North America

Major League baseball owners are today expected to give a thumbs up to plans for a baseball World Cup and a baseball television network.

City Council members have given initial approval for the Dallas Cowboys to build a $650 million football stadium in Arlington and to place the project in voters' hands.

A three-way play-off helped the PGA Championship 's final-round TV ratings increase four per cent from last year, reports golfweb.com

The NFL has struck deals with two Mexican television networks to televise its games for the next three seasons.

Internet and television ratings were up during the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati.

Asia will host a World Cup Qualifier at Palm Resort Golf and Country Club in Johor, Malaysia from September 30 to October 3, with a minimum three spots in the tournament in Spain up for grabs.

The NBA Board of Governors has approved the sale of the New Jersey Nets to an ownership group that plans to move the team to New York.

Harvey Schiller, chairman of GlobalOptions Inc, a multidisciplinary international risk management and business solutions company, will deliver a keynote address at the International Sports Security Summit in London on October 27 and 28.

NASCAR has unveiled NASCAR Mexico, a new base of operations in Mexico that will support and build local stock car racing in the country.

The NCAA has brought in a package of recruiting reforms for college players, coming little more than six months after the first revelations of abuses at Colorado.

Major League Baseball commissioner looks set to be given a contract extension – even though he may not want one.

Reports from news services in the US have continued to report interest among potential investors in sports marketing and management giant IMG.

Major League Soccer, the United States pro soccer league, will have a second team in Los Angeles from the beginning of next year.

NASCAR has advanced further from its roots by stripping one Southern track of its only race and reducing another to one event in 2005. Down the road, the stock cars will almost certainly be spending even less time in the Southeast, where the sport flourished.

ATPtennis.com achieved more than 100 million page impressions for 2004 during the third week of July, reaching the milestone 10 weeks earlier than last year.

The IOC has named the team that will have the tough task of evaluating the five cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic Games.