Stadia
Stadia

Washington State will install FieldTurf, the grass and Astroturf substitute, for both Martin Stadium and Rogers Practice Ground. Work on both projects begin in April 2000 and the surface should be ready to play by the end of June.
Events

Internet bookmakers William Hill can expect a $10m pay-out if Tiger Woods wins this year's golfing Grand Slam and have slashed the odds about that happening from an opening quote of 250/1 to 33/1.
Events

The UK?s Channel 4 is set to join forces with cable giant NTL in a bid to win the rights to broadcast live England soccer internationals.
Stadia

UEFA?s official EURO 2000 website will be launched tomorrow at a special ceremony in the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels.
Stadia

SportsLine.com led all Internet sports sites with 2.5 million unique visitors from home for the week ending March 19, 2000 - the first week of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Unique visitors are defined as online users during the week that visited a site at least once.
Business

Manchester United?s future Internet strategy could see the website and multimedia division ran as a separate company, according to finance director David Gill. Speaking after the announcement of the plc?s interim results, Gill said that the club would inform investors of its Internet strategy in ?due course?, possibly when the full results are announced in October.
Stadia

UK Sport has named the executives to spearhead its new UK Sports Institute.
Business

LookSmart, the Internet search infrastructure company, has signed the first sponsorship contract for the official site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Business

Liberty Media Corporation has successfully completed its cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Ascent Entertainment Group, Inc.
Media

A US company is mounting a challenge to a consortium made up of Channel 4, the BBC and cable firm NTL, for the Internet rights to British horseracing.
Stadia

FIFA president Sepp Blatter spent the weekend in Morocco for a visit to discuss the country's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.
Events

German media firm, Kinowelt, is seeking to broadcast football league games live in cinemas from August.
Business

Charlton Athletic Football Club has signed a major sponsorship deal with Redbus Investments, the investment business set up by Demon Internet founder Cliff Stanford.
Media

The Inland Revenue is planning to scrap betting duty and replace it with a new tax on bookmakers in response to offshore internet gambling, according to a Financial Times report.
Media

South Korean sports site start?ups are proliferating and using US-based sports marketing models, according to a report from The Korean Times.
Business

ISL Worldwide has signed Orad Hi-Tec Systems to provide Orad's IMadGINE virtual advertising for the Tennis Masters Series TV coverage. This is the first time that Orad will be providing virtual advertising to an ISL premium event.
Business

John Dooner, Jr., formerly head of McCann-Erickson, has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of The Interpublic Group of Companies, owners of Octagon, the leading global sports marketing company.
Events

Soccer club Manchester United is understood to be considering hiving off its multi-media division, focused around its manutd.com website, according to a report in the UK?s Guardian newspaper.