New Zealand
Stadia

Cricket?s governing body has given New Zealand the go-ahead to use a portable pitch for international one-day matches, New Zealand Cricket has announced.
Business

One of sport's biggest backers, Ansett Australia, the second-largest domestic airline Down-Under, has shut down its operations with immediate effect, leaving passengers stranded at airports and the sports industry in the region in chaos.
Events

The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has angrily dismissed a rumour predicting the 2003 Rugby World Cup could be shifted from Australia and New Zealand to Europe.
Business

Officials in Australia have warned that the country’s sport industry would be thrown into chaos if the nation’s second largest airline Ansett Australia collapses after months of financial ruin.
Business

New Zealand has cancelled its forthcoming three-test tour of Pakistan because of the US terror attacks.
Business

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Business

International sports leaders like to pretend to others, if not themselves, that sport is blissfully removed from politics.
Business

Australia will reduce their National Soccer League (NSL) from 16 clubs to 12 next season, Soccer Australia (SA) announced on Monday.
Business

Australian soccer teams the Brisbane Strikers and Canberra Cosmos have vowed to take legal action over their axing from the National Soccer League.
Business

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.
Business

The sacked president of Sri Lanka's cricket board was granted bail on Monday as police sought his arrest over fraud allegations that have plagued the game in the country.
Business

Attheraces, the new name for the Go Racing consortium backed by Arena Leisure, BSkyB and Carlton Communications, has appointed three additional members of the senior management team to supplement last month’s recruitment of marketing director Gavin Bisdee.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is monitoring unrest in Zimbabwe which could threaten England's tour of the country.
Business

New Zealand-based venture capital firm IT Capital (ITC) has updated investors on the fortunes of its investment portfolio, which includes the sports broadcast enhancement company, Virtual Spectator.
Business

Australia’s second largest pay-TV provider Austar United Communications has seen its operating losses widen in its latest set of financial results.
Media

Sportsworld Media Group, the London-based sports marketing group, has finalised its $3m (B