Europe

Soccer legends Pele and Johan Cruyff share an apocalyptic vision that commercial exploitation may destroy professional football as we know it.

Sportal has confirmed it has become an official sponsor of the UEFA European Football Championships.

Sports.com has launched three new country-specific Web sites, providing extensive, local coverage of all relevant sports in Germany, Italy and Spain in each country's language.

A major row has broken out over Dutch soccer giants Ajax Amsterdam?s plans to install an artificial pitch at its Amsterdam ArenA.

Octagon CSI?s international television rights contract with the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH) has been extended up until 2004.

Entertainment, sports and media group ENIC plc has offered to buy most of the 40% stake in Premier League soccer club Tottenham Hotspur held by its chairman Alan Sugar, the Independent on Sunday reported.

International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley should resign after the tragic start to the Formula One season, former driver Clay Regazzoni said on Wednesday.

English Premier League winners Arsenal are hoping to play their European Champions' League games in the new season at Wembley stadium where the capacity (78,000) is more than twice that of the club?s own Highbury stadium.

An Olympic Games corruption-buster will be recruited to supervise Olympic delegates and bid cities in the wake of this year's vote-buying scandal, according to Australian newspaper reports.

Top broadcasters from Europe and around the world will travel to Switzerland this week for events in Lucerne marking the 50th birthday of the European Broadcasting Union, whose members include every public service broadcaster in Europe.

The French Tennis Federation has chosen Nice as the venue to host the Davis Cup finals in December.

NASCAR has announced that Dennis Huth, who most recently served as vice president of touring operations and international development, has resigned to `pursue other operations?.

A judge in soccer-mad Argentina has suspended play in the national league because of recent outbreaks of violence.

The Belarus Soccer Federation has unanimously rejected the resignation of its president, Yevgeny Shuntov, and he said he had agreed to stay on.

The Spanish football club Real Madrid, which won the European Champions Cup last month for the first time in 32 years, has bought back part of the Canal Plus empire in Spain for Pta12bn ($80m) from Gesport.

Hundreds of youths went on the rampage at a detention centre in northeast Thailand in the early hours of Wednesday after officials prevented them from watching a World Cup soccer match on television, police said.