Stadia

International Olympic Committee (IOC) representatives completed a seven-day visit to East Timor on Wednesday aimed at helping the tiny country establish its own National Olympic Committee.

The troubled Millennium Cup soccer tournament has suffered a fresh setback with officials canceling a third-place playoff to cut losses.

France's soccer team may still be world champions, but the country's accountants have issued a red card to the French state for lavishly funding the 1998 World Cup and a new space-age stadium at taxpayers' expense.

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has recruited Ezra Kucharz into the new position of managing director, advanced media.

Greece's finance ministry and the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee (ATHOC) have signed a memorandum of cooperation and understanding designed to streamline procedures ahead of the Games.

Sports and Outdoor Media (SOMI) is rebranding following its acquisition by Sportsworld Media Group last March.

German media giant Kirch , which is engaged in a bid to rescue ailing EM.TV & Merchandising, has said that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had bought a 2.48 percent stake in KirchMedia KGaA.

Planning permission has finally been granted to renovate Munich?s Olympic Stadium, the Olympiastadion, home to German soccer?s glamour club, Bayern Munich.

The Six Nations championship could witness its first indoor match if the Welsh heavens open in dramatic fashion in the next three months.

Peter Casey has been named as the new vice president of the minor league hockey team Philadelphia Phantoms, owned by Comcast-Spetacor in the US.

American Seating has promoted Chuck Baily to the position of national sales manager for the sports seating segment of the Architectural Products Group.

Invesco Funds Group has submitted a formal proposal to buy the naming rights for the new Denver Broncos stadium - the first viable bid on the $400 million project.

With only weeks to go before the launch of the XFL American football league, XFL President Basil DeVito is confident that the ?reality show wrapped inside America?s most popular game, ? will surpass original revenue forecasts.

Campbell Soup Company has secured the naming rights for the new home of minor league baseball team the Camden Riversharks.

IOC marketing director Michael Payne has endorsed the Olympic movement's brand management strategy for the Sydney Games following a "full debrief" on Olympic sponsorship issues at an IOC meeting in New York.

Wembley redevelopment company chairman Rodney Walker dismissed reports that London soccer premier league club Arsenal could move to the rebuilt national stadium.