Media

Tickets.com and the Milwaukee Brewers are expanding their relationship to include retail distribution through Tickets.com's retail outlets and call centres.

ABC and ESPN have bought the exclusive broadcasting rights in the US market for premier IAAF events in a three- year agreement with the IAAF and ISL Worldwide.

Comcast Business Communications has been contracted to outfit Detroit's Comerica Park stadium's suites with the company's new managed internet service.

UK football club Tottenham Hotspur said revenues and profits in the six months to January 2001 had fallen because the club had not been competing in Europe.

ABC Sports has gone inhouse for Don Ohlmeyer's replacement as producer of ``Monday Night Football,'' tapping Fred Gaudelli, producer of ``Sunday Night Football'' on ABC's sister network ESPN.

Premier Rugby said that this season's winners of the Zurich Premiership will be the English Champion Club and will qualify as number one seed for the new end of season Zurich Championship play-offs.

Sports.com is among the first internet companies to be awarded press accreditations by the IOC to report from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

NBC will honour its two-year contractual commitment to XFL - despite another viewing figure slide in Week Four of the season.

The deal signed between Spanish soccer club Real Madrid and pay-TV group Sogecable has the potential to reduce the club?s huge financial debts, according to analysts.

Soccer officials, lawyers and European Commission experts held a series of meetings on Friday in a bid to thrash out a compromise deal on a new transfer system.

Teamtalk.com, the independent online sports content provider, has launched a new horseracing site.

UK firm Vision Sports PR has taken on two new accounts ? that of Coutts Sports and Entertainment client group and Loughborough University?s Loughborough Sport brand.

Motor racing supremo Bernie Ecclestone has defaulted on the $360million payment to the Federation Internationale de l?automobile (FIA) for purchase of long-term broadcasting and other commercial rights to Formula One, according to a report in the Financial Times

German media giant Kirch, holders of the European broadcast rights to the FIFA World Cup 2002 and 2006, will auction the rights in separate packages to both pay-TV and free-TV broadcasters in the UK.

FIFA will take no immediate action against former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, the player at the centre of a 1990s bribery case.

More than 60% of XFL advertising spots in advance of the league?s debut on February 3, 2001.