Media
U.S. WRESTLERS TO COMPETE IN IRAN AGAIN
American wrestlers will attend an international tournament in Iran in September, months after a groundbreaking visit by a U.S. team which launched exchanges between the two hostile countries.
FRENCH POLICE IN TVM HOTEL RAID
The doping scanadal which threatens the commercial credibility of the troubled Tour de France has flared again after French authorities raided the hotel of Dutch team TVM after the race's 16th stage taking four riders for medical tests.
TNT TAKES ITS FIRST SWING AT BOXING
Boxing will appear on a Turner network for the first time, when lightweight champion Shane Mosley headlines a Sept. 22 Madison Square Garden fight card on cable network TNT.
MORE CAMERAS FOR COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Cricket authorities are likely to come under pressure to increase the jurisdiction of the third umpire following the planned use of slow motion replays in non-televised matches at next month's Commonwealth Games.
NICKELODEON JOINS HOMER RACE
Childrens cabler TV company Nickelodeon will join the hoopla surrounding Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's pursuit of the single-season home run record by running daily "Home Run Record Race" vignettes each night beginning today.
ABC’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL DISAPPOINTS
ABC's "Monday Night Football" is off to what's apparently its worst ratings start ever - despite hype surrounding the new early start time.
MEDIA PARTNERS "ENCOURAGED" BY EU REACTION
Media Partners head Rodolfo Hecht has said he was encouraged by the willingness of the EU to consider the merits of his Super League proposal.
KIRCH IN FOR TYSON RIGHTS
German media magnate Leo Kirch has acquired the televison rights for any future fights by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson outside the United States, Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.
MAORI TRIBE PART OWNER OF NZ WARRIORS
A New Zealand syndicate backed by the Maori Tainui tribe are the new owners of the Auckland Warriors rugby league side after the city's league clubs agreed to the sale late on Tuesday.
49’ERS SAY CLARK WONT JOIN BROWNS
The San Francisco 49ers have quashed rumors that Dwight Clark, the club's executive vice president, is about join friend and former 49ers president Carmen Policy to help assemble the new Cleveland Browns.
METS, PIAZZA CLOSE TO RECORD DEAL
The New York Mets and Mike Piazza are close to a long-term contract agreement that could make the All-Star catcher the highest paid player in baseball, according to broadcast reports.
HEADACHES FOR PAN AM ORGANISERS
FIFA concerns have 1999 Pan American Games organisers scrambling to save their soccer tournament in next summer's multi-sport extravaganza.
FIA SAYS EC CANNOT RULE ON F1 AGREEMENT
Motor sport's ruling body has dismissed any suggestion that a media rights deal it had negotiated with racing mogul Bernie Ecclestone could be nullified by the European Commission.
DAVIS CUP REFORMS CONSIDERED ON EVE OF CENTENARY
Organisers are considering radical reforms to the Davis Cup on the eve of its centenary in a bid to enhance its appeal and make the top players take it seriously, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has said.
DILLER’S WAMI-TV PAY FOR MARLINS
Reinforcing its image as South Florida's pre-eminent sports carrier, Barry Diller's local programming station WAMI-TV has bought a six-year exclusive broadcast rights to baseball's Florida Marlins.
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE BATTLES TO PROTECT TV DEAL
English soccer's premier league has said top clubs could be lured away to a European super league if it loses a landmark legal hearing into the way television rights to its matches are sold.
ITALY SEEN SETTING 60 PCT ROOF ON TV SOCCER RIGHTS
The Italian government are to prepare new rules limiting a single digital television broadcaster from owning more than 60 percent of rights to the total amount of football games, an Italian newspaper has reported.
SAMARANCH PAINTS DEPRESSING DRUGS PICTURE
Olympic boss Juan Antonio Samaranch has painted a depressing picture of sport's drug problems when he opened a world conference on doping.