Events

The playing surface at the Millennium Stadium may have to be re-laid for the FA Cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool.

The BBC has warned sporting bodies that they threaten the future of their respective sports by increasingly favouring pay-TV companies over free-to-air broadcasters when securing television rights deals.

The French soccer league (LNF) has rejected bids from TF1 and Metropole Television (M6) for the right to broadcast highlights of soccer games on Sunday mornings.

Australian broadcaster Seven Network aims to undermine its rival Nine Network?s coverage of Australian Football League in 2002 by making use of its extensive archive of AFL matches.

Sport site network Rivals.net has teamed up with Entertainment Films to sponsor the movie Mike Bassett ? England Manager.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are still struggling to secure a naming rights deal for its new stadium.

The toe-dipping around the Olympic pool is set to stop and the serious contenders are preparing to dive into the race for world sport's most powerful job - the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.

FIFA has reserved judgment after investigating whether a bitter feud between the Greek football association (EPO) and the government was affecting the Greek game.

England Premiership soccer club Leeds United has launched LUTV, a behind the scenes insight into the club through their official website.

English premiership club Tottenham Hotspur Plc said sport and media group ENIC had completed its purchase of former chairman Alan Sugar's 26.9 percent holding, worth around 22 million pounds.

A cabinet minister and kimono-clad young women turned out to greet Olympics inspectors when they arrived on Sunday in Japan's western metropolis Osaka to evaluate its bid to stage the 2008 Summer Games.

The president of AFL club Carlton, John Elliott, has summoned all his counterparts to a meeting in Melbourne next Tuesday with a view to challenging the existing AFL Commission.

The NBA?s Charlotte Hornets have moved a step closer to retaining the franchise in the city after Charlotte city staff and the Hornets reached a tentative agreement on a financing model for a new uptown arena.

Indian golf officials fear they could face an uphill task raising funds after the main sponsor of the Indian professional tour pulled out last week.

Europe's biggest media group Bertelsmann AG has opened the way for a possible stock market listing through a share swap deal to take control of Europe's largest television group RTL, the Luxembourg-based owners of Munich-based sports marketing group, UFA Sports.

Lennox Lewis was allegedly offered a last-ditch incentive by BSkyB to prevent him from switching the broadcast coverage of his fights to the BBC.