Australia

The judicial commission investigating charges of betting and match-fixing in Pakistan cricket has been asked to look into the conduct of Pakistani players at the recent World Cup.

A threat by promoters to impose a financial penalty on English soccer giants Manchester United over the absence of manager Alex Ferguson and star player David Beckham during a tour of Australia have been dropped.

US ticket giant Ticketmaster is set to win the highly-prized ticketing contract for Australia's Colonial Stadium.

The US Tennis Association and American International Group (AIG), the US-based international insurance organisation, has signed a multi-year agreement to sponsor the US Davis Cup tennis team.

Manchester United have agreed to work with Australia's Woolmark Company and Umbro International, the club's official sportswear suppliers, to develop products incorporating trade-marked Sportwool technology.

UPS are to sponsor the US men's and women's water polo teams in the lead-up to the 2000 Olympic Games.

Two of Australia's oldest and most loved rugby league teams have agreed to merge to ensure their survival in next year's rationalised National Rugby League competition.

The offer for Australian citizens to order tickets for the Sydney Olympics closes tonight.

A U.S. company contracted to provide bands for Sydney's 2000 Olympics is suing the Games' organisers for giving the firm its marching orders.

An Australian fabric manufacturer is reported to have signed Manchester UNited to launch its Sportswool brand internationally.

Central Sydney will become the "party capital of the world" with an estimated 8.2 million visitors expected during the 2000 Olympic Games, Australia's Olympics minister, Michael Knight, has said.

Sydney's scandal-weary Olympics organisers had some good news this weekend - Australians are buying tickets to see the 2000 Games.

Applications for tickets to the Sydney 2000 Olympics have surpassed initial sales for the last Games in Atlanta and exceeded even local expectations, the Games organising authority has said.

A host of major international sporting events are being wooed by bosses of Australia's Dockland's Colonial Stadium.

The Brisbane Broncos, the leading Australian Rugby League team which is 40% owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd, has become a buy-out target for Sydney businessman, John Singleton.

The competition manager for cycling at next year's Sydney Olympics Ray Godkin says the drugs controversy enveloping the sport is being felt in Australia.