News

Tod Leiweke, who has held management posts with several sports teams and organisations, has been named the first president of the NHL expansion Minnesota Wild.
Events

The beleaguered organisers of the Rugby World Cup have criticised ITV's coverage of the event as a "disgrace" according to a report in the UK?s Guardian newspaper.
Stadia

Sport Internet group Sportal has appointed Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for a $48million fundraising drive as a precursor to a flotation next year.

The US House has approved legislation designed to protect boxers from unscrupulous promoters and give state boxing commissions more power to supervise the sport.
Business

Guinness announced a 15 per cent sales increase in the UK for the September/October period during which they sponsored the Rugby World Cup.
Business

The Arena Football League (AFL) has announced that the Portland Forest Dragons will be relocating to a yet-unspecified location for the upcoming 2000 season, after efforts by current owner Ed Gatlin to find new local investors for the team went unsuccessful.
Events

This weekend?s Rugby World Cup final between France and Australia drew an audience of over 14 million French television viewers or 79.6 percent of those watching French TV at the time, TV group TF1 has said.

President Clinton Thursday urged professional sports franchises to do more for urban youths and said the strong U.S. economy offered a chance to "bring real hope" to blighted areas as he embarked on a second poverty tour.
Sponsorship & Marketing

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and the National Basketball Association renewed their global partnership through the 2001-2002 NBA season.

Tributes have been pouring in for Primo Nebiolo ? president of the IAAF ? who died at the weekend.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Montreal lawyer Richard Pound, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee, has said he will head up a new worldwide anti-doping agency for the IOC, Canadian Press has reported.
Media

IMG has been appointed by the Welsh Rugby Union and its subsidiary Millennium Stadium plc to represent them in the development and exploitation of their joint commercial programme.

ESPN International has acquired the exclusive distribution rights in Latin America for a package of Scottish Premier League soccer games.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Mammoth Sports Group, parent company of Mammothgolf.com, the internet's most popular e-commerce site for a discounted choice of name-brand golf equipment and supplies, has named Kent A. Arett President and Chief Operating Officer.

Australian Olympics Minister Michael Knight ended speculation that SOCOG chief executive Sandy Hollway was about to resign.
Business

Adidas-Salomon has announced a record profit in the third quarter of this year. Third-quarter pre-tax profit jumped 35% to DM427m - the highest figure for this period that the group has ever achieved.
Business

A new Brazilian law preventing a company from controlling or sponsoring more than one football club came into being last week, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.
Business

The Cleveland Indians, one of the most successful baseball teams of the decade, will be sold to an attorney who is a longtime fan of the club in a deal valued at some $320 million, the franchise has said.
Business

The president and other officials of the International Boxing Federation have been indicted for bribery, charged with selling rankings to boxers over the past 14 years for as much as $100,000.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Terence F. McGuirk, chairman and chief executive officer of Turner Broadcasting System, has announced a strategic reorganisation of the company's Turner Sports division that includes new responsibilities for three TBS executives.