Events

e-comsport Group plc, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)-listed sports marketing business, has announced a loss for the year ended 31 December 2000 of #4.5m ($6.41m).

New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani is set to unveil a $100m investment in a new sports and entertainment complex at Randall's and Ward's Island Park.

The world of squash is set to be revolutionised by the launch of a strategic partnership between the Professional Squash Association, and the international marketing and sports rights company, Eye Group in tandem with its investment arm Fablon Investments Ltd.

Moscow may be on the Formula One Grand Prix map as soon as 2003, if the International Automobile Federation (FIA) gets its way.

The German city of Dusseldorf wants to stage the World Team Cup tennis tournament until 2007, organisers have said.

Arena Leisure, the racecourse and media group, is set to announce this week it has clinched a deal to control television rights to British horseracing, according to newspaper reports.

KirchMedia has taken `full and sole control? of HBS, the host broadcasting company for soccer?s 2002 World Cup in the light of the financial crisis at ISL.

UK commercial network ITV has slammed International Rugby Board chairman Vernon Pugh over his claims it is still interested in securing the rights for the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup.

AmeriSuites has signed a new three-year sponsorship of American Spirit Racing's (ASR) team in the BF Goodrich Trans-Am Series.

The climax of a soap opera whodunit, which has gripped Britain for weeks, will delay the kick-off of an international soccer match in Spain.

The monetary value of Champions League football to English soccer clubs has been dramatically emphasised with the revelation that Leeds United has increased turnover by 67% for the last six months of last year.

South Korean Kim Un-yong has joined the race for world sport's most powerful job -- the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.

Top badminton players have expressed dismay over the 11th hour postponement of the World Grand Prix finals, one of the sport's showpiece events.

Malaysian motor racing fans will be able to watch the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit on STAR Sports? live telecast.

Germany's Kirch Group and public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a television rights agreement for the next two World Cups after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder asked them to work out a deal.

The XFL may be accused of attracting poor primetime ratings on NBC, but the head of Fox Sports has said that the football league's innovations such as on-field cameras and microphones could have ``major ramifications'' for TV coverage of all other sports.