Events

Cheltenham & Gloucester, the financial services company, has announced a three year sponsorship agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that will see the company become title sponsors of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, the premier One-Day knockout tournament in England and Wales.

Last week?s visit by IOC delegates to Paris to assess the city's plans for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games brought nothing to light which would endanger the bid, its organiser has said. For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.

Sports media technology Sportvision has teamed up with CBS Sports and SportsLine.com to deliver animated play analysis of the 2001 NCAA Men?s Basketball Championship.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the appointment of Malcolm Speed, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) chief, as its new chief executive.

Media group Vivendi Universal has confirmed that it was in talks with Germany's Bertelsmann about merging their sports rights interests to create a leading pan-European player.

Two of Europe?s broadcast giants are in talks to merge their sports operations, according to paytvtoday.com.

Formula One teams, car manufacturers and sponsors will resist any move by German media companies to shift their glamorous sport from free to pay television.

The head of Renault Sport says it is out of the question for Formula One racing to be broadcast on pay-television channels.

Communications firm Telstra has secured a naming rights deal for the 2001 International Soccer Expo, to be held in Australia in June.

Martina Hingis and Mary Pierce did not exactly blaze a trail for feminism when they played in the first women's tennis tournament in the Gulf region this week. But they were part of a quiet revolution taking place in the area.

Bayern Munich vice-president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has criticised governing bodies FIFA and UEFA and the European Union for the way they are handling soccer matters.

Australian owned event cleaning company Cleanevent have signed a contract with The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for day-to-day cleaning, including the period of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground, one of Australia?s greatest sporting venues, has purchased "Event Business Management Software" (EBMS) from St Louis, Missouri?based Ungerboeck Systems, Inc (USI).

Japan is fighting for a change in the title name of the 2002 World Cup finals because FIFA put South Korea ahead of them when they announced the joint Asian co-hosts in April 1996.

Turkey's soccer authorities will hold a tender for broadcasting rights next week in a bid to resolve a quarrel which has prevented the restart of the domestic season.

Online and telephone betting service betinternet.com have signed an exclusive broadcast and betting agreement with the Irish Greyhound Board, offering access to the Irish Tote.