Latin America

Mexican baseball championship winning club Tigres, is to move from the capital city after 46 years and move to a new venue in Puebla.

TV Azteca, Mexico?s second largest broadcaster, has signed a deal with satellite TV platform Sky Mexico to allow the latter to broadcast 22 soccer matches from the country?s top division, to which TV Azteca owns the rights, over the next year.

Electronics giant Philips has become the fourteenth official partner of the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in Korea and Japan.
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European sports information provider Infostrada Sports and North American equivalent STATS have formed a strategic content and technology sharing alliance.

A new professional basketball league is being formed after the financial collapse of several teams in the International Basketball League.

The Football Association and the British Olympic Association are set for more discussions about entering a British football team in the Olympic Games.

Leading IOC member Jacques Rogge is poised to take over the most powerful job in world sport as IOC president in July, according to the results of a new survey.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) saw its first quarter 2001 revenue decrease by $1.4 million to $6.4m, in the first quarter of 2001, compared with the same time last year.

New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has signed a bill allowing Albuquerque to borrow money from the state to renovate a minor league baseball stadium or build a new facility, reports the Albuquerque Journal.

British Eurosport has secured live rights to this year?s CART FedEx Championship Series.

Canada said it might submit a bid to host the 2010 World Cup as a way of sending a message to the world that it was serious about one day hosting the world's premier soccer tournament.

The labour relations policy of Nike, the US sportswear giant, has come under fresh scrutiny following sacking of employees in one of the company?s manufacturing plants in Mexico.

Belgian Football Association President Michel D'Hooghe said on Monday he was resigning as chairman and executive committee member in June.

Virtual imaging firm Princeton Video Image, Inc. (PVI) is to produce a branded first-down line for the first time in the international live television feeds of Super Bowl XXXV.

The Mexican national soccer team has signed a partnership with US national Spanish-language television network Telemundo to broadcast all of Mexico's exhibition and official games.

The International Basketball League and ABA 2000 - two of professional US basketball's minor league's - are teaming up to create one minor basketball league.