Stadia

The search has started for a company willing to pay to have its name associated with the Docklands Stadium, Melbourne, Australia.

International Management Group (IMG) and Global Sportnet the German marketing and consultanting group have joined forces to offer marketing services to first and second division German Bundesliga football clubs.

The French government is to be asked to approve a re-financing package for the $400 million Stade de France which will stage the soccer World Cup final.

International athletics chief Primo Nebiolo has said he no longer fears the stadium for next year's world championships will not be ready on time.

The ten US cities biding for the 2012 Olympic Games are facing a June 30 deadline to name a board of directors and governance structure to their organisations.

TONY George, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is seeking a reply within days from F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone on a bid to revive the US Grand Prix in 2000 in the dramatic setting of the famous Indy 500 "Brickyard" stadium.

The 2004 Olympics in Athens could be a disaster without proper planning, the head of the organising committee said on Thursday.

The English Football Association hopes to collect #12million by selling the rights to sponsor the England football team in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup.

WEMBLEY, the leisure group, is handing back cash to investors by way of a share buy-back. Almost half its capital will be returned to shareholders following the planned #103m sale of its stadium to English National Stadium Trust.

Sydney 2000 Olympics organisers have said the cost of staging the Games had blown up by A$150 million (US$90 million), largely because of an increase in the number of events.

Baseball could stage its first world cup as early as 2001.

The France 98 internet site has broken through one billion hits in just over a year of operation following a record 68 million hits on Friday, officials said on Monday.

A Florida financial broker has signed the NFL?s biggest stadium naming rights deal.

Japan and South Korea may already have flown home from the World Cup finals but their supporters have made a lasting impression on FIFA, the sport's governing body, which is dedicated to cleaning up the game.

The recently formed Sports and Outdoor Media International Plc will be valued at #23.4m when it floats on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London.

Thousands more of the best seats in Sydney's new Olympic Stadium will become available to ordinary sports fans under a major membership deal announced yesterday.