Events

The economic benefits of hosting soccer's World Cup should provide Japan with a timely boost.

Former IOC marketing chief Dick Pound is to head up a new IOC commission charged with reducing the size and cost of the Olympics, press sources have revealed.

British Airways will sponsor tonight's first-ever pay-per-view English Premier League broadband soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United.

Asia Global Crossing has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide the Seven Network with transmission capacity for its domestic broadcast of the Salt Lake Winter Games and the Commonwealth Games later this year.

IEC in Sports has been signed up to help sell the rights to Hong Kong soccer tournament the Carlsberg Cup.

Ski legend Toni Sailer, a triple Olympic champion, has used the scene of Alpine skiing's blue-riband race to drum up support for Austria's bid to host the 2010 Winter Games.

A major conference on bidding for and hosting major sports events will be held in Manchester, England, immediately after the Commonwealth Games this year.

AIM-listed ocean racing and marine events company Clipper Ventures plc has signed up the port of Liverpool to host the Clipper 2002 around-the-world yacht race.

An English Worthington Cup semi-final match, shown on ITV Sport, the sports channel operated by ITV Digital, has failed to register a single ratings point.

Coverage of the first Australian Open Grand Slam meeting between British tennis’s Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman will be shown on BBC television.

In a joint appointment, the Six Nations Committee and the British and Irish Lions have named John Feehan as their new commercial director.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that it may delay the bidding for the US television rights to the 2012 Winter Olympics due to the downturn in the American economy.

Kelly Hollis has been promoted to the post of Director of International Television for the NBA and will be based at the franchise's Paris offices.

English Premier League soccer club Arsenal has selected Sir Robert McAlpine to carry out construction work on its new 60,000-seater stadium in London.

Talks between rival UK digital broadcasters Sky Digital and ITV Digital over carriage of the ITV Sports Channel, have broken down.

Stadium naming rights is growing in attraction to brands in Europe as it looks to capitalise on a split in the media and audiences, according to the author of a market-leading report.