Media

The NFL?s wireless service has already attracted more than 10,000 users.

WNBA basketball will bounce from Lifetime to ESPN2 next season. Although Lifetime still has two more years left on its six-year deal with the WNBA, both parties decided the games would fare better on an all-sports network than the women's cable channel.

The NHL?s Montreal Canadiens is likely to be sold this week to a group that includes telecom giant BCE Inc.

A proposed ban on cigarette advertisements in Hungary has shocked tobacco producers and could jeopardise Formula One races in the country.

Following a flat year on the business side of the US motorsports industry, H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and chief operating officer of Speedway Motorsports, Inc, has said that the growth experienced by the industry, and NASCAR Winston Cup racing in particular, during the 1990s will resume in 2001.

Shares in English premier league soccer club Tottenham Hotspur Plc have surged after weekend newspapers reported that the club's chairman, Alan Sugar, would sell his stake.

The Salt Lake City bribery scandal is likely to haunt the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in his first year in charge, according to prospective candidate Jacques Rogge.

Athens Olympics organisers (ATHOC) are forecasting revenues from TV rights for the 2004 Games will rise 16.5 percent from the Sydney figure to $800 million.

Wembley plc?s wholly owned subsidiary 24dogs.com, the greyhound racing information and betting site, has signed exclusive partnership agreements with greyhound tracks at Poole, Milton Keynes and Swindon.

Broadcast sponsorship of Eurosport?s coverage of the Olympic Games was a huge success, according to a survey of European television viewers.

The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) has signed a six-year deal worth $400million (US$216 million) with Australia's biggest pay television company Foxtel.

Eurobet has launched an electronic marketplace that enables sports fans to make wagers directly with other fans without the involvement of bookmakers.

ESPN.com will offer sports fans the opportunity to interact with an audio broadcast of a sports event when it provides exclusive audio for the Jimmy V Classic next Tuesday featuring Tennessee vs. Virginia and Seton Hall vs. Michigan State.

UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner says that the Champions League needs to be reformed to prevent fans losing interest in the tournament, according to a report in a British newspaper.

Online betting SportsBetting.com has launched Football Mania - a free prediction contest on this year's NCAA College Bowl Games.

Orad Hi-Tec Systems has launched its new `Clickable Video? concept.