Events

Quokka Sports is slashing its staff by 20 per cent ? and cannot rule out future job cuts.

Pace Micro Technology have reported findings from The Pace Report 2001, a survey of U.S. adults and their views toward digital television.

English soccer First Division side Nottingham Forest has reported losses of #4.8m ($7.3m) for the year to May 31, 2000.

Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi has launched an online rugby game called Beat Rugby to keep the New Zealand All Blacks and the team?s sponsors adidas in the sporting spotlight during the international rugby off-season.

The award-winning WestpacTrust Stadium may be joined by an indoor sports venue.

UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has won exclusive rights to broadcast England's next two cricket tours of Sri Lanka.

A Florida group seeking to host the 2012 Olympics has unveiled plans for an Olympic stadium and village in downtown Tampa at the sites of two public housing projects.

The race to secure the terrestrial and interactive media to rights to UK horse racing is close to being won by Go Racing, the consortium made up of Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure.

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) has threatened to withdraw the 2005 World Championships from London over doubts concerning the proposed #95million stadium at Picketts Lock.

Canada ?based Rogers Communications Inc. has taken its fight to gain control of Sportsnet, an all-sports specialty television channel, to the federal broadcast regulator.

Stockholm?s Olympic Stadium will host its first speedway meeting for nearly thirty years when the Speedway Grand Prix hits the Swedish capital on Saturday 29 September 2001.

All finalists at both world outdoor and indoor athletics championships will receive prize money from next year.

European internet TV company Kamera, has recruited Andrew Kaza as a new member of the board.

New Zealand said it will continue a ban on sporting contacts with Fiji until the troubled island makes enough progress towards restoring a constitutional and democratic government to warrant a change.

Fast Track, the sports consultancy founded by Alan Pascoe, has won its first major international consultancy contract.

Cricket chiefs of three Asian nations have sought a meeting with the Indian government to request reversing its decision to cancel a tour of Pakistan.