Mexico

South American football rights and marketing company Traffic is claiming that Brazil will replace Columbia as hosts of the troubled Copa America soccer tournament.

South American soccer rights and marketing company Traffic says it will lose $10million from the postponement of the Copa America tournament, which will now be played next year.

The NFL is planning a pre-season game in Mexico on August 27 when the Dallas Cowboys will meet the Oakland Raiders.

Colombia is engaged in an intense counter offensive to reclaim the Copa America soccer tournament for this month and avoid a major economic disaster.

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.

The Copa America outstripped the Superbowl and World Series amongst American Hispanics according to research out on Sunday.

Argentine cycling is facing a cash crisis with the national cycling federation unable to afford to send a team to the World Cup which gets underway in Mexico on Friday.

A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official has said he expected the Games to be held in Africa in the next 10 years.

A new, independent study comparing the effect of virtual advertising and conventional arena advertising on viewers of televised sports reveals that TV audiences had better recall and greater brand recognition with virtual ads.

The president of the Colombian soccer federation (FCF), Fina Alvaro has dclared he has the support from FIFA for a 16-team Copa America in 2001 in Colombia, according to the soccer industry newsletter Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

Brazil face a possible World Cup knockout blow from FIFA if found guilty of knowingly fielding over-age players in official competitions.

Brazil will not be suspended from the next World Cup even if found guilty of fielding over-age players in a youth tournament, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said.

Fox Sports World and Fox Sports World Espanol will televise delayed coverage of the Football Confederation Gold Cup 2000 tournament to viewers across the United States and Puerto Rico in February 2000.

Championship Auto Racing Teams has entered into a three-year agreement with fuel supplier elf Race Fuels and its exclusive agent in the U.S. and Mexico, Competition Fuels, Inc. to become the Official Fuel Supplier for the FedEx Championship Series.

The Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), a new, 24-hour, all sports cable and satellite digital television network directed at sports fans throughout Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, will debut on Tuesday, February 15 with the live, exclusive broadcast of Copa Libertadores, the region's most important football event.

An IOC report says preliminary results indicate that the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, were broadcast in more countries than ever before and that the global cumulative audience is likely to equal Lillehammer's record??.