Events

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the appointment of Malcolm Speed, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) chief, as its new chief executive.

Australia's Victorian Major Events is reported to have offered a $1.2 million (US$600,000) "sweetener" to ensure that if Australia's soccer team makes it to the final phase of the World Cup qualifying campaign, the decisive match will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Australian Swimming has launched a plan to lift the sport?s everyday profile.

Sports research agency Sports Marketing Surveys has signed a three-year agreement to sponsor the WPGA one day series.

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

Carnegie Cooke & Company has won approval from the government of Brazil for a deal to be struck between it and the Brazilian Association of Jockey Clubs (BAJC).

Italian football fans will be able to watch match highlights on third-generation (3G) mobile phones from the summer of 2002, according to Hutchison 3G Italia.

British experts on soccer hooliganism warned Japan on Friday to keep a tight rein on hard-core troublemakers at next year's World Cup while avoiding a heavy-handed approach that would spoil the fun for real fans.

The toe-dipping around the Olympic pool is set to stop and the serious contenders are preparing to dive into the race for world sport's most powerful job - the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.

FIFA's choice of Africa to host the 2010 World Cup was right and overdue, a leading Moroccan Football Federation official said on Friday.

IEC in Sports has renewed its television distribution deal with the European Amateur Athletics Association.

The Women's Tennis Association has received an injection of cash from US high-tech stock market Nasdaq.

Japan ended its dispute with South Korea on Thursday over which name should come first in official documents for the 2002 World Cup by deciding to leave out both of the host countries' names.

Foxtel's Fox Sports operations in Australia is beginning to pose problems for free-to-air rivals.

South Korean soccer fans have applied for more than one million tickets for the 2002 World Cup finals, four times the number of seats offered in the first round of sales, organisers said on Thursday.

The Singapore Sports Ministry has unveiled a budget of S$500 million over five years for sports, and outlined plans for a new complex that aims to turn Singapore into a hub for world-class sporting events.