Stadia

Melbourne?fs Colonial Stadium will persist with its experiment of a happy hour this weekend to encourage fans to turn up early and lessen the possibility of queues.

The relationship between Channel Seven and the Australian Football League appears to have turned nasty with the Seven Network signing a major sponsorship deal with brewery Lion Nathan.

Matthew Pennington has been appointed advertising director of Icons.com, the leading internet portal for several of the world?s top footballers.

A UK government select committee has led a critical inquiry into the nation?s capability to stage international events.

Sports.com is among the first internet companies to be awarded press accreditations by the IOC to report from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

The XFL may be accused of attracting poor primetime ratings on NBC, but the head of Fox Sports has said that the football league's innovations such as on-field cameras and microphones could have ``major ramifications'' for TV coverage of all other sports.

The NFL?s St. Louis Rams are seeking a new naming rights sponsor for the franchises? stadium following the bankruptcy in January of Trans World Airlines.

Alan Sugar's 10-year reign as the owner of Tottenham Hotspur ended on Wednesday when media group ENIC completed its purchase of his 26.9 percent holding, worth around 22 million pounds ($31.84 million).

English football club Arsenal have reported a rise in pre-tax profits for the last six months to nearly #33million ($47.5m).

Fulham Football Club, the English first division club owned by Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed, has been given the go-ahead by local councillors to build a 30,000 all-seater arena on the current Craven Cottage site.

The NFL has signed a five-year deal with Choiceseat to install SmartSeats at stadia.

The Indian cricket team are temporarily dropping a cigarette logo, following the government's move to end sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco firms.

Austrian and Swiss soccer officials will meet in Bern on March 9 to discuss a possible joint bid to host the 2008 European Championships, officials said on Tuesday.

The future of Irish soccer?s planned Eircom Park remains uncertain with the Football Association of Ireland now considering scrapping the project altogether.

Munich's Olympic stadium has witnessed some of the finest hours in Germany's rich footballing history but is unlikely to play any part in the 2006 World Cup finals.

Quokka Sports has signed a multi-year agreement with MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM), the interactive media company of Major League Baseball, to provide an official live-scoring technology platform.