News

Members of the 50+ age group are becoming increasingly active participants and spenders in the sports sector, according to a report by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association(SGMA).

FIFA and UEFA have agreed to start a joint campaign of random out-of-competition dope testing on players ahead of next year's European championship finals.

Martin Edwards, chief of English Premier League Manchester United ? the richest soccer club in the world ? is a cool #41million ($67.9m) better off today after selling a 7.5 per cent share of the club.
Business

Houston has won the battle for the prized NFL franchise.
Media

Direct Satellite Broadcasting Ltd (DBS) have taken control of Israeli Premier League club Betar Jerusalem.

Sydney Olympic Games organisers have warned unsuccessful ticket applicants they have only two weeks to apply for tickets which were not sold in the initial release.
Media

Tetley?s Bitter has signed a deal with UK commercial radio station Talk Radio to sponsor its Rugby World Cup coverage.
Events

Latin America?s Octagon Koch Tavares has signed a deal to be exclusive marketing agency for the Brazilian Tennis Confederation (CBT).
Events

Broadcom Corporation, an enabler of broadband communications to homes and businesses, and Gotcha International, the surfwear and media company, have launched Broadband Interactive Group Inc. (BIG) to create interactive content aimed at the 10-24 year-old age group.
Business

ISM Holding Corp, owners of ISM Marketing and ISM Motorsports, is to launch an interactive sports betting and gaming site, the first of several interactive web sites to be owned by the company.

Rangers have dismissed a plan by arch-rivals Celtic that they should both quit Scottish football to join a proposed European league involving top clubs from the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.

The organisers of Euro 2000 responded to complaints of major ticketing problems, saying that only "a few hundred" fans had suffered because of mistakes in the ticket allocation process.
Business

The Organising Committee for the 2004 Olympic Games hope to make 100bn drachmas ($326m) from the licensing of the new Athens 2004 logo, according to a Financial Times registered source.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has said he had agreed to testify before a US Congress hearing into Atlanta's winning bid for the 1996 Olympics.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Soccer has been confirmed as the most popular globally televised sport in the world according to research carried out by French firm Mediametrie.
Business

English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United Plc reported a 36 percent fall in annual operating profit after their failure to qualify for Europe's Champions League last season.
Business

Manchester United's triple success last season in winning the European Cup, the English title and the FA Cup sent their profits soaring, the club has reported.
Business

Shareholders of the Montreal Expos have said they had reached agreement in principle to transfer control of the financially ailing Major League Baseball team and keep it in the city.
Media

Italy's Societa Diritti Sportivi (SDS) has denied it has pulled out of pay-TV operator Stream allowing new partners to take its place alongside Rupert Murdoch's News Corp .
Business

SiS has become the first research and evaluation firm to provide the South American market with an independent service after it opened an office in Brazil.