Events

Tour de France director Jean-Marie Leblanc is confident that no raids by police searching for drugs will tarnish this year's version of cycling's biggest race which starts this weekend in Dunkirk.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it has signed a three-year contract to become the official information technology supplier to the Tour de France cycling race through to 2003.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Brisbane Capital Corp is to purchase the shares of Eventco, the Californian sports entertainment company wholly owned by Leon Hatcher.

Temporary access specialists for sporting events Eve Trakway has installed a pedestrian bridge for this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament as part of a three-year deal with the All England Lawn tennis and Croquet Club

Negotiating sports rights is in dire need of reform in the wake of the collapse of marketing giants ISMM, a sports rights conference in Paris has been told.

Some European soccer clubs are on the verge of liquidation, Virginie Lannevere, a sports analyst at HSBC, told delegates at the Sports Events Products and Rights conference in Paris yesterday.

Fox Sports Net (FSN) will continue to broadcast its boxing showpiece ‘Sunday Night Fights’ for a further five years after agreeing a new deal with America Presents.

The NFL is close to signing a five-year, $110 million deal with America Online, Viacom and CBS Sportsline making it the biggest internet sports-rights package ever.

While the sports industry may sometimes over-inflate its value to media operators, it seems the merger agreement between rival Italian pay-TV outfit’s Stream and Telepiu was greatly motivated by sports rights issues, a leading UK media analyst has told sportbusiness.com.

Tom.com, the media and advertising company controlled by Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-Shing, has won the broadcast and advertising rights to China’s national basketball league, adding to its portfolio of Chinese volleyball, table tennis, rowing and college soccer rights.

UK soccer fans will be able to watch Saturday night English Premiership soccer highlights on terrestrial television from 7pm GMT, broadcaster ITV announced today.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has been buying advertising slots from the media companies that broadcast its tournaments in a move which it hopes will secure advertising space for its major sponsors such as Mercedez-Benz.

New York's international network, many hotels and plans to build new sports arenas amounted to a strong bid to stage the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, a United States Olympic Committee (USOC) panel said.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the PGA Tour's procedures for determining playing positions in Senior PGA Tour events, setting aside claims from golfer Harry Toscano.

The people of Utah are finding out how the 2002 Winter Olympics will affect them and their communities after a series of open houses was introduced to educate and inform residents.

Boxing promoters Cedric Kushner Boxing (CKB), Inc plans to reverse into Zenascent, Inc, the former internet technology and e-commerce incubator company listed on New York's over the counter billboard market, as part of a merger agreement.