Media

The 32 Commissioners of basketball?s FIBA SuproLeague Office (FSO) have met in Munich to prepare for the launch of the FIBA SuproLeague on October 18.

Sydney?s two major stadia, the Stadium Australia Group's Stadium Australia and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust's Sydney Football Stadium, have become keen commercial rivals.

The president of World Sports, Patti Wheeler, has resigned following the decision of Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks to cease production operations at the World Sports Enterprises unit December 1- the date that World Sports' contract with Nascar expires.

The Women's British Open has replaced Canada?s now-defunct du Maurier Classic as the fourth ?major? championship on the LPGA Tour.

NASCAR?s new television partners Fox Sports, FX, NBC Sports and TBS Superstation have announced their coverage plans for the 2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Senior officials behind the Sydney Olympics could be offered consultancy contracts for the Athens Games in 2004.

NBC, responding to viewer complaints, has dropped a commercial for Nike sports shoes and clothing featuring a female Olympic runner being pursued by a chain saw-wielding man.

International women's squash has received a $4.5m boost after London-based intellectual property rights acquisition company Fablon Investments Limited acquired the rights to the Women's World Open and Women's World Team Championships in a unique nine-year agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF).

The U.S. men's basketball "Dream Team" were trapped in their hotel on Monday by a demonstration against a World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne.

The protracted broadcast rights negotiations over coverage of World Cup 2002 for the Japanese market have finally been concluded.

Sportal, the global provider of interactive sports content, has signed an extensive multi language sports content distribution deal with Yahoo! Europe.

NBC will offer more Olympic programming than ever before with the help of its cable-TV outlets CNBC and MSNBC.

Nickelodeon GAS (Games and Sports for Kids) is presenting a new NFL show aimed at children.

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has signed a five-year deal with the Premier League?s West Ham United FC to design, develop and maintain the club's internet site.

InMotion Technologies is to produce VideoFinish/SimulCam broadcast images for ZDF, the main German broadcaster for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

The head of South Korea's 2002 World Cup organising committee has resigned for personal reasons, a committee spokesman has confirmed.

Pressure on organisers of the Sydney Olympics to lift its ban on foreign television media from Homebush during the Games is mounting after the US joined the European Union in calls to refer the issue to the World Trade Organisation.

Australian media have demanded urgent action to solve air traffic control and baggage handling problems at Sydney Airport before hundreds of thousands of people flood through there for the Sydney Olympics.