Events

Rumours of a CART series/Indy Racing League (IRL) merger were rife after CART announced that its chassis regulation would be the same as those of its rival from 2003.

All of CART's FedEx Championship series races will be aired live on TV in the US - the first time it has enjoyed such blanket coverage in its 23-year history.

International Sports Management (ISM), a subsidiary of AIM-listed Sports Resource Group, is to buy one of Australia's leading golf agencies

Rotational signage firm ANC Sports Enterprises has launched a technology division dedicated to developing new multi-media signage and display products for sports venues.

With just one day left until the Winter Olympic Games kick off in Salt Lake City, Utah, activities off-piste are getting more media attention than events on the slopes.

Leading car makers aiming to set up their own Formula One racing series have no interest in more talks with rights holders the Kirch Group, a top executive of German auto group DaimlerChrysler has reportedly said.

With the World Cup less than four months away, broadcast rights-holders Kirch are preparing for what will be one of the most complex logistical operations in sporting history.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is being sued by two American tournaments over scheduling objections to the 2003 event calendar.

Latin American sports broadcaster the Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) is to close within the next few days, sportbusiness.com has exclusively learned.

The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has appointed Asian media and internet company SINA as its official website for this summer's World Cup and next year's Women's World Cup.

CART has reported a $3.3million (EUR3.8m) fourth quarter loss - and reported a year-end loss of $950,000 (EUR1m) for 2001.

Eight cities, including Sarajevo, are bidding to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.

A trio of leading US investment and broadcast interests have formed a sports programming alliance to serve Latin America and the US Spanish language market.

The organisers of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne have taken a leaf out of the book of this year's Manchester event by appointing Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) as the sponsor sales and service consultant.

A team representing a restaurant in England has just landed a £500,000 ($707,099/EUR816,040) sponsorship deal - twice the size of the deal agreed by the ECB for its County Championship naming rights.

Radio stations in France wanting to broadcast games from France's Ligue Nationale de Football will have to pay.

Hosting the Super Bowl not only provided a useful boost to the economy, but also generated millions in terms of publicity.

Madrid will take over the Tennis Masters Series tournament hosted until now by Stuttgart, the Madrid Tennis Federation (FTM) has said.