Stadia

Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic have hailed a trial pay-per-view broadband broadcast a success – despite just 30 percent of broadband subscribers watching the game.

The future of the British Grand Prix is expected to be decided this week when the Competition Commission hands a report to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on the future of the Silverstone circuit.

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.