Zimbabwe

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will send another inspection team to Zimbabwe next week to look at progress in the preparations for the hosting of the African Nations Cup finals in 2000.

The stadium where Sunday's African Champions' League will be decided could be banned from staging matches next year after crowd violence there in October, officials said.

The president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), India's Jagmohan Dalmiya, will not attend a key meeting of the ICC's executive board in New Zealand this weekend.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to take the 2000 African Nations Cup finals away from Zimbabwe.

The Davis Cup Centennial Celebration quarter-final tie between the United States and Australia at the Longwood Cricket Club this summer sold out in a lightning-quick 81 minutes, the USTA said.

Brisbane is in line to host a Davis cup tie on 24-26 September 1999.

Three leading African clubs face sanctions this week as investigations into irregularities are held by the Confederation of African Football, who begun a week-long series of high-profile meetings in Cairo this week.

Britain's first online tax-free betting service has launched into National Football League betting in the United States.

Nigeria has named Lagos and Kano as its venues for next year's African Nations Cup which it is co-hosting with Ghana.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is monitoring unrest in Zimbabwe which could threaten England's tour of the country.

Officials from the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit will meet organisers of the Sharjah tournament to combat potential match-fixing at this year's tournament.

A domestic record 5.55m rupees ($117,000) is to be paid for each cricket Test India plays in a deal agreed with international sports management firm IMG.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a three-year extension to its current television contracts with terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 and pay-TV channel Sky Sports.

South African soccer officials are introducing numbered tickets for the World Cup qualifier against Zimbabwe in Johannesburg on Saturday after 43 people died at the city?s Ellis Park stadium last month.

The four bids so far submitted for the sponsorship of the Indian cricket team are not satisfactory, the treasurer of the country's cricket board (BCCI) has said.

The International Cricket Council has approved South Africa?s proposals for the format of the 2003 World Cup.

FIFA will take no immediate action against former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, the player at the centre of a 1990s bribery case.

Mali has been confirmed as the venue for the 2002 African Nations Cup finals, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said.