Stadia

The National Football League has said it is comfortable with the number of premium seats sold to date for the proposed new Boston stadium in Foxborough, but people involved in the project said the facility would have fewer corporate suites than originally publicized.

Broadcom Corporation, an enabler of broadband communications to homes and businesses, and Gotcha International, the surfwear and media company, have launched Broadband Interactive Group Inc. (BIG) to create interactive content aimed at the 10-24 year-old age group.

Russian champions Spartak Moscow will appeal against an order banning fans from tomorrow's home match after their followers clashed with police at their lastgame.

At a time when public funding of NFL and ball-park stadium facilities is the subject of a US senator's bill demanding greater financial input from league's and teams, the Canadian government has taken a step in the opposite direction.

Hewlett-Packard, an official sponsor of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup (WWC), have said that the event exceeded its sponsorship expectations.

Full plans for the new-look Wembley Stadium are to unveiled this week.

Gaylord Entertainment Company has acquired the naming rights to the Nashville Arena from the National Hockey League's Nashville Predators.

Japan is ready to lend South Korea about $200 million to help its World Cup co-host build a soccer stadium for the 2002 tournament, the Export-Import Bank of Japan said. "We are ready to offer the loans at any time, but we are still waiting for a formal request from South Korea," an official at the bank told Reuters.

The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.

The organisers of an anti-racism soccer tournament in Rome hailed it as a success on Tuesday but the event was marred by the glaring absence of hardcore Lazio fans, who boycotted the event.

SportSkill.com, a leading fantasy sports ASP, has agreed to provide fantasy sports games to consumers of internet game sites GameHouse, Roto Sports Inc. and TheHuddle.com.

Colombia?s soccer team Deportivo Cali will start constructing its new stadium tomorrow.

One of the most famous buildings in golf, the starter's box at the St Andrews Old Course, has been put up for auction this week so players can have a bigger putting green.

24dogs, the digital greyhound racing service owned by Wembley plc, has launched the Greyhound Racing SuperLeague after securing internet rights for 22 of the top 25 UK greyhound racetracks.

UK broadband TV company Video Networks has become the exclusive video-on-demand partner for England?s Premier League soccer league.
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Brazilian Senators investigating corruption in soccer recommended that one of the country's most controversial club presidents be stripped of his parliamentary status.