Spain

Euro 2000 organisers have freed up well over 50,000 tickets for this summer's championships and plan to sell them from Thursday.

The court-appointed official sent in to untangle the financial situation at Atletico Madrid has warned that the club is "technically bankrupt" and in urgent need of 13,000 million pesetas ($74.75 million), according to local media reports.

BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.

UEFA and FIFA face almost certain disappointment in their efforts to persuade the European Union to reverse some of the most damaging effects of the Bosman ruling, EU officials have warned.

Last year, Manchester United revealed it had not insured against winning the Champions League and the resulting player bonuses. This year?s favourites for the title, Barcelona, have been more prudent.

Italian soccer club Inter Milan is planning to launch its own digital television channel in May.

Sports.com has launched three new country-specific Web sites, providing extensive, local coverage of all relevant sports in Germany, Italy and Spain in each country's language.

Barcelona's fine performances on the field have been accompanied by the furious ringing of cash registers at the Nou Camp club shop.

BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.

NBA.com TV Daily ? a new global video service providing updates and highlights of NBA action from the night before ? has gone live today.

Teamtalk.com, the soccer Internet company, is planning to raise #60m ($97m) through a placing of new ordinary shares.

Representatives from large clubs in the Netherlands, Scotland, Belgium and Portugal met in Amsterdam this week to discuss the problems of being big fish in small soccer ponds.

Barcelona FC has chosen the ERDC Group, the synthetic sports surface supplier, to provide ?Fieldturf? for the clubs new training facility at Nou Camp. ERDC expect to finish the resurfacing programme by early March.

Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica are still interested in buying Minardi, the Italian Formula One team has confirmed.

Quokka Sports, the digital sports entertainment company, and Terra Networks, Telefonica's Internet subsidiary, have signed a partnership agreement that will allow Quokka to expand the reach of its digital sports programming.

Europe's top clubs brought their complaints about losing players to international duty to UEFA earlier this week, demanding European soccer's governing body push for a universal calendar that fits their needs.