Events
MEDICAL EXPERT PRESSES SMOG STANDARD FOR KL GAMES
The medical adviser to the Commonwealth Games has said he favoured setting a smog threshold to protect athletes from being endangered by heavy pollution during September's competition.
BOXING CANCELLATION RATTLES CABLE COMPANIES
The cancellation of Saturday's heavyweight-championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Henry Akinwande has left the cable industry with a sizable bill.
SELIG DENIES APPOINTMENT REPORT
Bud Selig, Major League Baseball's acting commissioner for nearly six years, denied a New York Times report Thursday that he has accepted the job on a permanent basis.
OPTUS PUTS SPORT PAY-TV CHANNELS INTO LIQUIDATION
Optus Communications is liquidating its pay-TV sports channels, and is renegotiating its sports broadcast rights, putting football coverage in jeopardy.
ITF TO TRY ‘NO-AD’ RULE
Driven by pressure to produce a more TV friendly product, tennis' governing body are to experiment with a 'no-ad' scoring system for certain tournaments.
NEWCASTLE UNITED INVITE SHEPHERD AND HALL BACK
Newcastle United has said it has invited Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall, who resigned in March over disparaging remarks they made about team supporters and local women, to rejoin the football club board.
MCG SPELLS $6M A YEAR
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) may sell naming rights to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for $A6m a year.
NEBIOLO BACKS STANCE ON PAYMENTS
World athletics boss Primo Nebiolo backed on Tuesday Zurich's decision not to accept the alleged financial demands of leading sprinters Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon for the richest meeting in the sport.
STADIUM PUTS ON THE FIVE-STAR FINISH
The $463 million Stadium Australia taking shape in western Sydney will not only be the biggest ever built for an Olympic Games, but from a business point of view, by far the best.
BROWNS’ OWNERSHIP RACE HOTS UP
The field of candidates to buy the NFL expansion team the Cleveland Browns has narrowed, with three of seven bidders dropping out.
GERMAN FEDERATION BOSS HURT BY CRITICS, MIGHT QUIT
German Soccer Federation (DFB) president Egidius Braun has said he had been hurt by critics and was considering retirement.
MALAYSIA TO BID FOR ASIAN GAMES
After successfully hosting the Commonwealth Games over the last one and a half weeks, Malaysia is now planning to make a bid for the Asian games in 2006 and the Olympic Games in 2008.
SAMSUNG TO BUILD WORLD CUP STADIUM
The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Supply Administration announced September 21 that a consortium led by Samsung Engineering Co. has been selected to design and build the main stadium for the 2002 World Cup.
CBS, DIRECTV PARTNER ON NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
In a move to keep cable TV on the bench during this spring's NCAA men's college basketball tournament, broadcast network CBS and satellite TV company DirecTV has unveiled plans for joint coverage of the event.
ADVANTAGE TAKES AIM AT IMG IN SPORTS MARKETING
Newly-merged marketer Advantage International is aiming at the top slot in sports and event management and wants to double its share of the lucrative global business in three years, its new international chief says.
FIFA CONFIRMS OLYMPIC AGE LIMITS
The Organising Committee for the Olympic Football Tournaments, Sydney 2000, has reaffirmed their ruling on age limits, and announced that the Men's Olympic final will be played in Sydney's new Olympic Stadium.
ITALY SEES 30PCT LIMIT ON SOCCER RIGHTS OWNERSHIP
The Italian government does not want a single operator to have more than 30 percent of pay-TV soccer rights, Communications Ministry undersecretary Vincenzo Vita has said.
ASIA FOOTBALL CHIEFS TO MULL WORLD CUP BOYCOTT
Asian soccer chiefs will decide on Tuesday whether to heed a call to boycott the 2002 World Cup in emergency talks on the region's representation in the finals.