Europe

English Premier League club Fulham has struck a deal to ground-share next season with Football League club QPR.

English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur has chosen Carnegie Information Systems' customer relationship management (CRM) software for the club's White Hart Lane headquarters.

A soccer club in England has been able to buy a new player courtesy of so many of its fans betting through its official website.

Marton Simitsek, executive director of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, has taken over the running of its operations division.

The National Football League (NFL) is to aid its recession-hit broadcast partners by offering more flexibility in its scheduling next season, including over the flagship programme 'Monday Night Football'.

UK-based motorsports marketing group Podia Group Plc has agreed to acquire Tony Jardine Communications for up to £1.5million ($2.1m/EUR2.4m) in shares.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reached a distribution agreement for the internet rights to the Olympics for the first time in its history.

The TV channels of eight of the top European soccer clubs have banded together to form an official lobby group with the aim of creating a united voice over issues such as rights and archive access.

Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona has signed a six-year partnership agreement with Havas Advertising Sports to develop a marketing programme targeted at top Spanish and international companies.

In a series of articles in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, leading lawyers at Addleshaw Booth & Co, the official lawyers to the Games, will be asking what the coming year has in store for sport in general and compare the current state of the Commonwealth Games with comparable examples in the wider sporting field.

The UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered the most wide-ranging review of British sport since the White Paper of 1975.

An official joint bid from Scotland and Ireland to host the Euro 2008 soccer tournament looks likely after officials said they had made "considerable progress" in their plans.

An unlikely partnership, but the National Football League (NFL) and Spain's leading soccer club Barcelona have agreed a three-year cross-promotion deal.

An unlikely partnership, but the National Football League (NFL) and Spain's leading soccer club Barcelona have agreed a three year cross-promotion deal.

Greece's Culture Ministry has announced a $188m revamp for Athens' main sport complex for the 2004 Olympic Games.

France's M6 TV group has said it has bought 10 percent of M6 Foot, the firm that controls soccer club Girondins Bordeaux, taking its stake in the first division team to 99 percent.