Scandinavia

Sports management company Sport Entertainment and Media (SEM) has bought Scandinavian soccer agents Manmark for GBP1.8million (USD2.6m/EUR2.9m).

Sports media group TEAMtalk has signed a deal with the Expressen Newspaper Group in Sweden to provide daily football content for the Allsvenskan league.

Belarus Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov has been unanimously elected as president of the country's ice hockey federation.

Scotland is considering a joint bid with the Republic of Ireland to host football's 2008 European Championships according to UK newspaper reports.

Last weekend’s 'friendly' soccer international between Denmark and the Netherlands was streamed live on the internet - only the second time a broadband transmission has been agreed by the Danish Football Association (DFA).

With time running out until the opening game of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, many broadcasters are playing a waiting game over TV rights. Tim Wallace explains why

A federal judge has dismissed the remaining charges against former Salt Lake Olympic officials Tom Welch and Dave Johnson after they were accused of using up to $1million (B

The World Boxing Council hold their week long Boxing Convention in Jakarta, The UK's Rugby Football Union announce their annual results, the teams gaining automatic qualification to the World Cup will be decided this week and the European Sponsorship Consultants Association hold their annual congress in Stockholm.

The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have confirmed their intention to bid for the right to host the 2008 European Championships.

Scandinavian pay-TV broadcaster Canal Digital has said uncertainty surrounding the region's 2002 soccer World Cup rights deal must be resolved by the end of October.

Athletics’ world governing body the IAAF is implementing a range of measures in a boost to spark new interest in its Golden League competition.

UK broadcaster ITV has been warned that its soccer highlights show The Premiership must improve ratings by mid-November if it is to remain at the heart of peak time viewing.

Michel Platini – former French soccer captain and long-time favourite to head European governing body UEFA – has pulled out of the race to replace Lennart Johansson.

European soccer's governing body, UEFA, has five million Swiss francs ($3.08 million) available to compensate clubs who lost money as a result of their Champions League matches being postponed after the September 11 attacks in the United States, chief executive Gerhard Aigner said.

Danish soccer club Odense Boldklub has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Carlsberg Danmark, a subsidiary of the international brewing group Carlsberg Breweries.

The Council of the European Athletic Association (EAA) has announced that Gothenburg in Sweden will be the host city for the 2006 European Championships.