Stadia

Two businessmen who say the Walt Disney Co. stole their idea for a sports-theme attraction have asked a jury to award them $1.5 billion in damages.

Wembley Stadium and the English Football Association has gained an important victory in their war against the corporate hospitality black market, after the High Court granted a temporary injunction against Adams Sport & Leisure.

The manager of Scotland national soccer team has planted a time capsule to mark the start of work on a new $10m stadium.

Major League Soccer is looking to raise its profile with fans by holding a referendum on the design of an MLS official ball via the internet.

The athletes' village for the Sydney Olympics, with a dining area to serve 5,000 people at one sitting, has been acclaimed by Australian Games officials as the best ever.

Cardiff?s Millennium Stadium is set to be confirmed as the host for a number of key soccer games while Wembley Stadium is demolished and rebuilt.

ChoiceSeat, the provider of in-stadia interactive entertainment networks, has named three additions to their executive roster.

Ticketmaster, has signed a multi-year, exclusive ticketing agreements with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen?s owned or operated sports teams and venues.

The head of South Korea's 2002 World Cup organising committee has resigned for personal reasons, a committee spokesman has confirmed.

Three-times Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker is to act as front man for a new internet sports platform venture being launched by Pixelpark AG, Germany's biggest web designer.

World soccer's governing body FIFA has kicked a cybersquatter off the website www.fifa-world-cup.com in its second such victory before an international panel, U.N. arbitrators have said.

Ice hockey fans at Bratislava's ice hockey stadium saw two exhibition matches last weekend involving stars from the NHL and Europe.

Eurobet is launching a new sports wagering site ? and is kicking it off to coincide with the traditional curtain raiser for the English domestic football season.

AthletesDirect, a division of Broadband Sports, has launched the official web site for reigning Olympic Gold medallist and Women's World Professional champion figure-skater, Tara Lipinski.

The Vancouver-based equestrian web site, clipclop.com, has continued on an upward trend for site visitors for the fourth straight month.

The Australian Olyroos soccer team may well be the unexpected hit of the Sydney Games but 83,000 tickets to Olympic soccer matches at Canberra's Bruce Stadium remain unsold.