Stadia

NTL has agreed to partner Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity to acquire France Telecom?s 49.9% stake in Noos, France?s leading broadband company. The move should create a powerful new player in competition for sports content in France.

Mike Tyson is to fight in Kuala Lumpur next January against an unnamed opponent, a Malaysian boxing promoter has said.

The Scottish Football Association (SFA) will wait for the findings of a feasibility study before deciding whether to make a bid to host the 2008 European Championship.

A UK-based internet domain name company is offering sports clubs the opportunity to take advantage of an Austrian country code address.

England?s failed bid to host the 2006 World Cup is set to be subject to an official government-led inquiry.

Costa Rica has set itself up as the offshore gambling capital of the world with large quantities of US cash entering the country in the lead up to the start of the American football season

Brazilian soccer club Corinthians has launched a new official club web site ? to form part of the PSN.com network.

Sydney's Olympic authorities have threatened to close an Aboriginal Arts centre immediately outside the main stadium if it was used as a focus for protests to highlight the plight of the country's Aborigines.

A New York/New Jersey-based team will be one of eight scheduled teams to kick off the inaugural season-of the XFL, the new professional football league jointly owned by World Wrestling Federation Entertainment and NBC.

The Green Bay Packers are to give away tickets to non-season ticket holders as an incentive to county residents to vote for public funding in a referendum on stadium improvements.

PrimeShot.com, the professional event photography service, is to partner the Baltimore Ravens to capture film of fans enjoying memorable moments at Ravens training camp, special events and all PSINet Stadium Ravens games.

IBM Inc is facing an ambush of its Olympic internet rights from APN Digital, the online offshoot of Australian radio and publishing group APN News & Media Limited.

Australian companies aim to learn from the mistakes made by sponsors dealing with the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG), in anticipation of another major international sporting event hosted by an Australian city next year.

Money-losing Teleglobe Inc. has said it will end its sponsorship agreement with Formula One auto racing team British American Racing (BAR) at the end of the current season.

The Walt Disney Internet Group is to buy the remaining 40 percent of Soccernet (soccernet.com) from Daily Mail and General Trust that it did not purchase in August of 1999.

EPSN Star Sports has appointed Mike Kerr to the newly created position of senior manager, integrated sales.