Stadia

English soccer club Ipswich Town has signed a club record breaking three-year #4 million ($5.7m) sponsorship deal with Ipswich-based utility TXU Europe.

Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid is close to finalising a deal for the sale of its city-centre training facilities which will mean the club clears its huge debt of more than $250 million in one fell swoop.

Dot coms are continually asking themselves what drives sport on the internet. Well, Arizona baseball pitcher Randy Johnson may well have the answer.

Quokka Sports , which set out to revolutionise sports media by carrying events across the internet, shut off its last featured coverage on Wednesday, a series of mountain climbing dispatches from Tibet.

The concourse at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles has taken on a new look with the addition of a new retail specialty shop.

US president George W Bush bounced a fastball in front of home plate on Friday night to throw out the ceremonial first pitch to open the Milwaukee Brewers' new baseball stadium.

The ICC has banned star cricket player Brian Lara from using a new bat carrying the logo of an internet betting company.

US-based managed services company Aramark will supply 13 Major League Baseball stadiums with managed food, retail merchandise and other services, when the new season begins April 1.

Greece rejected claims by soccer's world governing body FIFA that the government was meddling in Greek soccer, risking a ban from international competition.

Supporters of Premier League soccer club Charlton Athletic are prepared to pay #25,000 ($36,000) each to help finance the redevelopment of the club?s North Stand. The club wrote to around 300 of its wealthiest supporters for help in raising the #9m ($13m) needed to expand capacity at the Valley from 20,000 to 34,000. Around 100 fans have agreed to pay the #25,000 and will receive a seat in the stand for life.

IOC delegates have heaped praise on Toronto's plans to stage the 2008 Olympics, saying they were impressed with the city's athlete-oriented focus and dismissed detractors who sought to cast a pall on Toronto's squeaky-clean reputation.

The new owners of English Premiership soccer club Tottenham Hotspur are considering moving the club away from their famous White Hart Lane stadium.

The future of Irish soccer?s planned Eircom Park remains uncertain with the Football Association of Ireland now considering scrapping the project altogether.

Russian premier division club CSKA Moscow has been bought by a consortium, including British company Blue Castle Enterprises Ltd.

Badminton, home of the UK?s Mitsubishi Motors horse trails, has confirmed a three-year deal with temporary access company, Eve Trakway to supply temporary roadways and barriers for the three day event.

Bob Schwartz has been named vice president of marketing for Comcast-Spectacor Ventures and its affiliated companies.