Events

UK commercial broadcast network ITV has signed a deal with beer firm Carlsberg to sponsor its coverage of soccer?s Euro 2000 tournament this summer.

Brazil will mark its soccer centenary in 2002 with a new headquarters and visitor centre in Rio de Janeiro.

Said CSA president Jim Fleming: "We have requested this information from FIFA with a view towards submitting a bid for the 2003 World Youth Championship

The European Tour has announced it is moving beyond its traditional confines with Brazil hosting two events this year for the first time.

Several private equity firms are looking into the possibility of competing for Premier League broadcast rights, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

PSINet , the Internet solutions provider and full sponsor of Euro 2000, expects up to 150 million hits per day next summer from visitors to the official Euro 2000 site - a figure which would break records for daily site usage. World Cup France '98 recorded 70 million hits per day compared to less than a million hits per day for Euro 96.

NFL owners have unanimously approved the sale of the New York Jets to Robert Wood Johnson IV.

Former World Cup hero, Sir Bobby Charlton, championing England's campaign to host the 2006 World Cup, has appealed to Africans to support England if two bids from their own continent are unsuccessful.

United Sport, media partner to the BT Global Challenge 2000/1 has secured three major broadcast deals for the round-the-world race.

Uli Hoeness, commercial manager of Germany's richest football club, Bayern Munich, has backed a decision by the German Football Association to allow pay-per-view broadcasts of Bundesliga soccer matches.

Simon Green has been named the new general manager of Sky Sports Online ? the sports site run by broadcast giant BSkyB.

Extreme Interactive and Nirve Sports have formed an alliance over the distribution of sports programming.

Cameroon's Issa Hayatou won a new term as president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), easily defeating Angolan Armando Machado at a CAF congress.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has repeated that he felt the the World Cup finals in 2006 should go to Africa.

South African cricket president Raymond White is facing a motion to oust him as a campaign to appoint a non-white chief executive gathers momentum.

Rupert Murdoch wants to take full control of German TV station tm3 to allow him to sell its Champions League soccer broadcast rights to other channels, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung has reported.