Events

Speedway Motorsports, Inc. has reported that total revenues for the fourth quarter increased 45% or $23.4 million to $75.7 million, compared to last year.

The 2000 NBA All-Star Game, taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area, February 11- 13, will be shown in 205 countries, with a potential audience of 750million households.

It may have only taken four minutes, but the financial fall-out of Mike Tyson?s latest return to the ring proved a very profitable one, according to reports.

Credit Suisse Group has said it would no longer sponsor the Tour of Switzerland or the Swiss team because of the sport's declining popularity following a spate of doping scandals.

Russian football bosses are demanding extremely tight security at all domestic league matches after two bomb blasts in Moscow killed more than 130 people in four days.

The price of a 30 second commercial spot for this season's Super Bowl telecast has risen by 25% to a record $2 million, according to advertising buyers quoted by Associated Press.

Continuing the trend towards combined ownership of more than one sports franchise, the owners of Minnesota's NBA and NHL teams are were working on a deal to buy the Minnesota Twins, contingent upon the construction of a new stadium in St. Paul.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair threw open his Downing Street doors to a delegation from world soccer's governing body FIFA yesterday, hoping to convince them to back England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.

The beleaguered organisers of the Rugby World Cup have criticised ITV's coverage of the event as a "disgrace" according to a report in the UK?s Guardian newspaper.

Senegal lawyer Lamine Diack is present his case today to retain control of the world governing athletics body after the death of International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) president Primo Nebiolo this month.

Bundesliga director Wilfried Straub has described reports that the broadcast rights to the Bundesliga will be sold exclusively to pay TV next season as "premature".

FOXSports.com, the Internet unit of News Corp.'s Fox Sports division, has launched 18 regional Web sites. The new sites mirror the regional approach of FOX Sports Net sites and offer a new vehicle for local advertisers.

The British government said on Wednesday it was scrapping plans to redevelop Wembley stadium to host athletics and would focus instead on upgrading the ground for soccer and rugby league.

FieldTurf Inc. and FieldTurf International, Inc. have announced that they have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against Southwest Recreational Industries, Inc. the maker of the synthetic grass sports surface known as Astroturf, for unlawful acts of patent infringement and anti-trust violations.

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

The Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), a new, 24-hour, all sports cable and satellite digital television network directed at sports fans throughout Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, will debut on Tuesday, February 15 with the live, exclusive broadcast of Copa Libertadores, the region's most important football event.