SECRET SYDNEY CONTRACTS TO GO PUBLIC
The Australian state of New South Wales has said it will publish key 2000 Olympic Games contracts that had been kept secret for years.
AFL SIGN NEW BROADCAST DEAL WITH CONSORTIUM
The Australian Football League (AFL) has confirmed that the proposal by a consortium consisting of News Limited, Channels 9 and 10 and Foxtel for the broadcast rights for AFL football from 2002 had been accepted.
MEDIA UNIMPRESSED BY SAMARANCH CHARM OFFENSIVE
A charm offensive launched by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch in the wake of the Olympic bribery scandal has failed to stave off venomous editorials in European newspapers saying he must quit his post.
RED SOX LOOK FOR NEW FENWAY PARK REVISIONS
The Boston Red Sox are planning changes in legislation drawn up over its new $660m stadium in a bid to make it easier to secure private funding.
MURDOCH ITALIAN SOCCER OFFER DUE NEXT MONTH
News Corp Europe, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire, is set to make a formal offer for Italian television soccer rights by the end of February, chairman Letizia Moratti has announced.
FLORIDA MARLINS IN DEAL FOR $385 MILLION BALLPARK
The Florida Marlins and local politicians have finalised a plan to fund and build a $385-million, retractable-roof ballpark to keep the Major League baseball team in south Florida, officials said Sunday.
NEW PREMIER LEAGUE PROBE LAUNCHED
England's Premier League has again come under the scrutiny of Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over moves it allegedly made last year to head off a threatened breakaway by leading clubs.
SPORTS CHANNEL SCOOPS TRIO OF PRIZES
Singapore?s free-to-air sports channel SportsCity has won a hat-trick of prizes in their first year of broadcasting.
THREE SPLASH FOR SWIMMING SUCCESS
Barcelona, Long Beach and Montreal have applied to stage the 2003 world long-course swimming championships, the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) has said.
RACE DIRECTOR QUITS AFTER CORONER?S REPORT
The director of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race has stepped down after an adverse finding by a coroner into the storm-swept 1998 race in which six people died.