Australia

FILA Australia is under investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over the distribution of its official AFL products.

South African sports brand marketing company SAIL has notified the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange of discussions with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to form a commercial partnership in line with SAIL?s strategy of expanding into international sports brands.

The Olympic Games have become so big they risk pressuring host cities into building big facilities that become "white elephants" once the athletes have packed up their medals and gone home, the new head of International Olympics has said.

The sport employment market continues to show strong growth in Australia, with the number of general positions vacant reaching a five-year high in 2000/2001, up a massive 31 percent from the previous year, a new report shows.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has bought up all the outdoor advertising space in Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games which will be held there in 2008 in an attempt to limit the commercialisation of the event.

Athletics world governing body, the IAAF claims the US team took an athlete to the Sydney Olympic Games who had tested positive for a banned drug.

Insurance firm AMP has scooped two top sponsorship awards for its Sydney Olympic Games programme.
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Troubled internet company Sportal is expected to win a contract to build new Australian Football League (AFL) websites for Telstra.

Australia?s Nine Network will be the official broadcaster for the Tennis Masters Cup which will be held in Sydney from November 12-18 at the Sydney SuperDome.

Yorkshire cricket greats Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott and Ray Illingworth are considering snubbing the opening of Headingley's new stand because they are angry that former British Prime Minister John Major has been asked to perform the ceremony.

War veterans complained on Friday that the new "Diggers" nickname given to Australia's world championship team in Edmonton, Canada, was inappropriate.

Football's world governing body FIFA has ruled out the possibility of Rangers and Celtic joining the FA Premier League.

A man is suing Sydney's Olympic Games organisers for more than A$19m ($9.6m/?11m) claiming they breached their contract allowing him to sell memberships to an Olympic loyalty programme.

The late Don Bradman's son John and the Bradman Foundation have appealed for people to stop profiting from the sale of the cricket legend's letters.

UK terrestrial and pay-TV broadcaster ITV has secured the rights to the next two Rugby World Cups in a six-year deal with the International Rugby Board (IRB).

Olympic boss Jacques Rogge is confident swimming's governing body FINA will agree to start testing for erythropoietin (EPO), one of the most dangerous banned drugs in sport.