Events

Australian drag racing’s iTEL Community Telco Drag Racing Nationals has secured its first major international TV rights deal.

US motorsport promoter Dover Motorsports has declared a cash dividend to shareholders.

The fires in California have claimed two high profile sporting victims – the CART and NASCAR races scheduled for this weekend in the state.

Toyota has pulled the plug on its broadcast sponsorship of UK commercial network ITV’s Formula One coverage.

Interactive sports marketing and technology firm Sportvision has signed a deal with the PGA Tour for the use of the Virtual Caddy system on television coverage of next week's Tour Championship.

The countdown is on to a seminar on the bidding and hosting of major sporting events taking place in London next week.

The bid committee for London's campaign to land the 2012 Olympic Games has rounded out its management team with three new appointments.

The NFL is to launch a UK marketing campaign promoting the Super Bowl for the second year running after appointing two agencies to handle the initiative.

Cable network ESPN has reached a new multi-year agreement for the broadcast rights to the Spanish football league (La Liga) throughout Latin America and the Pacific Rim.

Manchester United’s communications chief Paddy Harverson – and former columnist for our sister publication, SportBusiness International - is quitting the club to become communications secretary to the Prince of Wales.

The UK city of Liverpool has been selected as the host port of the start and finish of the 2005/6 and 2007/8 Round the World Yacht Races.

SportelAsia has been postponed for the second year running, amid a fear the SARS virus could reawaken over the winter months.

Building on the platform of this year's Rugby World Cup, Japan is lobbying to be included in the Southern Hemisphere's Super 12 series from 2006.

The International Olympic Committee has commended Athens following the latest inspection of the preparations for next year's Olympics whilst warning that there are still many issues to address.

Tracy Edwards (pictured) has struck back at critics of a rival sailing event which claims she stole their ideas when announcing her own series of events earlier this month.

Be sure you don't miss out on the key events, meetings and decisions due over the next seven days, in sportbusiness.com's regular look at the Week Ahead.