New Zealand

New Zealand television production firm On Site Broadcasting (OSB) has signed a five-year domestic contract to handle all satellite broadcaster BSkyB?s coverage of sporting events in the country.

New Zealand rugby union officials have threatened to block the addition of a fourth Australian team to an expanded Super 12 series next year.

UK terrestrial and pay-TV broadcaster ITV has secured the rights to the next two Rugby World Cups in a six-year deal with the International Rugby Board (IRB).

New Zealand pay television operator Sky Network Television Ltd has named private broadcaster TV3 as Sky's free-to-air broadcast partner for rugby union and cricket for the 2001/02 season.

English rugby finally seems to have ended the war between the governing body and the clubs after agreeing an eight-year-plan in London on Tuesday.

England's top rugby union players, clubs and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) "are all going to live and die together", the RFU's chief executive Francis Baron said at Twickenham today when he outlined the terms of a new eight-year agreement for the sport.

India have withdrawn from a three-match, one-day cricket series against world champions Australia scheduled for September, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said on Thursday.

Matches in a triangular one-day cricket tournament involving India, New Zealand and hosts Sri Lanka to be held in the central city of Dambulla have been shifted to Colombo due to a money dispute, the Sri Lankan cricket chief said on Thursday.

Australia rejected on Tuesday a newspaper report that Australia and New Zealand might lose the 2003 World Cup to France because of arguments with the International Rugby Board (IRB) over TV rights and profits.

Australia and New Zealand may lose the 2003 World Cup to France because of arguments with the International Rugby Board (IRB) over television rights and profits, according to media reports.

The Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitas has failed to persuade Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond to surrender his Australian citizenship for a Greek one in time for the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

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.

Legal battles that have left Sri Lanka's cricket board in financial limbo will not affect tours by India and New Zealand this summer, a top sports official has said.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a three-year extension to its current television contracts with terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 and pay-TV channel Sky Sports.

Sri Lankan cricket is in financial limbo after a court issued an order preventing the newly appointed interim administration from operating the cricket board's bank accounts.

The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) has agreed a new five-year sponsorship deal with Ansett Australia, the country's second-largest airline.