Americas
IOC OFFICIALS ACCUSE U.S. OF DOPING COVER-UPS
International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials have accused the United States of covering up doping cases among U.S. athletes for more than a decade.
YANKEES MOVE OUT OF BRONX HITS STUMBLING BLOCK
New York Gov. George Pataki has balked at letting the Yankees baseball team quit their fabled home in the Bronx and move into a gargantuan new stadium which the mayor of New York City wants to build on Manhattan's West Side.
GIANTS RETURF DAMAGED PITCH
The New York Giants have replaced the centre section of its new grass field, prior to Sunday night?s game against the Washington Redskins.
INTERNET EXEC JOINS ONLINE SPORTS AWARD TEAM
The Atlanta Sports Council has appointed Wain Kellum, CEO of e-business solution provider Extreme Logic, to the executive board of the first annual Horizon Awards set up to honour leaders and innovators in sports business and web sports.
MONTANA BACKS $150 MILLION PRO ATHLETES FUND
A Silicon Valley venture capital firm which helps professional athletes channel cash into high-tech investments has raised an additional $150 million in financing and signed up football great Joe Montana as a general partner.
MSG AND YANKEES EXTEND DEADLINE
Negotiations between the New York Yankees and Madison Square Garden Network (MSG) over a new broadcast contract have been postponed beyond the deadline set by the two parties for the beginning of this week.
NBC PULLS NIKE AD
NBC, responding to viewer complaints, has dropped a commercial for Nike sports shoes and clothing featuring a female Olympic runner being pursued by a chain saw-wielding man.
ROSE BOWL GETS THE HOLLYWOOD TREATMENT
The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is to play host to the Hollywood premier of a new film revolving around American football.
TIGER WOODS RIVALS JORDAN, RUTH AS ENDORSER
Tiger Woods, who last week extended his marketing tie with sports gear giant Nike in one of the biggest endorsement packages ever, may surpass Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan or Pele as a celebrity endorser.
F1 MAKES LONG-AWAITED RETURN TO THE ‘BRICKYARD’
The world championship returns to "the brickyard" for the first time for 40 years on Sunday.
INTERNET HITS SOAR AMID OLYMPIC FEVER
The official website of the Sydney Games is currently in gold medal position on the information superhighway, said Nielsen NetRatings, a company which monitors internet hits.
NO FAST BUCKS FOR TOUTS AT RECORD GAMES
Ticket touts have flown into Sydney from around the world but their hopes of making a fast buck from the Olympics have been dashed.
SYDNEY TRANSPORT WOES CONTINUE ? NOW TROOPS CALLED IN
With only hours to go before the start of the millennium Olympics, troops were called in to combat chronic transport problems dogging the Games, but Aboriginal protests fizzled out.
KROCH SHARES SOLD TO OWNERS OF REDS
Shares in Major League Baseball team the Cincinnati Reds, owned by Carl A Kroch, who died last year, have been bought by the club?s owners.
OLYMPIC BROADCAST BONANZA
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games broadcast is expected to shatter the marks set by the Atlanta 1996 Olympic broadcast in nearly all areas. As such, it will be the largest and most watched sports event broadcast in history. See the `FEATURES? section of SportBusiness.com for the full story.
EU WELCOMES SOLUTION TO OLYMPICS TV RIGHTS ROW
The European Union has welcomed the settlement of a row over foreign television access to the Sydney Olympics.
NEW SOCCER LEAGUE CHIEF NAMED
Sports marketing executive Steve Ryan has been named commissioner of the National Professional Soccer League.
GAMES ORGANISERS CONFIDENT OF TICKET RECORD
Sydney Games organisers are putting their money on hitting an Olympic record for ticket sales, even before the opening ceremony on Friday.