Stadia

The Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is moving a step closer to realising his ambitions for a #200 million national sports stadium in Dublin, according to The Irish Times newspaper.

Advertisers of Super Bowl television coverage this year will pay, on average, more than $2 million for 30 seconds of time before an audience that Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network predicts will exceed 120 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Tickets.com has signed two new ticketing contracts for the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Delphi Indy 200.

NBA Commissioner David Stern has launched a major reorganisation of NBA Entertainment and NBA Properties, through which the operations of the two companies will be combined under the leadership of NBA Entertainment President Adam Silver.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, have chosen FieldTurf as their artificial grass supplier.

A U.S. judge has blocked a Canadian web site from broadcasting copyrighted U.S. television shows until next month, when he hears arguments in lawsuits brought by ten Hollywood movie studios, three TV networks and two professional sports leagues.

Deutsche Bank AG will lead manage German soccer club Borussia Dortmund's planned public listing early this year, magazine Euro am Sonntag has reported.

Co-hosts Nigeria have doubled the prices of tickets for the remanining matches of their national team in the African Nations Cup.

London, a city at present without a suitable athletics stadium, will submit its bid for the 2005 world championships on time today.

IMS, the telephony and Internet group, is targeting March for the demerger and flotation of its sports news and telephone service division Teamtalk.com.

British Sky Broadcasting will shortly announce the acquisition of a 5% stake in Sportal with the option to increase this to 12.5% , according to a report in the UK?s Observer newspaper.

Northern Light Technology, a leading Internet search engine, and the Indy Racing League have agreed that Northern Light will be the series sponsor of the Indy Racing League.

Fogdog Sports has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1999.

Internet Sports Network has reported that the SEC has completed its review of the company and that ISN is now again a fully registered reporting company and eligible for quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board.

Peacock Real Estate Development Corporation (PDC), the wholly owned subsidiary of Peacock Financial Corporation, has signed an agreement with Milwaukee-based The Stadium Game, LLC to assist TSG in identifying stadium, arena, recreational and entertainment facility development opportunities in the Western United States.

Predict It Inc., an Internet service which measures, identifies, ranks and rewards users based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports, finance, politics, and entertainment, has signed a distribution agreement with the Meadowlands Racetrack.