Stadia

An Australian Federal Court ruling, which obliges pay-TV company Foxtel to distribute Seven Network Ltd's C7 Sport channels, could be defied.

3Com, which has just renewed its naming rights to the former Candlestick Park through next season, has set up about 50 transmitters in the stadium offering fans wireless internet access.

Sportal, the UK-based internet sports provider, has become the first purely dot.com company to join BIPA, the British Internet Publishers Alliance.

Even though he scrapped his October 5 deadline to deliver a football and baseball stadium proposal to the city council, Philadelphia mayor John Street on Thursday reinforced his commitment to build two new stadia for the city.

Sydney?s two major stadia, the Stadium Australia Group's Stadium Australia and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust's Sydney Football Stadium, have become keen commercial rivals.

Sports.com, the mobile and fixed internet provider of European sports content, achieved a new single-day record of 6.5 million page views during the Olympic Games.

Ambush marketing was less of an issue in Sydney than at past Olympics but a spat has emerged between major brewers Carlton & United and Lion Nathan.

The potential of sport in the streaming media and broadband content industry will be just one of the issues discussed at a conference in London next week.

Tickets for England?s forthcoming tests against Australia and South Africa have sold out faster than for any previous autumn internationals at Twickenham Stadium.

Technology Holdings, a joint venture company formed by Comcast Corporation and QVC, has closed a $40.8 million strategic investment in Global Sports.

Digital sports content provider Quokka Sports has closed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Golf.com, the golf internet property.

The final ever event to be staged at London?s Wembley Stadium before it is demolished takes place on November 2.

Rhino Internet Solutions and Maricopa County Sports Commission (MCSC) have teamed up to launch a web site designed for all fans of Arizona's sports teams and events.

Cable giant NTL has purchased UK-based outside broadcast facilities specialist Scanners TV.

The National Football League and Yahoo! have signed a multi-faceted content and distribution agreement that includes live audio play-by-play webcasts of virtually all of this season's regular season NFL games.

Silverstone's future as the venue for the British Grand Prix is hanging in the balance.