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Escalating steel prices could create havoc with the construction budget of two major new stadium builds in the US.
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Sydney's Olympic authorities have threatened to close an Aboriginal Arts centre immediately outside the main stadium if it was used as a focus for protests to highlight the plight of the country's Aborigines.

Russian soccer was "a disaster" at home and abroad in 1999, the long serving president of the Russian Football Union has said.
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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.
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Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has reassured Australian Health Minister, Michael Wooldridge a ban on tobacco sponsorship will not adversely affect Australian involvement in the sport.

The introduction of ?Saturday Night Live? comedian Dennis Miller to ABC?s coverage of "Monday Night Football" has backfired.
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The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Wednesday it had summoned Amore Vita cycling team director Gianluigi Barsottelli to a hearing on January 7 over doping allegations. CONI said in a statement its anti-doping commission had summoned Barsottelli after studying documents from Bologna magistrates who have been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into alleged doping in cycling. A spokesman for the Italian Professional Cyclists' League said Barsottelli's team was affiliated to the English cycling federation this year.
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UK-based event construction company Eve Trakway has been awarded a five-year contract to supply The London Marathon with barriers to control crowds at the event.

The founder and president of the International Boxing Federation was found not guilty on Thursday of taking over $300,000 in bribes in exchange for giving boxers higher rankings and opportunities to fight big-money bouts.

Permission and affinity-based email marketer, PopMail.com, has joined online sports content provider ACSSports.com.