North America

The New York Yankees have agreed to a $52 million, one-year television deal with the International Management Group?s television arm Trans World International.

Trey Holland has been nominated to serve a second one-year term as president of the United States Golf Association.

The NFL is offering European television stations free access to game highlights with a new Sunday-night highlights service.

The Los Angeles Kings will host the 2002 NHL All-Star game at the Staples Center in February 2002.

NBA ticket prices have rocketed by more than four percent ? putting the sport at the top of the table when it comes to pricey tickets.

The New York Stock Exchange plans to delist Sport Supply Group Inc, the direct mail marketer of sporting goods, for failing to maintain a minimum market capitalization and equity level.

ESPN Internet Group has launched ESPNdeportes.com, a Spanish-language sports site serving the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic communities.

National Football League owners have agreed to loan the Chicago Bears $100 million to help renovate Soldier Field, the team's current home, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch and 150 of Europe's Gold medal winners from Sydney attended the new Eurosport 'SportStar Awards' in Monaco last week.

Michigan Racing commissioner Annette M. Bacola has signed orders authorizing 606 days of live horse racing for 2001.

The NHL's New York Islanders ownership group of Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar, as well as business associate Russell Artzt, have been approved by the Arena Football League's board of directors for the sale and relocation of the Iowa Barnstormers.

NFL owners have voted to return the Super Bowl to Houston and Detroit.

Daktronics, Inc. is to design and build a $7.9 million integrated scoring and video display system for the new American Airlines Centre under construction in Dallas, Texas.

Major League Baseball?s Pittsburgh Pirates will open PNC Park with exhibition games against the New York Mets.

The NFL has agreed a new scheduling format for the league, to come into effect when the Houston Texans join the league in 2002.

A federal judge has ruled that a New York real estate developer, who put down a deposit of $20million in a bid to own the Washington Redskins, has lost his action to recover the sum.