Events

Cable company NTL is to become title sponsor of Ref!Link, the device that allows international rugby fans in the stadium to hear a live link of what the referee is saying during a match.

Spanish pay-TV firm Sogecable has signed a 3.25 billion-peseta ($17.80 m) deal to market soccer club Real Madrid's image, gaining access to its internet, merchandising and franchising business.

The president of AFL club Carlton, John Elliott, has summoned all his counterparts to a meeting in Melbourne next Tuesday with a view to challenging the existing AFL Commission.

Anticipation of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City moves into high gear this week when the men's alpine skiing venue at Snowbasin makes its World Cup debut with a pair of downhills and a super-G.

Madrid mayor Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano is due to make a formal proposal to bid for the 2012 Olympic Games at a meeting with the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) today.

Competitors at an athletics competition have been critical of the demands placed on them by live cable television coverage.

IMG has opened its first office in the Middle East, based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has expressed fears over the proposed deal to sell another 25 per cent stake in SLEC, F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone?s family trust which holds the commercial rights to the sport.

An independent firm of consultants are to be appointed by the SANZAR unions (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia) to examine the possibility of expanding the Super 12 competition to include more teams.

China urged International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates arriving on Monday to assess Beijing's bid for the 2008 Games to focus on its credentials as a "sports superpower of 1.2 billion people", not its human rights record.

Martina Hingis and Mary Pierce did not exactly blaze a trail for feminism when they played in the first women's tennis tournament in the Gulf region this week. But they were part of a quiet revolution taking place in the area.

The Australian Football League has confirmed that Carlton & United Breweries would replace Coca-Cola as the AFL's naming rights sponsor from this year in a four-year deal, as reported by sportbusiness.com last week.

THE list of sporting events that should be available first on free-to-air television may be revised after an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Coca-Cola has become the latest big-name company to pull out of talks to land the #45 million sponsorship of Premier League football.

The AFL is on the verge of signing a lucrative new deal with Carlton and United Breweries in a naming rights sponsorship valued at A$35 million (US$18.5m) over five years.

The head of Romania's referees panel, dismissed this week by domestic soccer bosses over an attempted crackdown on dubious refereeing, has appealed to European governing body UEFA.