Events

Japan is fighting for a change in the title name of the 2002 World Cup finals because FIFA put South Korea ahead of them when they announced the joint Asian co-hosts in April 1996.

Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis is today signing a $1.6m deal with the BBC ? a key victory for the broadcaster as it looks to rebuild its sports portfolio.

The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) is out to win a share of the money generated when its national team, the All Blacks, play overseas.

Troubled sports internet company Quokka Sports will announce its 2000 fourth quarter and year-end financial results at the close of the market on Thursday, February 8, 2001.

UK commercial radio station TalkSPORT has teamed up with Rivals.net - the network of more than 300 independent sports websites - to partner its "The Big Ticket" promotion next month.

Internet portal SportsYA.com has launched an interactive sports TV programme with Argentine TV network Azul TV.

UK-based publicity firm Propergander has restructured and rebranded to become Resource-PR Limited.

Greece has launched its Olympic volunteer programme, appealing for 60,000 people to help make the troubled 2004 Athens Games a success.

Princeton Video Imaging (PVI) chairman Brown Williams has acclaimed the debut of EyeVison action replay technology on CBS? coverage of the 35th Super Bowl.

Shares in debt-ridden media firm EM.TV & Merchandising rose 10 percent on Monday after rival Kirch said talks on its rescue offer could be extended and the field of potential suitors appeared to widen.

The Denver Metropolitan Football Stadium District board is expected to approve an offer by Invesco Funds Group to name the new Mile High Stadium Invesco Field at Mile High.

The new sports channel that the BBC and cable broadcasters NTL plan to launch this year will be free to existing subscribers of BSkyB, ONdigital or NTL.

The NBA has signed a multi year partnership with Real Networks which will provide live internet broadcasts of NBA.com TV and NBA.com Audio Pass.

More than 60% of XFL advertising spots in advance of the league?s debut on February 3, 2001.

CBS will earn more than $360 million from its advertising spots during its television broadcast of the Super Bowl. The US National Football League finals match will be held on 28 January 2001, and the list of advertisers will be notable for the absence of most of the dotcom companies which advertised in 2000, many of which crashed in the April 2000 "tech-wreck" stock price crash.

The Senior PGA Tour?s decision to award its broadcast rights to CNBC has paid early dividends.