Sponsorship & Marketing

Media technology firm Sportvision has won the 2000 Horizon Award for "Sports Business Technology of the Year".

England's top rugby union players, who have gone on strike over pay, are among the best paid in the world despite financial problems in the domestic game.

The Ladies European Tour Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Evian Ladies European Tour, has won three awards for its marketing of The Solheim Cup 2000 at Loch Lomond last month.

Sportvision, Inc., the US-based sports media technology, has appointed Steven F. Roberts to executive vice president, Product Management, and promoted Russell Quy to executive producer and vice president, Media Production.

Beckett.com, the US-based online destination for sports collectibles enthusiasts and the publisher of monthly collectibles magazines, has formed a two-year co-branding agreement with thePit.com, the world's first online sports stock market.

The Arena Football League (AFL) board of directors has approved the relocation of the Albany Firebirds from Albany, N.Y., to Indianapolis.

Heineken has launched an extensive new advertising campaign in the UK as part of its on-going support of the Heineken Cup, Europe?s leading club rugby union competition

German sports marketing agency Global Sportnet has signed a two-year television rights contract with the Greek Football Association.

ESPN has promoted Russell Wolff, senior vice president of programming and event management for ESPN STAR Sport (ESS) in Asia, to senior vice president, ESPN International.

The NFL?s newest franchise- the Houston Texans -have signed a 10-year radio broadcast deal with Infinity Broadcasting.

European Rugby Cup Ltd (ERC) has signed a five-year partnership deal with the Paris-based sports marketing agency Havas Advertising Sports.

Almost every person on the planet with access to a television will watch the Sydney Olympics at some time in the next month.

Yahoo! has signed three agreements to provide live video and audio broadcasts of collegiate sporting events covering 22 colleges and universities on Yahoo! Sports.

Online sports retailer Kitbag has received top marks in a customer satisfaction survey of Open customers using the interactive digital television service, available via UK digital TV.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Queensland-based sports event marketing firm Harte International have launched a new joint credit card venture aimed at golfers.

Sport Supply Group, the US-based suppliers of sporting goods to sports organisations has launched the second phase of its development of BSNSports.com and US-Games.com