Stadia

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president says he will look into allegations made by a former Real Madrid official that the club paid incentives to other teams to win matches against their rivals.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has bought up all the outdoor advertising space in Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games which will be held there in 2008 in an attempt to limit the commercialisation of the event.

Sportech PLC, the London stock exchange-listed pools promotion, internet gaming, telephone betting, lotteries and lottery management company, is to launch a new sports magazine in September aimed at betting and gaming customers.

The Japanese unit of global communications company Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) is to form a joint venture with Japan's largest entertainment television content firm Yoshimoto Kogyo Co Ltd. to develop sports and entertainment content.

South Africa's premier league kicks off its new season on Wednesday against a backdrop of legal wrangles, feuding club bosses and growing public apathy.

The Olympic Games have become so big they risk pressuring host cities into building big facilities that become "white elephants" once the athletes have packed up their medals and gone home, the new head of International Olympics has said.

Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.

South Africa's Premier League kicks off its new season on Wednesday against a backdrop of legal wrangles, feuding club bosses and growing public apathy.

When Austria was chosen as the venue for this year's beach volleyball world championships there was just one hitch - the landlocked Alpine nation has no beaches.

Envision, the LA-based sports marketing firm run as a joint venture between former ProServ managing director Jeff Knapple and Philip Anschutz, owner of the Los Angeles Kings, has been chosen to sell the naming rights to the Louisiana Superdome.

Churchill Downs racetrack – home to the Kentucky Derby – is to undergo a $127m (B

Campaigners wanting to keep the English national stadium at Wembley have launched a hard-hitting advertising campaign in a bid to see off a rival bid from the city of Birmingham.

Rugby Football League’s (RFL) chairman Sir Rodney Walker has told sportbusiness.com that a new knock-out competition could be introduced to exist alongside the Super League and Challenge Cup.

South African sports brand marketing company SAIL has notified the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange of discussions with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to form a commercial partnership in line with SAIL’s strategy of expanding into international sports brands.

UK engineering company Street CraneXpress (SCX) has installed the world’s first “mobile turf crossing” at Ascot racecourse as part of the horseracing venues £100million ($142m/B

The official World Internet Chess Championships have been launched by FIDE Commerce International (FCI) – the exclusive holders of commercial rights to all FIDE world chess events.

Premier1 Racing has secured its second soccer club – English Premier League frontrunners Leeds United.

Brazilian Senators investigating corruption in soccer recommended that one of the country's most controversial club presidents be stripped of his parliamentary status.