Sponsorship & Marketing

Octagon has appointed Swee Sin Wu as vice president of business development for Octagon in Asia.

Walt Disney Co are to shut down its struggling Internet portal, GO.com, with heavy redundancies, but will maintain other web operations like ESPN and ABCNEWS.com.

Online ticketing company ts.com has acquired Cisco Powered Network status, a quality standard awarded to companies offering the highest levels of network reliability and security.

Paul Phipps has been appointed as the new vice president of sales and marketing for motorsports entertainment company International Speedway Corporation.

The official website of the ATP has been relaunched with a new name ? atptennis.com - and a new design.

Super Bowl XXXV was a ratings winner for CBS but a relative dud compared with past games as the Baltimore Ravens killer defence dazzled the New York Giants but failed to draw record numbers of viewers.

Swiss marketing giant ISL has told staff in the tennis department at its London base they will be redeployed elsewhere within the company if it concludes its existing deal with the ATP.

FIBA SuproLeague chiefs say they are open to resume talks with teams in the rival breakaway league in a bid to protect the credibility of top level European club basketball.

Andrew Craig, the former CART CEO has admitted to sportbusiness.com that he part of a group making a bid for troubled Swiss marketing agency ISL.

The European Commission has signalled an end to its lengthy investigation into how motor racing is run.

Seven Network Limited has advised the Australian Football League that it would not accept its offer to match the News Limited led consortium bid for broadcast television rights for seasons 2002-2006.

ISL CEO Daniel Beauvois has told sportbusiness.com that he categorically denies that the Swiss marketing giant is on the verge of bankruptcy, saying that it was nothing but a `storm in a tea-cup? ? despite rising fears within the industry that ISL is in severe trouble.

ISL says there will be no threat of any jobs being lost despite claims the company is suffering major financial hardship.

Sports marketing firm Millsport has hired Bruce Angus as vice president, Millsport International.

ISL has hit out at any suggestions it is struggling to meet its payments to soccer?s world governing body FIFA ? amid concerns within the marketing firm that it is the victim of a smear campaign.

Sportbusiness.com has obtained the full report by US stockbrokers AG Edwards, which downgraded CART shares last week ?due to uncertainty in regards to our ISL sponsorship guarantee?.