Stadia

Minnesota officials are not shutting the door on the Minnesota Twins professional baseball team in the wake of the recent defeat of a stadium financing referendum in North Caroling.

Sports management groups in Australia say that sponsorship dollars are harder to come by because they are being siphoned off to Olympic contracts, the Australian Financial review reports.

Deloitte & Touche corporate Finance has been appointed as exclusive Corporate Advisor to the Natal Rugby Union (NRU).

Police stationed near the main stadium for the forthcoming World Cup should have a pay rise in recognition of the extra work they will have to put in during the soccer competition, the main police union said on Wednesday.

Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.

British Petroleum Co and north east England football club Newscastle United plc have announced plans to create the world's largest solar-powered sports stadium.

Romanian national coach Anghel Iordanescu has accused the country's soccer authorities of endangering the country's World Cup chances by denying him funds, facilities and competitive warm-up matches.

Ticketmaster Online, including its sports ticket operation, sold 522,926 tickets worth $19.5 million over its internet site during the first quarter ended April 30, 1998.

Newmarket, headquarters of British flat racing, on Monday unveiled plans for a new stand, the most expensive project at a British racecourse.

London based Sports and Outdoor Media International has acquired The Boyer Group, Australia's principal sports stadia and outdoor advertising company.

Vandals have damaged equipment at a new indoor gymnastics stadium being built for September's Commonwealth Games, delaying the transfer of the complex to Malaysian authorities by at least a month.

Thousands of Australian builders downed tools in protest over wages and conditions on Wednesday, stopping work at dozens of major construction projects including the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games site.

Algeria's top soccer league will turn professional in the 1999-2000 season, Algerian state-run radio has said, quoting Sport and Youth Minister Aziz Derouaz.

Polish soccer is in crisis after being ruled by an ageing, incompetent and scandal-prone clique which has failed to grasp free market realities since communism fell in 1989, the sports minister has said.

Thirty members of the European Parliament have taken the French organisers of the soccer World Cup to court to force them to redistribute hundreds of thousands of tickets abroad.

Florida Marlins fans took their anger over the team's losing record from the stadium to the courts Tuesday, and began to sue the baseball club for dismantling the winners of last year's World Series.