Media

Poland's soccer authorities have sanctioned a range of measures, including a new soccer competition and an independent premier league, in an attempt to revive the ailing national game.

Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports and Olympics chairman, and Alan Ramadan, Quokka Sports co-founder and chief executive officer, have introduced NBC's expanded Olympic coverage at www.nbcolympics.com.

Broadcaster Grupo Televisa said on Tuesday it was looking for buyers for one of the three Mexican first division soccer clubs it owns.

UFA Sport has made a 12-year equity investment in Italian Serie B club, Sampdoria. The deal is believed to be worth between $50m-$60m over 12 years

Two years after announcing that the World Cup of golf would become the fourth World Championships event in 2000, U.S. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem admitted recently that it was unlikely to happen.

ISL Television is to exclusively represent the international broadcast rights to the five key domestic Brazilian football competitions under an agreement with the domestic rights-holders for Brazilian football: Clube dos Treze and Rede Globo.

The Nationwide Building Society has added to its UK soccer sponsorship portfolio by signing a three-year #500,000 sponsorship deal with the FA of Wales (FAW).

TVNZ, Loral Skynet and Warner Bros. have joined the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA).

The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.

Total Sports, a provider of online coverage of college sports, has added

Media research firm, Paul Kagan Associates (PKA), has reported that average NHL player salaries have increased faster than for any other major league sport over the past seven years

Representatives from UK soccer, cricket and tennis have urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to create a new Ministry of Sport. They have called for sport to be separated out from the current Culture, Media and Sport ministry and given its own high profile department.

Freeserve has agreed a two-year worldwide deal for Greg Rusedski to endorse its free Internet services. The deal comes just as Rusedski, who is currently ranked number nine in the world (ATP Tour), prepares for the start of the US Open tennis tournament.

The UK?S Independent Television Commission will this week write to BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball to inform him whether or not it will force the satellite broadcaster to make its last premium sports channel available to rival On Digital.

Dorna Sports, rights holders of the MotoGP series, has signed deals with five teams to take part in the new elite class of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix, which will be open to four-stroke bikes with engines of up to 990cc from 2002.

England Rugby, the new joint venture between the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Premier Rugby has appointed the largest independent television production company in the UK, TWI, to handle its sales of international television rights in overseas markets.