North America

The New York Islanders NHL franchise is planning to sell up to $200 million in bonds early next year.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has agreed to be quizzed by the US Justice Department as part of its probe into the Salt Lake City scandal.

NetZero Inc, the US's largest free Internet service provider, will become the first internet company to take up the title sponsorship of NBA basketball on NBC broadcasts.

Mike Tyson faces a ban from entering Britain ? which could throw his planned bout with Julius Francis next week into chaos.

SportsYa! (www.sportsya.com), the first interactive Spanish and Portuguese language sports site, has signed NFL analyst Joe Theismann to an exclusive Spanish and Portuguese language editorial contract as a guest columnist.

Members of the US women's soccer team have agreed a five-year contract with the US Soccer Federation, thereby ending their month long dispute with the governing body.

International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch says he will welcome NHL players at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Major League Baseball owners have voted unanimously at quarterly meetings to approve the sale of the Texas Rangers to media magnate Tom Hicks.

NSGA and American Sportfishing Association (ASA) will hold their annual trade shows together at McCormick Place in Chicago in 1999.

Australian sports officials are hoping to bring the Goodwill Games Down Under.

World rugby's governing body has failed to promote the sport outside its traditional strongholds and is in dire need of a serious shape-up, former Australian hero David Campese has said.

International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) president Primo Nebiolo has insisted it was safe to stage the Grand Prix final in Moscow.

ABC's Monday Night Football continued to dominate ratings this week but Baseball and Clinton's Presidential peccadilloes made for unspectacular figures, with the lowest rated Dallas game ever.

The San Francisco 49ers have quashed rumors that Dwight Clark, the club's executive vice president, is about join friend and former 49ers president Carmen Policy to help assemble the new Cleveland Browns.

New Orleans was awarded its ninth Super Bowl on Wednesday, beating out San Diegofor the rights to the 2002 NFL title game.

After 11 days of silence, the opposing sides in the NBA lockout agreed to resume formal bargaining talks later this week, in a bid to save their Christmas NBC TV schedule.