Middle East
Stadia

Emirates Airline is to sponsor the London and Wales rugby union World Sevens Series this season. The airline will fly in the 16 competing teams to play in the event on May 27 and 28 at the Stoop Memorial Ground and Twickenham in London and at Rodney Parade, Newport and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on June 2 and 3.
Business

Dubai's Emirates airline has dismissed any suggestion it will pull out of its sponsorship of English soccer club Chelsea after it failed to qualify for Europe.

Two investigators from the International Cricket Council (ICC) were flying to Sharjah today to continue enquiries into match-fixing.

Three Australasian race horses have been ordered into quarantine immediately on return to Australia from the Dubai World Cup race meeting amid foot-and-mouth disease fears.
Media

The United Arab Emirates minister of information and culture has called on the UAE Football Association to implement professionalism in UAE soccer.
Business

The opening leg of the UIM Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, will be used as a benchmark for other venues of the 14-round UIM world championship
Business

IMG has opened its first office in the Middle East, based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

Online ticket company ts.com has scooped the award of `best application service provider? at a Euro-wide award ceremony.
Business

Ken Bates, chairman of London soccer club Chelsea, has defended ticket prices for the new West Stand at Stamford Bridge where fans could pay #197 ($287) per match next season.
Business

Tim Clarke, chief director airline, Air Emirates, the new $36million shirt sponsors of Premier League club Chelsea, has told sportbusiness.com why the west London club was chosen as ?one of the cornerstones of the Emirates global portfolio of sponsorships?
Business

London Premier League club Chelsea confirmed they had signed a four-year deal with Dubai-based airline Emirates worth #24 million ($35 million).

The Dubai World Cup and online ticketing firm ts.com have teamed up to enable tickets for the 2001 race to be sold online via the World Cup?s official website.
Business

English football club Chelsea is on the verge securing an #18million ($26m), three-year deal with leading airline Emirates, which would be the second-biggest shirt sponsorship in football.
Business

Many of snooker?s top stars look set to join a breakaway tour which threatens to split the sport and end the domination of the game by its governing body, the WSA, following plans announced by The Sportsmasters Network (TSN).

English rugby?s ongoing internal dispute threatens to diminish the England side?s chances of success at the World Sevens Series to be held in Dubai and Durban later this month.

Dubai World Cup racing organisers have raised the prize money for the 2001 event to $15.25 million from $12 million offered in 2000.
Events

The season-ending championships of the WTA Tour, a fixture in New York for 29 years, will be moved to Munich, Germany, beginning next year.

World number one golfer Tiger Woods has agreed to play in the Dubai Desert Classic next March.