Events

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has been awarded the rights to broadcast the Champions? League soccer matches in Italy for the next four seasons.

Among the diverse voices at this weeks Interactive Sports West 1999 Conference in Los Angeles Mark Cuban's stood out.

International Speedway Corps (ISC) is buying sports promoter Penske Motorsports Inc, for about $610 million in a deal that will put 10 auto racing tracks in the US under one owner and create a dominant entity in auto-racing promotions and in particular NASCAR racing.

After all the hype, tickets for next year's Olympic Games in Sydney go on sale this week.

Brazilian politicians have announced a $34 million refurbishment for the world famous Maracana stadium.

Sydney's 2000 Games chief Michael Knight raised the hackles of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, lecturing its members on the need for reform just two days after cutting millions of dollars in IOC perks from the Sydney budget.

The English Football Association has offered leading club Manchester United an unprecedented opportunity to ease its fixture schedule - in a move aimed at enhancing the countries claims to hosting the 2006 World Cup.

A vice-president of world soccer governing body FIFA has blasted the decision to delay the vote on who will win the battle to host the 2006 World Cup.

The Pepsi-Cola Company will be an official beverage sponsor of the All-American Soccer Stars Victory (AASS) Tour.

The Restrictive Practices Court in London is to make a landmark court ruling today on the way in which television rights to English Premier League games are sold.

The 20th Southeast Asian games begin on Saturday with attention focused as much on the tiny sultanate of Brunei as the actual competition itself.

South African soccer officials, confident of the quality of their bid, have revealed why they think they should host the 2006 World Cup.

ISL Television is to exclusively represent the international broadcast rights to the five key domestic Brazilian football competitions under an agreement with the domestic rights-holders for Brazilian football: Clube dos Treze and Rede Globo.

Athletics action at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane has failed to live up to the ratings success of swimming, ranking only as the sixteenth most watched programme on local television on Tuesday night.

The Canadian Football League (CFL) has signed a deal with Houston-based broadcast firm USFR Media Group to show match coverage throughout the US on the America One Television Network.

Guenther Struwe, programme director of German public broadcaster ARD, has predicted that the network will be taking advertising in primetime schedules for its major sports events within the next four to five years.