North America
Sponsorship & Marketing

IMG/Chase Sports Capital Partners, of New York, have agreed to acquire a 72% ownership interest in The Golf Warehouse (www.thegolfwarehouse.com or www.tgw.com), of Wichita, Kansas, a leading online retailer of golf-related products.
Events

Fox Sports Net and Southwest Sports Group, the Dallas-based sports and entertainment company controlled by Tom Hicks, have entered into a comprehensive long-term broadcast partnership agreement that will keep the Stanley Cup champion Dallas Stars and American League West Division Champion Texas Rangers on Fox Sports Net Southwest and add the Mesquite Championship Rodeo to the network's programming line-up.
Stadia

The New York Giants and New York Jets are to ditch their artificial surfaces at the Giants Stadium and play on real grass.
Media

Britain's commercial network, ITV has struck a deal to continue showing Formula One motor races until 2005.
Business

Shareholders of the Montreal Expos have said they had reached agreement in principle to transfer control of the financially ailing Major League Baseball team and keep it in the city.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has said he had agreed to testify before a US Congress hearing into Atlanta's winning bid for the 1996 Olympics.
Business

Houston has won the battle for the prized NFL franchise.
Media

Rick Raducha, president of Driver Connection, in Connecticut, and Patricia Baker, media and marketing director of The Big Picture Agency in Massachusetts, have formed `Corporate Motorsports? to support businesses scrambling to sign race teams in an attempt to cash in on the high marketing value found in autoracing.

DaimlerChrysler AG will announce this week that its Dodge brand is returning to NASCAR racing, ending a 14-year absence from the sport.
Business

Past and present National Football League quarterbacks are looking to score big with an investment in a company that produces television-style programming for the Internet.
Stadia

Embarrassed Irish rugby officials were forced to apologise to dozens of World Cup supporters who arrived at Thursday's match between Australia and United States to learn that their seats did not exist.
Business

Everton soccer club owner Peter Johnson was expected to confirm this week that he had accepted a #25million ($42-million) bid for his 68 per cent shareholding in the English Premier League club from a consortium led by two computer game entrepreneurs, British newspapers said at the weekend.
Business

Pacific Bell will serve as title sponsor for a free music, entertainment and sports extravaganza this weekend to commemorate the opening of the Staples Centre.

Organisers of next year?s Sport Summit say they are anticpating a bumper turn-out for the first show of the new millennium.
Business

An investment banking firm in New York is in the final stages of purchasing Major League Soccer outfit DC United's operating rights, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Business

Searching for new customers and talented employees beyond major U.S. Internet centres, Web portal Go2Net Inc. has launched a marketing campaign at major college football stadiums.
Business

Continuing the migration of figures from sports marketing to the online sports sector, Ignite Sports Media LLC has hired Gordon Kane, formerly director of marketing and brand development for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and vice president of the USOC's Olympic Properties of the United States, as vice president of advertising and marketing.
Events

Sydney Olympic organisers have conjured up an extra half-million tickets to the 2000 Games to defuse a public outcry over a ticketing policy that has left the Australian public scrambling for seats.