Events

Mike Miller, The BBC?s Controller of Television Sport, has resigned. Miller has accepted an offer from Worldsport.com to become the editorial director.

The China Rally has been removed from the 2000 world championship calendar at an International Automobile Federation (FIA) hearing.

Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks has snapped up the exclusive internet broadcasting rights to international cricket matches played in India.

ISL Worldwide has signed Orad Hi-Tec Systems to provide Orad's IMadGINE virtual advertising for the Tennis Masters Series TV coverage. This is the first time that Orad will be providing virtual advertising to an ISL premium event.

Newsweek has signed with ISL Worldwide as an inaugural presenting partner for the Tennis Masters Series, the elite series on the ATP Tour.

A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.

European soccer governing body UEFA has appointed UK-based Red Pepper ? specialist in TV branding ? to rebrand the on and off-screen identity of its premier club competition, the Champions League.

BBC Sport has signed a deal to extend its live coverage rights of golf?s US Masters tournament.

The chief executive officer of South Africa's bid committee for the 2006 Soccer World Cup has told the South African Cabinet that he is extremly confident the country will be awarded the event, the Pan African News Agency reports.

A threatened Asian boycott of the 2002 World Cup looks likely to be averted after the Asian Football Confederation cancelled an emergency meeting and asked member countries to enter the Cup's qualifying competition.

UK broadcaster BSkyB and organisers of golf's Ryder Cup have resolved a dispute over the television company's plans for coverage of the tournament on non-terrestrial channels.

The owner of a professional US hockey team in Raleigh is in talks that will clear the way for a naming-rights deal on the city's new arena, according to insider sources.

A simulated riot and fire drill intended as a test of security procedures for next year's European soccer championship had to be cut short at the weekend after a group of real hooligans turned up. The police, ambulance and fire services had invited about 800 volunteers to simulate a mass exit from a pretend fire in Rotterdam's De Kuip stadium and disturbances outside the ground.

CI Host, a fast-growing Internet solutions and the web hosting industry, has purchased a first-time sports sponsorship through Adauction.com - a media exchange that brings buyers and sellers together in one marketplace.

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.

Shares in SportsLine USA, the online sports site part-owned by CBS, surged following last week's long-term acquisition of NCAA rights by CBS.

Wembley officials have rejected British government criticism that they had failed to produce plans for a national stadium capable of hosting both the Olympics and the soccer World Cup.

International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch has been grilled about corruption in the Olympic movement by a US Congressional panel which challenged him to back up his promise of sweeping changes with action.