.com, an internet business to business resource for golf course, golf range and related manufacturing, apparel, equipment and accessory companies within the golf industry.

The XFL dream has died after World Wrestling Federation Entertainment said it was pulling the plug on the competition ? just four months after the first game was broadcast.

Hussey Seating Company and Seiko Epsom Corp, the global technology company, are to co-develop `an interactive media seating solution? for the sports industry.

Kirch, Germany?s second-biggest media company, has agreed to sell some broadcast rights for the 2002 and 2006 soccer World Cups to Germany?s two state-owned channels ARD and ZDF for a reported $115 million.

Golden Bear Golf, Inc. has completed its ?going private? merger with its wholly-owned subsidiary, G.B. Golf Corp.