North America

US online retailer Netgrocer.com is to add a line of official merchandise for Italian Serie A soccer club Parma AC.

Prost Grand Prix said on Thursday they had signed a marketing and sponsorship deal with Miami-based television company PanAmerican Sports Network (PSN).

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) have announced that archer Jackson Fear had been banned for two years for cannabis use.

Baseball players had a boom year at the bank in 2000 as average salaries soared by 17.5 per cent to $1.9 million according to the annual survey released Wednesday by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron said on Thursday it had accepted the first German challenge for the America's Cup in the competition's 150 year history.

The MBNA Corporation has signed a long-term deal with the United States Tennis Association for MBNA to become the official credit card issuer for the USTA.

Web-based multimedia messaging experts MindArrow Systems have signed a deal with the NBA to allow the use of its eBrochure technology by NBA, WNBA and NBDL teams.

Indian hockey authorities have sacked chief coach Vasudevan Baskaran and dropped three senior players after their disappointing seventh-place finish at the Sydney Olympics.

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.

MVP.com, the sports e-tailer backed by athletic superstars Michael Jordan, John Elway and Wayne Gretzky, is to close its offices in Boulder, Colorado and Austin, Texas, and lay off 48 percent of its 166 employees.

US marketing giant Octagon has acquired the California-based football operation of Mike Sullivan and Jeff Sperbeck.

Soccer's international governing body FIFA will raise more than $1 billion in the bond market to cover its costs in the run-up to the next two World Cups.

The Boston Red Sox are planning changes in legislation drawn up over its new $660m stadium in a bid to make it easier to secure private funding.

Three new members of the NFL?s competition committee ? which recommends rules and policy changes - have been selected.

The dates for next year?s Sportel in Monaco have been confirmed.

The Florida Marlins and local politicians have finalised a plan to fund and build a $385-million, retractable-roof ballpark to keep the Major League baseball team in south Florida, officials said Sunday.