News

Stadia

Basketball legend Magic Johnson is to return to Sweden to play more games for MagicM7, a basketball team from the Swedish town of Boras which he bought earlier this year ? say Swedish newspapers.
Business

Sydney's Olympic Games organisers have handed back half a million tickets to the general public, most of which had been secretly siphoned off for premium packages for the wealthy.
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Sports Authority, the largest full-line sporting goods retailer in the United States, has opened an online store, TheSportsAuthority.com.
Events

NASCAR has completed negotiations on a contract that will showcase two Winston Cup Series races and two Busch Grand National Series events at Dover Downs International Speedway on The Nashville Network for the 2000 race season.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has had talks with the European Union sports commissioner in a bid to clampdown on the number of foreign footballers playing for domestic clubs.

An investigation into boxing prompted by the disputed Holyfield/Lewis world heavyweight title fight draw last March found a "stench" of corruption that demands fundamental change to the sport, the head of the probe has said.

A German firm has paid Ferrari #5 million to squeeze its logo onto a 10cm-wide gap on Michael Schumacher's red baseball cap.
Business

A total of $647,600 in prize money will be awarded at the inaugural Winter Goodwill Games in Lake Placid, New York, from February 17-20, organisers have announced.

Golf?s Benson and Hedges International, a European Tour event since 1971, will be played from next year at The Belfry, venue for the 2001 Ryder Cup.
Stadia

Two former Real Madrid directors plan to buy a lower division Spanish club and move it to a suburb of Madrid, according to Spanish newspaper reports.
Media

ESPN Internet Ventures (EIV), the leading online sports company, registered more than 1.3bn page views in October, the first time an Internet sports entity has accumulated more than one billion page views in a single month.

Nike has appointed Curtis S Roberts to the position of vice president of strategic planning. He begins his duties December 15.
Business

Ascent Entertainment Group Inc. has said it has extended to November 15 its agreement to sell its sports-related businesses, including the Denver basketball and hockey teams, to Denver billionaire Donald Sturm's Sturm Group.
Events

Sports.com Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of SportsLine USA, Inc, has formed a strategic alliance with France Telecom Multimedia, a subsidiary of France Telecom, to produce and host co-branded sports channels for France Telecom's Internet portal, Voila, and its Internet service provider, Wanadoo, in France.
Events

South Africa's 2006 World Cup bid committee will concentrate on the "nuts and bolts" of staging the event in its campaign rather than an emotional appeal for Africa.
Business

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, will present Primo Nebiolo's widow with a major award at a memorial service for the late IAAF president in Rome this week.
Events

The four big television networks are in a tight bidding race to win broadcast rights for stock-car racing, and appear willing to pay as much as $400 million annually, almost four times what Nascar races have brought in each year.

NFL Europe have named Bill Peterson as its new president.
Events

NBC Quokka Ventures, has announced that Randy Falco, the president of NBC Television Network and chief operating officer of NBC's Olympic broadcast group, has joined its board of directors.

Tod Leiweke, who has held management posts with several sports teams and organisations, has been named the first president of the NHL expansion Minnesota Wild.