Sponsorship & Marketing

Internet search engine Galaxy.com has announced the sports category results of a competition to find the best web site on the net.

Media giant News International has created a new sales channel for sports and leisure goods manufacturers to push their products to market.

Television sales and marketing executive Jorge Enrique Berthely Noguera has joined ESPN International in the new position of affiliate sales director, based in Mexico City.

ESPN.com and Nike.com this fall are launching an online Nike store at ESPN.com - the first anchor store of the ESPN.com Mall - as ESPN.com re-launches its shopping area.

English Football League club Fulham has appointed its first ever female member of the board.

Brazilian soccer legend Pele has set up his own official web site in Portuguese to mark his 60th birthday.

Cornhill Insurance is preparing to bow out as sponsors of English Test cricket after a 22 year association with the English game.

ESPN International has appointed Berthely Noguera, a television sales and marketing executive with 14 years experience in Mexico, to the new position of affiliate sales director in Mexico City.

Yahoo! has signed three agreements to provide live video and audio broadcasts of collegiate sporting events covering 22 colleges and universities on Yahoo! Sports.

Sportal, the global provider of interactive sports content, has signed an extensive multi language sports content distribution deal with Yahoo! Europe.

?The X Games'' is fulfilling the two mandates that prompted ESPN to create them five years ago, according to Variety magazine.

SportsLine.com, publisher of CBS SportsLine.com, and Westwood One/ CBS Radio Sports are to provide live pre-game and post-game coverage of Sunday afternoon NFL Football for the second consecutive year.

The European Commission has accused Britain of undermining the fight against drugs in sport by resisting moves to give the 15-nation European Union power to take decisions on the issue.

The World Wrestling Federation is set for a legal showdown with the World Wildlife Fund over the right to use the initials WWF.

The NHL?s Carolina Hurricanes have hired a former executive with the Edmonton Oilers to oversee the team's marketing efforts and ticket sales.

The head of Sydney's Olympic Village has said a lone attacker rather than an organised terrorist group posed the biggest security threat to next month's Games.