Media

BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.

Bookmaker Coral has announced the launch of its new UK-based online sports betting service ? and signed up an exclusive deal with soccer club Manchester United and the Formula 1 team Arrows.

Donald Sturm?s failed bid to buy the NHL Avalanche and NBA Nuggets teams could cost him dear after the city of Denver announced it was seeking $137,500 from Sturm after he pulled the plug on the deal.

Total Sports, the event-centred online sports media company, has announced the launch an official Web site of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Bookmakers have opposed the British government's decision to sell the state-owned Tote betting business to the racing industry on grounds it would be a virtual monopoly.

A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.

BSkyB has signed a long-term agreement with Tottenham Hotspur to design, develop and maintain the club?s Internet site.

The Australian Football League has launched a number of specially tailored Internet packages ? giving its large overseas fan base the opportunity to access video highlights and audio broadcasts of games.

Online sports media company Total Sports has teamed up with Air2Web ? a wireless web-based infrastructure services provider - to create a wireless application for sports fans to receive updated scores and news on their digital cellular phones.

English soccer fans are to lobby the British government at Westminster today after demanding more say in the running of the sport.

UK terrestrial digital broadcaster ONdigital has secured exclusive live coverage of the Tennis Masters Series and the Tennis Masters Cup.

NBA.com TV Daily ? a new global video service providing updates and highlights of NBA action from the night before ? has gone live today.

Celtic could soon leave the Scottish Premier League and join a new Atlantic League aimed at leading clubs who dominate Europe's second tier competitions, a club spokesman has said.

UK online betting service Bluesq.com has signed a $650,000 deal with sport-only radio station talkSPORT.

The head of the sports group of the European Broadcasting Union, Stefan Kuerten, has warned that football risked "overkill" on television and was in danger of propelling itself towards self-destruction.

English Premier League clubs are expected to suceed in winning the `deferred rights? to their games when the contract for TV rights to the lucrative league is renegotiated later this year.