Stadia

Germany and Portugal are due to take part in a series of international friendlies in South Korea to open new stadiums for the 2002 World Cup.

Jordan Grand Prix has created a series of web-based initiatives to redevelop its internet communications for the team?s fan-base, corporate sponsors and employees.

A pre-game promotion designed to entertain a capacity crowd of more than 92,000 at a rugby union international in Sydney on Saturday has been scrapped because of complaints it insulted New Zealand and Maori culture.

Multi-media company 365 Corporation has reported pre-tax first quarter losses of #7million ($10.2/?11.2m), but has slashed operating costs from #5.8m ($8.4/?9.3m) to #3.8m ($5.5m/?6m) in its bid for profitability.

UK bookmaker William Hill has appointed Julian Graham Rock as its head of business development for its e-commerce division.
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An inquiry into South Africa?s stadium disaster in April has learned that security guards accepted money to let fans into a stadium that they knew was already full.

Telewest Communications, the UK?s second largest cable company after NTL, is to launch a virtual interactive horse racing application called iRace which will compete with Go Racing?s (now renamed attheraces) own interactive television channel for genuine horse races.
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English soccer club Wimbledon is to again seek permission to move to a new stadium ? despite the Football League throwing out proposals earlier this month.

Brewery giant Carlsberg is to capitalise on England?s crunch soccer match against Germany this weekend with a special promotion via cellphones.
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Sports marketing firm 720 Degrees has secured a worldwide agreement to market SpeedTime including exclusive rights in the UK. SpeedTime is a new form of non-static perimeter advertising which has been developed by the International Sports Organisation (ISO).
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European internet TV firm, Kamera, has signed a deal to bring Italian soccer action to the web.
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Latin American pay-TV broadcaster, Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) has appointed Luis Baraldi to the post of vice president for programming, production and operations.

European soccer?s governing body, UEFA, has relaunched its website ? which will spearhead its new media division.

National Football League (NFL) team the Denver Broncos has unveiled a raft of new broadcasting initiatives for its Invesco Field stadium, done in partnership with AT&T Broadband and ESPN.

European internet sports network Sportal has finalised a new round of funding for its operations, which the company envisages will see it through to profitability in early 2002.

Colombia?s soccer team Deportivo Cali will start constructing its new stadium tomorrow.