Australia

Australia?s National Rugby League (NRL) plans to hold a live telecast of judiciary hearings, if clubs support the idea.

Online sports technology provider, iSport UK and sports technology consultants, Play-Sport New Media are to merge their UK operations, sportbusiness.com has learned.

FILA Australia is under investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over the distribution of its official AFL products.

Goodwill Games organisers will mark the 30-day countdown to the event on Sunday with massive celebrations in Brisbane, Australia.

Former Australian rugby union coach Rod Macqueen will act as an advisor and consultant to the Australian Rugby Union, helping to decide on the establishment of a fourth Super 12 team.

Cash-strapped Stadium Australia Group is in the process of signing a lucrative deal with the Australian Football League (AFL) that could help move the company back into profitability.

Sportsworld media, the sports marketing and television production company, has increased its foothold in Melbourne, Australia after reaching an agreement with the Australian Football League and Melbourne?s Eastern Football League to produce a television programme called The Champions.

Global event hospitality company, Iluka UK, have re-signed sponsor Samsung for management of their Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic winter Games hospitality programme.

Tickets to this year?s Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ireland's three remaining Six Nations rugby union internationals have been postponed until next season because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak.

Rugby union chiefs are threatening to ban England's top players from international competition unless they rip up an agreement signed with the country's leading clubs this week, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.

The 2001 Goodwill Games has forged a sponsorship alliance with energy supplier ENERGEX.

The best rugby players from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa want to form a combined Southern Hemisphere team to play the British Lions during their tour of Australia this year.

Communications firm Telstra has secured a naming rights deal for the 2001 International Soccer Expo, to be held in Australia in June.

Troubled sports and entertainment internet group Quokka Sports has been forced to lay off 59 percent of its 369 employees.

Olympic chiefs are worried about the high numbers of top-class competitors taking steroid-based drugs for asthma at The Games which was at least six times greater than the normal average at last year's Sydney Games.