Americas

Daktronics, the US electronic scoreboard supplier, has been contracted to design and build a transportable display system for the New York Racing Association (NYRA).

Eurosport, the leading pan-European sports channel, has smashed a series of Olympic records following their continuous coverage of the Sydney Games.

Sports-finance experts have estimated that the 53 per cent stake in the Boston Red Sox, currently owned by the Yawkey Trust, could be worth as much as $300 million.

Octagon has strengthened its Hockey Division with the acquisition of Kelly Management Group (KMGI), the long-established North American hockey agency founded by Larry Kelly and based in Ottawa, Ontario.

The search begins in earnest this week for a new owner of Major League Baseball team the Boston Red Sox.

Baseball may be one of the big four US sports, but it is being easily beaten by politics in the battle for ratings.

SFX Sports Group UK players? agent Jon Holmes has told Europe?s biggest soccer clubs that their objections against an EU ban on transfer fees are based on self-interest, rather than protection of smaller clubs.

Pro Player Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins and the Florida Marlins, has added two new professionals to the management staff.

Eurosport is celebrating its highest ever viewing ratings, after pulling in 120m viewers for its Olympics coverage.

Major League Baseball has named FCB San Francisco as the agency to handle all integrated advertising communications activities for the upcoming 2001 baseball season.

An attempt to beat the NFL on-site paid attendance record failed earlier this week.

The president of World Sports, Patti Wheeler, has resigned following the decision of Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks to cease production operations at the World Sports Enterprises unit December 1- the date that World Sports' contract with Nascar expires.

The World Wrestling Federation has filed a New York City Federal Court lawsuit against the William Morris Agency, which claims that the fees Morris is demanding from the WWF are not justified.

Major League Baseball attracted a record 72,748,970 fans this year and the average attendance topped 30,000 for the first time since the 1994-95 strike.

The head of utilities, telecoms and media giant Vivendi has ruled out bidding for U.S. broadcaster DirecTV, but reiterated he would welcome a partnership with media magnate Rupert Murdoch -- seen as one of DirecTV's suitors.

Two U.S. professors said they have won gold with a study predicting Olympic medal totals for different countries based on economic rather than athletic models.