Stadia

The new Docklands Stadium in Melbourne and the Melbourne Cricket Ground will complement each other.

New Jersey State Governor Christie Whitman has announced she will help prepare a plan for moving the Yankees across the Hudson River if one is requested by an advisory panel that the team's owner, George Steinbrenner ??..

The Fleet Financial Group in Boston has announced that it will supply a $405m credit line to Major League Baseball.

South African rugby boss Louis Luyt has announced he would defy a black-led demand for his head, setting the stage for another period of isolation for white South Africa's favourite sport.

Graeme McMahon, chairman of the Essendon Australian Football Club has announced that the club intends to base itself at Melbourne's Docklands Stadium.

The South Australian Parliament's Public Works Committee, in a four to one decision, have claimed not enough evidence exists to support spending $A18.5 million on stage two of the Hindmarsh Stadium upgrade.

English Premiership soccer club Newcastle United is being frustrated by a conservation watchdog in its attempts to redevelop its St James Park stadium.

Eighteen Australian National Rugby League teams have their own Internet web sites.

Malaysia's Sports Ministry will market the main stadium, indoor stadium and other facilities built for the Commonwealth Games to those wishing to use them after September, the New Stratits Times reported.

Australia's Channel Seven has acquired rights to use the Olympic Games logo by becoming an official TV sponsor of the Games, which has cost the station millions of dollars.

The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) has foreshadowed an efficient, workable display of technology for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, to avoid repeating the extravagant debacles of the Atlanta 1996 Games.

The managing director of Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), James Packer, has announced a new seven-year deal between the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) and the Nine Network.

Overseas fans are snapping up new seating packages for the Sydney Olympics according to Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, Juan Antonio Samaranch, received a red carpet welcome to Sydney on 25 April 1998, when he attended a 25th anniversary function for the Kenvale College of tourism and hospitality management.

English brewing company Vaux Breweries beat off stiff competition to extend their Sunderland sponsorship for another three years in a deal worth #1.7m.

The Swiss government has unveiled plans to invest up to SwFr 80m in sporting facilities of national importance between 2000 to 2005.