Germany
Business

A leading legal expert in London says the decision to rule in favour of the Premier League's en bloc sale of exclusive broadcast rights is 'out of line' with those made in Europe on the same collective selling issue.
Business

The England soccer team?s triumphant win over rivals Germany on Saturday has inspired a string of unnamed companies to approach UK soccer?s governing body the Football Association (FA) with sponsorship deals.
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Business

The World Corporate Games ? due to be staged in Germany next month ? have been cancelled.
Stadia

The German Grand Prix will be held at the Hockenheimring for another seven years after an agreement to extend the contract was reached between Formula One Holding and the Hockenheimring GmbH.
Business

Moscow may be on the Formula One Grand Prix map as soon as 2003, if the International Automobile Federation (FIA) gets its way.

A study by the Sports Consulting Group of Andersen, SCORE, has found that England is ?Europe?s football related tax paradise? and that France has the most problems in attracting well-known international players.
Business

Players' representatives have reacted angrily to new rules governing soccer transfers agreed in their absence and hinted at court action.
Business

German media group EM.TV has gone a long way to guaranteeing its future by signing a rescue agreement with its privately owned rival Kirch.

About 100 Olympic family members who overstayed their visas and remained illegally in Australia following the Sydney Games have ignored Immigration Department warnings to get out, a spokesman has said.
Events

Paris will stage the best Olympics ever if it wins the right to hold them in 2008, the bid organisers said in an official statement.
Sponsorship & Marketing

German marketing company UFA Sports has signed a 10-year deal with top Brazilian soccer club Vasco da Gama.
Events

European online auction house QXL.com has scheduled its sale of Wembley Stadium memorabilia for October 30.
Stadia

Police are to mount a huge security operation for the final game to be played at London?s Wembley Stadium, amid fears souvenir hunting fans could rip it to pieces.
Media

Global Sports Ventures, the UK-based digital talent packaging operation, is set to go live with its UK web site at the end of August 2000.
Media

Hockenheim should remain the venue of the German Grand Prix providing it undergoes a major facelift, Baden-Wuerttemberg State Premier Erwin Teufel has said.

Swiss bank UBS has launched a new sports and entertainment group within its private banking division.
Business

The chairman of South Africa's World Cup bid committee has supported New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark's call for a rerun of a controversial vote which awarded the 2006 tournament to Germany.

South Africa and Germany are neck-a-neck as the vital FIFA poll enters the third round of voting.