Latin America

Galaxy Latin America, the company that provides the DirecTV service to Latin America and the Caribbean, has named Jeffrey Whalen as vice president of market planning and management.

Television sales and marketing executive Jorge Enrique Berthely Noguera has joined ESPN International in the new position of affiliate sales director, based in Mexico City.

ESPN International has appointed Berthely Noguera, a television sales and marketing executive with 14 years experience in Mexico, to the new position of affiliate sales director in Mexico City.

Colts star Peyton Manning has become the first NFL player to launch a web site in English and Spanish.

Nearly 500 Special Olympics professionals, leaders, volunteers and friends from the Unites States, Mexico and Canada will gather in Kansas City, August 16-19, for the Special Olympics 2000 North America Conference.

SportsYA! (www.sportsya.com), the Spanish-and Portuguese-language sports portal serving Latin American, Spain and U.S. Hispanic markets, has appointed Hugo Sanchez, the most widely recognized player in the history of Mexican soccer, as brand representative and e-columnist.

The Extreme Sports Channel has signed a deal with Eurosport for the broadcast of the Tissot / UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2000.

In twin announcements in London and Berlin, officials of the CART FedEx Championship Series announced the debut of Champ Cars on ovals in Britain and Germany in September 2001.

Internetsoccer.com is rapidly expanding its content offering in the Pacific Rim, Central America and Africa.

Monterrey, Mexico?s third largest city, will host a CART FedEx Championship Series event in 2001.

The BBC has struck a deal with the US channel TrackPower Inc, giving them the rights to rebroadcast the BBC?s coverage of horseracing at Ascot, Goodwood, Newbury and Haydock racetracks throughout this year.

Switzerland's Denis Oswald has promised a new era of democracy after replacing Primo Nebiolo as president of the Association of Summer Olympic Sports Federations (ASOIF).

Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos appears to be striking out in his bid to use the baseball diamond as common ground for a thawing in US-Cuban relations, baseball sources have revealed.

Hundreds of Cuban exiles will protest when the Baltimore Orioles host a Cuban national team May 3 in a historic baseball series between teams from longtime political foes the United States and Cuba.

Cuba has announced its intention to bid for the Olympic Games in 2008.

The Malaysian Hockey Federation (MHF) is hoping to raise US$3 million (?3.29m) in sponsorship for the 2002 World Cup.