Stadia

SportsLine.com, the leading global Internet sports media company and publisher of CBS SportsLine has signed a letter of intent to enter into a 10-year strategic relationship under which SportsLine.com's domestic e-commerce business will be acquired and operated by MVP.com.

Washington Redskins officials have rejected proposals to build a roof over Fedex Field on cost grounds, according to the Washington Post. "It was one of the things that was looked at while looking at ways to improve things at the stadium [but] it's not going to happen," spokesman Karl Swanson said. Snyder was considering making a bid to host the Super Bowl in 2012 in conjunction with the Baltimore-Washington region's bid to host the summer Olympic Games that year, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

The administrator in temporary charge of Atletico Madrid appealed for support from fans on Tuesday, insisting the club was in no danger of being wound up. Last week Luis Manuel Rubi was handed control by a high court judge until March 31 after president Jesus Gil and his board were removed from their positions amid an investigation into alleged embezzlement at the Spanish first division club. There had been concerns among Atletico fans that the club could be declared bankrupt or demoted to the third division but Rubi, in his first public comments since taking over, sought to allay those fears on Tuesday. "It's unthinkable that the club should disappear," Rubi told a news conference at the club's Vicente Calderon stadium. "We want the best for this club.

A soccer team from San Diego, Calif., says it plans to go public - the first professional U.S. soccer club to make such a move.

Australian newspaper reports say that plans to allow sightseers free entry into Sydney Olympic Park during the 2000 Games have displeased giant American television broadcaster NBC. NBC Sports head Dick Ebersol indicated yesterday he was not happy about the Homebush Bay Olympic site being turned into a "party and picnic" area for the Games. Ebersol, whose network is spending $1 billion to broadcast the Olympics, said he would have preferred the site closed to non-ticketholders at least during the first week of competition.

Australian Football League club Brisbane Lions has signed a A$3 million three-year sponsorship deal with mobile phone company Cellular One.

CBS has increased it stakes in SportsLine.com, Inc. by exercising warrants to purchase 380,000 shares at $20.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to Sportsline.com of $7.6 million.

The shareholders of AS Roma have approved the club seeking an IPO, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

English Premier League soccer club Leicester City has pulled out of plans to build a new 40,000-seat stadium in the city.

San Diego and the city's professional baseball team have filed separate lawsuits to try to quash a proposed ballot initiative that seeks a second vote on a $1 billion ballpark and redevelopment project.

UK-based soccer news Internet site Teamtalk.com is to be spun off by its owner IMS and floated on the stock market.

IMG Motorsports and Marconi have agreed that Marconi Systems will become title sponsor of Cleveland's CART racing event.

XM Satellite Radio and NASCAR, have announced a strategic alliance to create the first 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, all-NASCAR radio channel exclusively for XM Radio, making NASCAR the first sports property to announce a satellite radio partnership.

English Premier League club Aston Villa has won approval from Birmingham city council to expand its Villa Park stadium, increasing capacity to more than 50,000 from 39,200.

English Premier League soccer club, and European Champions, Manchester United, are believed to have turned down the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in history by rejecting a deal put on the table by Emirates Airlines ? believed to be in the region of #7.5m ($12m) a year.

Randy Levine has been named president of the New York Yankees and will be in charge of business operations and preside over player contract negotiations.