Americas

A Major League Baseball committee report suggesting that the all the league's teams share 40-50 percent of their local revenue is likely to receive a cool reaction from the New York Yankees.

The athletes' village for the Sydney Olympics, with a dining area to serve 5,000 people at one sitting, has been acclaimed by Australian Games officials as the best ever.

Ticketmaster, has signed a multi-year, exclusive ticketing agreements with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen?s owned or operated sports teams and venues.

Ice hockey fans at Bratislava's ice hockey stadium saw two exhibition matches last weekend involving stars from the NHL and Europe.

The driving force behind one of the most successful franchises in professional sports history has resigned from his post after forty years service to the club.

The United States Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake Organising Committee announced have named Korbel Champagne Cellars as an Official Supporter of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 U.S. Olympic Teams and the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter emerged triumphantly from his organisation's biennial Congress on Saturday only to find the fragile unity of world soccer's governing body crumbling badly around him.

A New York/New Jersey-based team will be one of eight scheduled teams to kick off the inaugural season-of the XFL, the new professional football league jointly owned by World Wrestling Federation Entertainment and NBC.

The introduction of ?Saturday Night Live? comedian Dennis Miller to ABC?s coverage of "Monday Night Football" has backfired.

Most of the planet's inhabitants who have access to a television set will be watching the Sydney Olympics, according to viewing projections released by the IOC.

The 2001 general assembly of the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) is to be hosted by the American Horse Shows Association in San Francisco, California.

Venture capitalists, Biofarm (BIOF), have offered to exchange shares of a new BIOF subsidiary for 100% of stock in a new corporation to be formed by Continental Sports Management (CSM), the Ohio-based, privately owned athlete representation agency with offices in New York City and London.

Radio station and billboard operator Clear Channel has completed its $4.6 billion acquisition of events promoter SFX Entertainment Inc., establishing it as a player in the live entertainment business.

Pakistan's Olympic hockey team have been offered cash incentives to win a medal at the Sydney Olympics.

New York City is to have two new minor league baseball stadiums built for next summer, thanks largely to the support of the baseball-loving Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Dan Patrick now has a signature platform on four different media with the launch this week of his own web site (http://espn.go.com/danpatrick/) to accompany his presence on ESPN, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Radio