Media

Global Sports, the e-commerce company that operates under exclusive long-term agreements the Internet businesses of leading sporting goods retailers, including The Sports Authority, The Athlete's Foot, Sport Chalet, MC Sports, and Sports & Recreation, has signed a marketing agreement with Yahoo! the global Internet media company.

Broadband Interactive Group (BIG) has strengthened its TV offering, announcing an expanded deal with FOX Sports Net.

A number of chess players battling against world champion Garry Kasparov on a Microsoft web site this week accused the company of mishandling a move that denied them at least a highly-respectable draw.

NBA commissioner David Stern has said that even though attractive new venues beckon, no expansion is in the works and the league would prefer that teams stay in their current cities.

ESPN Internet Ventures (EIV), the leading online sports company, registered more than 1.3bn page views in October, the first time an Internet sports entity has accumulated more than one billion page views in a single month.

Goal Media Group, the global Internet soccer company, has announced the appointment of Keir Radnedge as executive editor.

Almost two-thirds (65%) of the UK adult population watched England play Scotland in the Euro 2000 soccer playoffs.

Major League Baseball has reached a deal with ESPN over the cable network?s placement of late-season Sunday night games.

Sportal, the independent Internet-based sports media company has announced the completion of a $50 million equity financing valuing the company at over $170 million.

Fogdog Sports has announced record order volume between Thanksgiving and Christmas, an increase of more than 750% over the number of orders placed during the same period last year.

The UK radio station Talk Radio is to be relaunched as an all-sport channel.

UEFA's legal team has moved quickly to thwart attempts by English Premier League players to copyright and earn money from their most famous goals.

Wpp.com has invested in TWI Interactive, the rapidly growing sports new media arm of IMG.

The lottery grant of #120m which bought Wembley may have to be paid back in full if the project is not given the go-ahead by planners in March.

Arena Leisure, which owns Lingfield, Britain's busiest racecourse, has agreed to buy the course at Folkestone in Kent for #3.25m.

Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.