Events
RWC CHAIRMAN BLASTS ITV COVERAGE
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.
DIACK MAKES BID FOR LEADERSHIP OF IAAF
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 TV TALKS CONTINUE
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".
FOX LAUNCHES REGIONAL WEB SITES
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.
ATHLETICS OFF WEMBLEY AGENDA
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 SUES ASTROTURF MAKER
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 ALLIANCE FORGED
Extreme Interactive and Nirve Sports have formed an alliance over the distribution of sports programming.
PAN-AMERICAN SPORTS NETWORK SETS LAUNCH DATE
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.
SWISS TO INVEST SWFR 80M IN SPORTS FACILITIES
The Swiss government has unveiled plans to invest up to SwFr 80m in sporting facilities of national importance between 2000 to 2005.
CBC TO BROADCAST COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has become the latest to sign up as a rights holder for the KL Commonwealth Games.
EURO MPS SUE WORLD CUP ORGANISERS OVER TICKETS
Thirty members of the European Parliament have taken the French organisers of the soccer World Cup to court to force them to redistribute hundreds of thousands of tickets abroad.
TIME WARNER AND NBC TO FORM NEW PRO LEAGUE
Two TV networks that lost out in the high-stakes bidding to televise NFL games face major hurdles in realising their ambition to form a new pro football league, according to advertising executives.
GAME SIX CLINCHES RATINGS RECORD
NBC has clinched a record NBA Finals rating with a sixth-game overnight score that may also be the top single-game rating in league history.
FA GOAL IS #12M FOR ENGLAND’S SPONSOR
The English Football Association hopes to collect #12million by selling the rights to sponsor the England football team in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup.
SKY SPORTS TO SHARE CHANNEL 5’S DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL SERVICE
British Sky broadcasting, the News Corp-owned UK pay TV company, will be free to broadcast one of its sports channels on spare digital bandwidth allocated to Channel 5.
REAL MADRID APPOINTS ZONE AND DELOITTE & TOUCHE
European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.
POLICY, LERNER AND MAYBE SEIFERT JOIN BROWN’S BIDDING
Carmen Policy who resigned last week after seven years as president of the 49ers, has announced that he and billionaire banker Al Lerner are applying to buy the Cleveland expansion team that begins play in 1999.
SAN DIEGO PADRES BALLPARK PLAN HEADS TO VOTERS
A $411 million plan to build a new home for the Padres baseball team and renovate downtown San Diego took a step closer to reality Tuesday when the city council voted to place the issue on the November ballot.