Events

Barcelona FC bought up chunks of Wembley history in a memorabilia auction which raised more than #25,000 ($36,300), organisers said.

The NBA is set to launch a new interactive talk show ? set to be streamed live on to its web site.

Sky and talkSPORT have signed the inaugural total broadcast sponsorship deal, allowing online and digital betting in the UK.

New Zealand pay-television operator, Sky Network Television Ltd., has won rights to broadcast six of New Zealand's national rugby team?s tour matches in Europe and Japan later this year.

Two U.S. professors said they have won gold with a study predicting Olympic medal totals for different countries based on economic rather than athletic models.

NBC/Quokka Ventures (NQV), a joint venture of NBC and Quokka Sports have unveiled Action Tracker on NBCOlympics.com. Action Tracker delivers up-to-the-minute results, pictures and streaming commentary on some of the biggest events of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

US satellite pay-TV company DIRECTV and digital sports content provider, Quokka Sports have formed a strategic relationship aimed at further developing interactive sports content programming to DIRECTV's next generation set-top boxes.

International women's squash has received a $4.5m boost after London-based intellectual property rights acquisition company Fablon Investments Limited acquired the rights to the Women's World Open and Women's World Team Championships in a unique nine-year agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF).

Satellite television operator British Sky Broadcasting has reached a five-year deal with British pay-TV rival NTL to supply a wide range of its channels to the leading UK cable operator.

Worldwide Entertainment & Sports Corp?s internet subsidiary, Worldwide Houseofboxing.com (HOB), has signed a letter of intent with TelVue Corporation to offer HOB users who are cable television and Direct Broadcast satellite subscribers

NBC will offer more Olympic programming than ever before with the help of its cable-TV outlets CNBC and MSNBC.

Nickelodeon GAS (Games and Sports for Kids) is presenting a new NFL show aimed at children.

The du Maurier Classic, the last of the four annual tournaments the Ladies Professional Golf Association designates as a "major", has staged its final round of top tournament golf.

The Australian Football League will cut coverage of the 2001 pre-season Ansett Cup by half to avoid over-exposure. The Seven Network Limited will televise only 14 out of 27 games.

Most of the planet's inhabitants who have access to a television set will be watching the Sydney Olympics, according to viewing projections released by the IOC.

Ticket Plus, an affiliate of Tickets.com, and the University of Hawaii Athletic Department have confirmed that tickets for Rainbow Warrior and Rainbow Wahine sports, as well as special events, will soon be available via the internet under a new agreement.