North America

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge will confirm the host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics later this week with Vancouver, Salzburg and Pyeongchang fighting it out for the prize.

Virginia Tech will accept its invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to university president Charles M. Steger.

ESPN's ratings for the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft rose 24 percent from last year's broadcast on AOL Time Warner's TNT.

Miami will decide on Monday whether to accept its invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference after receiving counterproposals from the Big East schools.

A US Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit against sportswear giant Nike, alleging it lied about conditions in its overseas factories, can go ahead.

The global reach of the National Basketball Association (NBA) received a further boost after a record nine international players were taken in the first round of the league's annual draft.

A state report into the allegations of corruption at the New York Racing Association showed that the body failed to address the problems despite continual warnings.

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, has denied that his visit to Paris yesterday to endorse the Olympic TV coverage of Eurosport also represented a promotion of the French city as a potential host for the 2012 Games.

Formula One's world governing body has made a major u-turn and scrapped its plans for a ban on tobacco advertising in 2006.

The Swiss Olympic Committee will decide at the start of next month whether the city of Zurich is to bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Sweeping changes to the United States Olympic Association (USOC) have moved a step closer after Senator John McCain told external and internal reform panels to settle their remaining differences.

The expansion row over the US college sports leagues has moved on a step with the presidents of the nine Atlantic Coast Conference schools set to ask the University of Miami and Virginia Tech to leave the Big East and join them in time for the 2004-05 sports calendar year.

Robert Mulcahy, athletic director of New Jersey University Rutgers, has floated a compromise plan that would allow Miami to join the expanding Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

Nike has continued its post-Michael Jordan basketball strategy by signing up Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has launched a new global marketing campaign that moves the focus away from the sex appeal of the athletes.

The Chicago Bears have made National Football League history after signing Bank One Corporation as a presenting partner - the first deal of its kind in the league.