Stadia
MARLINS 2001 STADIUM ODYSSEY
Florida Marlins president Don Smiley is telling potential investors the franchise could move by the year 2001 if it can?t get a new stadium built in South Florida.
SPORTSLINE TRAFFIC SOARS
SportsLine USA, publishers of CBS.SportsLine.com, is reporting radicaly increasedWeb traffic for the second quarter of 1998 on all its sites on The Internet.
MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX SIGNS UP QANTAS
Qantas has signed a one-year sponsorship deal with the Australian Grand Prix Corporation to back this year's Australian 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix.
KOREANS RAISE DOUBTS OVER 2002 FINALS
Chung Joon-moon, the head of the South Korean federation, has again asked for the 2002 World Cup tournament to be put back from June and July to September to avoid their rainy season.
AXA TO SPONSOR FA CUP
The Football Association has announced a new #25million four-year sponsorship deal for the FA Cup with insurance giants AXA.
SPORTING VENUES DECIDE TO BUTT OUT
The Sydney Cricket Ground has been declared smoke free.
GAS LEAK AT STADIUM OF LIGHT
English soccer club Sunderland has been forced to carry out emergency work at its new #15 million stadium after the discovery of gas leaks.
KEEP YANKS IN BRONX SAY NEW YORKERS
Most New Yorkers want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx and are against building a stadium in Manhattan - even if that were the only way to keep the baseball team in New York, a poll has shown.
COPYRIGHT PROMOTIONS SIGNS RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION
Copyright Promotions Group is to handle worldwide product licensing for the Rugby Football Union.
CITY INVESTOR TAKES ON OXFORD UNITED FC
Work will re-start this Autumn on Oxford United's #15 million stadium after a mystery buyer emerged to save the debt-ridden club.
OILERS TO CHANGE NAME
Team owner Bud Adams, who moved the Oilers from Houston to Tennessee after the 1996 season, has announced that the NFL franchise will change its nickname before the 1999 season.
SLOW START FOR MERCOSUR CUP
South America's latest club soccer tournament, a made-for-television affair called the Mercosur Cup, was met with stunning indifference as it kicked off this week.
MCG SPELLS $6M A YEAR
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) may sell naming rights to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for $A6m a year.
GOODWILL GAMES SECURE FUTURE
Packaged television sport for a global cable audience has ensured the immediate future of the Goodwill Games.
SAN DIEGO PADRES BALLPARK PLAN HEADS TO VOTERS
A $411 million plan to build a new home for the Padres baseball team and renovate downtown San Diego took a step closer to reality Tuesday when the city council voted to place the issue on the November ballot.
LEDECKY BUYING STAKE IN CINCINNATI REDS.
Millionaire businessman Jonathan Ledecky has agreed to buy a 6.67 percent stake in the Cincinnati Reds, the oldest franchise in Major League Baseball, from Frisch's Restaurants Inc.
IBM TO END OLYMPIC PARTNERSHIP
The International Olympic Committee have confirmed that IBM will conclude their association with the Olympic games after Sydney 2000.
EC approves Canal+ control of AOL France
The European Commission has given the go-ahead for pay TV group Canal Plus and French telephone company Cegetel to take a majority stake in America Online France.