Mexico
Events

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.
Business

Electronics giant Philips has become the fourteenth official partner of the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in Korea and Japan.
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Business

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.
Sponsorship & Marketing

European sports information provider Infostrada Sports and North American equivalent STATS have formed a strategic content and technology sharing alliance.
Business

FIFA president Joseph Blatter praised a successful Copa America on Friday even though chaotic organisation caused most countries to send reserve teams and favourites Argentina to pull out altogether.
Business

South American Football Confederation (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz, whose organisation staged the Copa America at only six days' notice, says his dream is for every country in the Americas to take part in the future.
Events

Latin American pay-TV sports network PSN is to broadcast more than 100 matches from two of the region?s soccer tournaments ? the Copa Mercosur and the Copa Merconorte.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Sports rights marketing company Traffic has expressed dismay at poor ticket sales for the first two quarter-finals of the controversial Copa America.

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

France stayed ahead of Brazil atop of the FIFA world soccer rankings for a third straight month, while Germany climbed three places to fifth.

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

A mystery bombing campaign means Colombia could lose South America's biggest soccer tournament and deal a blow to President Andres Pastrana's attempts to show progress in his quest for peace.
Business

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.
Stadia

Colombia could lose South American soccer tournament the Copa America if there is another bomb blast, organisers have admitted.
Business

More than a dozen countries have declared an interest in hosting either of the next two editions of the World Club Championship, FIFA said on Thursday.
Business

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.
Business

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.
Business

Chile are to press ahead with a planned bid to host the 2010 World Cup, having described a proposed rival candidature from Brazil as "pathetic".