Stadia

Major League Baseball is in negotiations to start its 2001 season in Puerto Rico.

InMotion Technologies is to create a website for the TISSOT-UCI Mountain Bike 2000 World Cup Finals in Leysin and Lausanne.

Olympic organisers were more confident on Wednesday of being able to prepare a soccer pitch playing surface at Canberra in time for next month's Games, averting the need to move matches away from the federal capital.

Several MLS soccer teams are planning new stadium builds following the success of The Columbus Crew stadium ? with Los Angeles Galaxy involved in the most ambitious project.

A bid by Rogers Communications Inc to buy Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays could happen as early as this week, according to the national daily Globe and Mail .

FoxSports.com will stream live video and audio of the University of Nebraska's college football game against San Jose State University - the first Division I college football game broadcast online by a major sports site.

Olympic organisers could be forced to switch soccer games away from Canberra because of worries that its new playing surface would not be ready.

A group headed by Terry Bowden, the former head football coach at Auburn University and current ABC television analyst, has formed a new internet publishing company -Digital Sports Publishing.

Champions League qualifiers Leeds United are to set up a new ?Leeds United Fantasy Manager? game free of charge to online users of the lufc.co.uk site.

Huge time-zone differences and an explosion in computer use will make Sydney's Olympics the biggest event yet on the Internet with officials predicting a staggering 6.5 billion hits for the official Games site alone.

The performance of every athlete who competes in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games will be logged on the internet at www.olympics.com.

The English Football Association is demanding a web site directory remove the names, addresses and phone numbers of its referees because of mounting concern over their safety.

Sohu.com, the Chinese internet portal, is to provide Olympic Games information to over 50 million mobile phone users in China, due to an alliance with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC).

The King Commission's interim report on cricket corruption will be released on the Internet on Friday, according to a South African government spokesman.

The New England Patriots have sold the naming rights to their new stadium to internet conglomorate CMGI in exchange for at least $114 million over 15 years. The stadium will be called CMGI Field.

North and South Korea may march together under the Olympic flag at the Sydney Olympics, and that could lead to powerful joint teams in international sporting arenas.