Events

UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports has secured the exclusive live rights to the UEFA Cup home ties involving English Premiership clubs Leeds United and Chelsea.

ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.

Scottish soccer clubs Dundee and Dundee United have jointly submitted a multi-million pound bid to become a Euro 2008 venue should the tournament be awarded to Scotland.

The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow’s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.

Any company can put its name to Spanish soccer club Real Madrid's famous stadium in exchange for Pts3billion ($15.4m), according to president Florentino Perez's latest plans.

The U.S. Masters will break with tradition in 2002 by televising all 18 holes of the leaders' final round, officials announced on Thursday.

The protracted negotiations between the UK horse racing’s governing body The British Horseracing Board (BHB), and Go Racing, the syndicate that hopes to broadcast the sport, will finally come to a close by 10:30 today after lengthy negotiations last night between the two parties.

Fox Sports World Espanol, the Spanish-language US sports network, will broadcast coverage of this season’s Major League Soccer which runs throughout the summer.

Intrade, the betting exchange for trading on major sporting events modelled on financial exchanges, has told sportbusiness.com how the system will work when it opens for trading tomorrow.

HBO Enterprises has appointed Total Sports Asia (TSA) as its exclusive TV rights representative in Asia for boxing events.

US television ratings for the exhibition matchplay golf tournament dubbed the ‘Battle of Bighorn’ were disappointing for host broadcaster ABC.

The disciplinary committee of the Spanish National Football Federation (RFEF) meets today to discuss possible sanctions against Atletico Madrid soccer club after the disruptive behaviour of its radical fans Frente Atletico in a cup semi final against Zaragoza on Wednesday.

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB has won the support of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and commercial free-to-air broadcaster Channel 4 following a run-in with the BBC over televised rights access, sportbusiness.com has learned.

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.

The Bush administration will remain neutral on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, despite powerful appeals from members of Congress to oppose the proposal on human rights grounds.

The Welsh bid to host the 2009 Ryder Cup at the Wentwood Hills course received a boost after the local city council awarded the venue planning permission for course enhancements.