SportBusiness Staff

ESPN.com and Student Advantage's FANSonly Network, the internet-based college sports network, are extending their relationship to expand coverage of college sports.

iSport.com a global sports media company providing internet based sports administration and communication services, has acquired Britsport.com Ltd.

VTV, recently-acquired by UK-based The Television Corporation and now part of Sunset+Vine, has won a new four year contract to produce and distribute coverage of English badminton until 2005.

Turkish sport marketing agency Sar-an International has added to its soccer portfolio after signing an exclusive TV deal with soccer club Gaziantepspor.

NBC/Quokka Ventures, a joint venture of NBC and Quokka Sports, has launched USOlympicstore.com.

Fred Fried has been appointed marketing division president for SFX's Sports Group.

The mayor of the Belgian port city of Antwerp has banned late evening soccer matches where there are risks of hooliganism.

Leading Olympic figure Dick Pound has criticised the reduction of a ban on Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor who tested positive for cocaine.

The Irish Football Association has won unanimous approval from the South Dublin County Council (SDCC) for planning permission to build the new home for Irish soccer, Eircom Park.

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that Athens has made progress in putting its troubled plans to stage the 2004 Olympics back on track but warned that time was tight.