News

Business

ISL, the marketing company which has rights to soccer?s World Cup, the ATP Tour, and a range of other international events, may seek a stockmarket flotation, according to a report in the publication TV Sports Markets.
Business

The New York State Athletic Commission adopted this week reforms bringing boxing promoters, judges and sanctioning bodies under greater scrutiny in response to the controversial Holyfield-Lewis draw decision last March.
Business

Brands Hatch Leisure, the UK motor racing circuits group, has confirmed it will continue with plans to invest #20m in the Brands Hatch circuit so it can stage the British Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2002.
Business

The owner of a professional US hockey team in Raleigh is in talks that will clear the way for a naming-rights deal on the city's new arena, according to insider sources.
Media

Billionaire oilman Marvin Davis has pulled out of his bid to set up an NFL expansion franchise based at Hollywood Park, Inglewood.
Business

Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics has awarded the Pepsi-Cola Group, the exclusive carbonated soft drink pouring rights and sponsorship at Network Associates Coliseum (`The Net?) making Pepsi its `Official Soft Drink?.
Stadia

Mohammed Fayed is hatching an amazing plan to transport Wembley's world-famous Twin Towers to English Football League Division One club Fulham.
Business

International sports sponsorship research company, ROI Research, will deliver information from consumers directly over the Internet, in a new partnership agreement with USADATA.com.
Stadia

The NFL is planning to show Sunday afternoon football in the Netherlands, Austria and Singapore via the Internet starting this weekend.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Nike and Fogdog Sports have entered into a strategic relationship that will allow the leading Internet sporting goods retailer to purchase and sell Nike products online beginning with the 1999 holiday season.
Sponsorship & Marketing

UK publishing company, The Future Network, has made a deal to acquire the official magazines of Manchester United and Chelsea from sports publishing and branding agency Zone - and has seen #55 million ($80m) added to its stock market value, according to the soccer industry newsletter, Soccer Investor.
Stadia

NBA Commissioner David J. Stern is to announce at the 1999 NBA League Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, that the league is launching NBA.com TV ? a new 24-hour television network ? on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Business

The Rugby World Cup is expected to inject more than IR#50 million ($66.35 million) into the Irish economy, the Irish Football Union estimates.
Media

RAI ? the Italian public broadcaster ? has sub-licensed the rights to 30 live soccer games in this season?s Coppa Italia.
Stadia

Greenland, which has a population of 55,000 and around 3,000 soccer players, aims to become a member of FIFA and UEFA, national team coach Sepp Piontek has said.

Ticketing firm Synchro Systems have signed new deals with six British soccer clubs and two foreign teams.
Business

ISM Racing intends to expand its present racing operations from a one-car team to a two-car effort in the Pep Boys Indy Racing League (IRL) for the year 2000.
Business

The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has had its licence revoked and been ordered to replace several leading

Ali Bacher, chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) development committee, has said the number of teams at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa should be increased from 12 to 14.
Stadia

A sellout crowd of nostalgic Detroit baseball fans joined Hall of Fame players and the ghosts of past glory to say farewell to Tiger Stadium this week after 88 seasons.