Events

Quokka Sports, Inc., the online sports entertainment programmer, have launched an initial public offering of 5m shares of common stock at a price of $12.00 per share.

A majority of sports fans remain reluctant to pay high ticket prices for women's sporting events, despite the heavy promotion and marketing surrounding the recent Women's World Cup Games.

Morocco have staked their claim to be Africa's first choice for the 2006 World Cup.

Ford has decided to promote the Jaguar brand as it prepares for its return to Formula One motor racing.

Dutch soccer team Feyenoord Rotterdam is looking at ways of offering virtual advertising to its sponsors. The move comes amid a wave of Asian interest in the sport since the signing of Japanese star Shinji Ono from Urawa.

KirchMedia has reached agreement with a group of Korean broadcasters for the domestic broadcasting rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups in a deal believed to be in the region of $55-60million (?60.63-66.14m).

UK broadcaster the BBC has won the domestic rights to the British Open Golf Championship ? ending speculation it could lose out to a rival.

UK satellite channel SKY Sports has been awarded live rights to the US Open, the world's richest grand slam tennis event, for the next four years.

Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has finalised a deal with its Malaysian pay-TV platform Astro for exclusive coverage of English Premier League soccer for the next three seasons.
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Vietnam has signed a contract with a Chinese consortium to build a $52.9 million (?59m) main stadium for the 2003 Southeast Asian Games, an official said.

A multi million-dollar sponsorship arrangement between Australian brewer Tooheys and an Australian horse racing club is under increasing pressure with Tooheys claiming it has not gained the naming rights it was promised.

Hungary has decided to make a solo bid for the 2008 European Championships after unsuccessful talks with potential co-hosts Croatia, youth and sports Minister Tamas Deutsch said.

Television distributor Venevision International has been chosen by satellite broadcaster DirecTV to sub-license the rights to the 2002 soccer World Cup in a number of Latin American nations.

UK terrestrial and pay-TV broadcaster ITV has secured the rights to the next two Rugby World Cups in a six-year deal with the International Rugby Board (IRB).

The Brazilian championship, which has been in doubt due to a judicial battle, has been given the green light, just a week before its scheduled start.

British Eurosport?s coverage of cycling?s Tour de France race helped the satellite channel attract an average audience of 69,000 on Sunday.

The NASCAR Winston Cup series has continued to record impressive television ratings with the latest race at the new Chicagoland Speedway attracting an audience of 21 million.

The Australian Open tennis championship has confirmed sports marketing giants IMG as its exclusive major sponsorship sales agent.