Germany

Africa should host a soccer World Cup but not the 2006 tournament, said Franz Beckenbauer, who is leading Germany's bid to stage the event.

Brazil has told Asian nations that its bid for the 2006 World Cup combined passion and organisation and it deserved to host the tournament.

Brazil has told Asian nations that its bid for the 2006 World Cup combined passion and organisation and it deserved to host the tournament.

Internet portal Sportal has launched its first TV advertising campaign ? due to run until Euro 2000.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said the 2006 Word Cup finals should go to Africa if one of the continent's two bidding countries can meet all the conditions required to stage the event.

European Gridiron football received a boost with the latest attendance figures from NFL Europe.

The trial of senior East German sports official Manfred Ewald, accused of playing a leading role in the communist state's systematic doping policy, opened today.

The German Football Federation (DFB) has unveiled a set of reforms aimed at boosting the country's ailing professional game.

CART has recorded a rise in revenues and net income in its first quarter financial results.

The campaign team behind South Africa's bid to host the 2006 World Cup will end its global charm offensive in the coming week with visits to Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

A new annual international sports awards ceremony will be inaugurated in Monaco on May 25. The Laureus Sports Awards, will be hosted by stars of the entertainment world such as Jeff Bridges, Ashley Judd and Dylan McDermott and will broadcast to a hoped-for global audience of 1 billion viewers.

Germany's breweries say they are counting on the televised spectacles of the Olympic Games and the European soccer championship this summer to revive the country's traditional thirst for beer.

The eight European members of the 24-man FIFA executive committee could cast their votes for England?s World Cup 2006 bid en bloc if Germany is eliminated in the early rounds of voting.

Squash media and enthusiasts will be able to participate in the sport's first live worldwide interview with the world's leading women players - including England's world champion and world No1 Cassie Campion and Australia's former three-times world champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald - during the Com4Net Munich Open which gets underway in Germany today.

NHL International, in conjunction with ESPN International, will distribute the 2000 NHL

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) chief executive, Andrew Craig, has confirmed that the CART racing series is coming to Europe.