Stadia

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has signed an agreement giving Sky Television broadcasting rights over Ireland's home matches until 2002.

The Prince of Wales, Prime Minister Tony Blair and film star Hugh Grant will lead attempts to impress international soccer chiefs who will inspect England's World Cup 2006 facilities this week.

Independent sponsorship consultancy BDS Sponsorship has been appointed by Wembley National Stadium Ltd to handle the legendary London venue?s `End of an Era? initiatives.

Sports.com Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of SportsLine USA, Inc, has formed a strategic alliance with France Telecom Multimedia, a subsidiary of France Telecom, to produce and host co-branded sports channels for France Telecom's Internet portal, Voila, and its Internet service provider, Wanadoo, in France.

Total Sports, the online sports new media company that focuses on providing real-time, event-centred sports coverage, has completed the offering of approximately 2,100,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock to certain institutional investors.

London?s only Rugby League team, the London Broncos are likely to play at Charlton Athletic soccer club?s Valley stadium form next season.

ISL United States has launched collegefootballplayoff.com, a web site designed to provide Division I-A college football with a play-off route to determine college football's national champion on the field.

Australia's telecommunications giant Telstra Corp Ltd said it had talked to the Australian Football League (AFL), but it was not in the process of bidding for the pay TV or Internet rights of the game.

The British government could decide within days whether London's world-famous Wembley stadium should be redeveloped to host athletics as well as international soccer, culture minister Chris Smith has said.

English Premier League soccer club Leicester City has pulled out of plans to build a new 40,000-seat stadium in the city.

Representatives from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will visit Athens on January 26 and 27 to discuss preparations for the 2004 Summer Games, an Athens 2004 official has said.

International Speedway Corporation (ISC) has reached an agreement with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority through the ISC's wholly-owned subsidiary New York International Speedway Corporation to conduct a feasibility study to develop a motorsports facility at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, N.J.

Japan has thrown its hat into the ring to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, officially entering Osaka as its candidate and vowing a "clean" campaign to win the right to hold the games.

Advertisers of Super Bowl television coverage this year will pay, on average, more than $2 million for 30 seconds of time before an audience that Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network predicts will exceed 120 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Overseas fans are snapping up new seating packages for the Sydney Olympics according to Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph.

With no sign of last-minute candidates tossing their hats into the ring, the fight for the FIFA presidency is set to be a tussle between two soccer heavyweights - a smooth-talking Swiss and an affable, straightforward Swede.