Mexico

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

CART has cancelled its March 25 race in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , after being unable to resolve a dispute with city officials.

Sky, one of the two direct-to-home services available in Latin America, has finally launched its service in Argentina.

Internet portal SportsYA.com has launched an interactive sports TV programme with Argentine TV network Azul TV.

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.

Digital satellite television service provider DirecTV Inc. said on Tuesday it bought the Latin American broadcast rights to the World Cup soccer competition in 2002 and 2006 in a deal valued at $400 million.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA said on Sunday it was open to the idea of sponsors names on national team shirts but insisted they would not be allowed at the 2002 World Cup. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the association's executive had discussed the idea at an end-of-year meeting in Rome but wanted to examine it further before making a decision.

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.

The Arena Football League (AFL) board of directors has approved the relocation of the Albany Firebirds from Albany, N.Y., to Indianapolis.

Commercial broadcast coverage of the Sydney Olympic Games in Mexico has been dominated by TV Azteca over it rival company Televisa.

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.