Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Brisbane Capital Corp is to purchase the shares of Eventco, the Californian sports entertainment company wholly owned by Leon Hatcher.

After a campaign which will be remembered for human rights demonstrations and a few ill-chosen words about cannibalism, Olympic chiefs will decide the venue of the 2008 Summer Games this week at what is expected to be an historic meeting.

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

Edward O'Hara and Gregory Economou, the two principals of brand identity development company, SME Power Branding, have separated from the SFX Sports Group, which acquired the company in 1999.

Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.

Sports Minister Richard Caborn has promised that the UK will demonstrate it is capable of hosting the Olympics in case the Government bids to bring the Games to Britain in 2012.

Global sports media company iSport has confirmed to sportbusiness.com it is on the verge of a major merger.

The Continental Basketball Association - the longest-standing professional basketball league in the world - will today announce its relaunch in the US and Canada.

Molson Inc., Canada's oldest brewer, has said it will keep its underperforming National Hockey League team, the Montreal Canadiens, but will consider selling its other sports and entertainment assets.

China has set up a 76-member committee to organise Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games.

After almost 70 years and a scores of Stanley Cups, the owners of the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs have put the venerable Maple Leaf Gardens, home to the local hockey club for more than 67 years, on the auction block.

Wasim Akram has been reinstated as Pakistan cricket captain after being given the all-clear following a judge's inquiry into match-fixing.

The NHL is willing to join forces with provincial lottery corporations to help keep the six Canadian-based teams in Canada. The proposal is in line with the NHL's commitment to maintaining a ?healthy and viable presence in Canada? amid fears that some teams may fold without government help.

A record $1 billion-plus could be the price of admission to the NFL for its 32nd team.

An agreement has been reached between the current owners of the Vancouver Grizzlies NBA team to sell the club to Paige Sports Entertainment, the new pro sports business owned by Bill and Nancy Laurie, purchasers of the St. Louis Blues NHL hockey team.

NBA Commissioner David J. Stern is to announce at the 1999 NBA League Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, that the league is launching NBA.com TV ? a new 24-hour television network ? on Tuesday, Nov. 2.

Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp., has bought six George Brown fitness centres in Fresno, California and one club in the San Francisco area, expanding the fitness company's presence in California.

Some of Russia's top sports figures abroad will be made to pay taxes back home if the country's new sports supremo has his way.