Events

Optus Communications is liquidating its pay-TV sports channels, and is renegotiating its sports broadcast rights, putting football coverage in jeopardy.

Driven by pressure to produce a more TV friendly product, tennis' governing body are to experiment with a 'no-ad' scoring system for certain tournaments.

Newcastle United has said it has invited Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall, who resigned in March over disparaging remarks they made about team supporters and local women, to rejoin the football club board.

The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) may sell naming rights to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for $A6m a year.

World athletics boss Primo Nebiolo backed on Tuesday Zurich's decision not to accept the alleged financial demands of leading sprinters Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon for the richest meeting in the sport.

The $463 million Stadium Australia taking shape in western Sydney will not only be the biggest ever built for an Olympic Games, but from a business point of view, by far the best.

The field of candidates to buy the NFL expansion team the Cleveland Browns has narrowed, with three of seven bidders dropping out.

German Soccer Federation (DFB) president Egidius Braun has said he had been hurt by critics and was considering retirement.

After successfully hosting the Commonwealth Games over the last one and a half weeks, Malaysia is now planning to make a bid for the Asian games in 2006 and the Olympic Games in 2008.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Supply Administration announced September 21 that a consortium led by Samsung Engineering Co. has been selected to design and build the main stadium for the 2002 World Cup.

In a move to keep cable TV on the bench during this spring's NCAA men's college basketball tournament, broadcast network CBS and satellite TV company DirecTV has unveiled plans for joint coverage of the event.

Newly-merged marketer Advantage International is aiming at the top slot in sports and event management and wants to double its share of the lucrative global business in three years, its new international chief says.

The Organising Committee for the Olympic Football Tournaments, Sydney 2000, has reaffirmed their ruling on age limits, and announced that the Men's Olympic final will be played in Sydney's new Olympic Stadium.

The Italian government does not want a single operator to have more than 30 percent of pay-TV soccer rights, Communications Ministry undersecretary Vincenzo Vita has said.

Asian soccer chiefs will decide on Tuesday whether to heed a call to boycott the 2002 World Cup in emergency talks on the region's representation in the finals.

England's chances of hosting the 2006 World Cup have not been damaged by the resignation of F.A. chief executive Graham Kelly, FIFA said on Wednesday.