Stadia
Business

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.
Business

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

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

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

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.
Business

The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.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

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.
Business

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.
Stadia

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

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.
Events

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.
Media

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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Business

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

Rivals.net, the Chrysalis-based sports network, has appointed Clair Porteous as its first marketing manager.
Media

US television network, The Golf Channel expects to cross the 40 million subscriber mark during the fourth quarter of this year.
Business

A Ghanaian panel probing Africa's worst sports disaster recommended a number of policemen be prosecuted for their role in the death of 126 soccer fans at Accra's stadium in May, a panel member has said.
Business

Enic, the sports group that owns English Premier League soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, is expected to announce this week that it has sold UKbetting.com, its internet bookmaker, to Eric Semel, a former director of one of Las Vegas?s largest casinos.
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Media

UK firm BTopenworld, the online subsidiary of telecoms firm BT, has launched a cricket news and betting subscription service in partnership with online portal CricInfo and internet bookmaker BlueSquare.