Events

Asian internet sports portal, Sportalasia, has selected Digital Island to provide content delivery and streaming media services to sports fans globally.

The UK government may still permit the broadcast rights of certain World Cup 2002 matches to be sold to pay-TV operators ? despite a statement last week claiming all 64 matches are listed events.

The French soccer league (LNF) has rejected bids from TF1 and Metropole Television (M6) for the right to broadcast highlights of soccer games on Sunday mornings.

Formula One promoter Bernie Ecclestone has said that Europe's major carmakers could wreck top-level motor racing if they proceed with their plans to set up a rival championship to F1.

US supermarket chain Food 4 Less has signed a new sponsorship deal with Irwindale Speedway.

The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) is reviewing Perth?s future as an international venue, placing in doubt the Tri-Nations test between Australia and South Africa scheduled for August.

Keynote Systems, the internet performance analysts, have described the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament as ?one of the biggest sports events on the web? - due primarily to people at work logging on to follow teams' results for their office pools.

ISL will buy its way out of the $1.2billion marketing, licensing and broadcasting rights deal signed with the ATP and top tournaments, according to news sources.

Speedway Motorsports has elected North Carolina businessman Tom E. Smith to the company's Board of Directors.

GG-Media has emerged as a new bidder offering media coverage from 26 of the UK's smaller racecourses in the latest tussle over the sale of media rights for horse racing, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Cheltenham & Gloucester, the financial services company, has announced a three year sponsorship agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that will see the company become title sponsors of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, the premier One-Day knockout tournament in England and Wales.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has declared the 2010 World Cup finals will be staged in Africa, ending any lingering doubts about the location of the tournament.

Cable operator NTL has confirmed it was part of a consortium of British pay TV groups bidding for the English soccer pay-per-view rights for which the company abandoned an exclusive bid last year.

Atlanta?s ten year old Senior PGA Tour event could become another victim of the dot com crash.

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 Culture, Media and Sport select committee report into the staging of international sporting events has called for the Sports Minister to be given increased powers in the new Government.