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Australian soccer club the Canberra Cosmos is set to pursue legal action after being dumped from the country's national soccer league today.

KS ‘Bud’ Adams Jr, owner of the NFL's Tennessee Titans (pictured), has been approved for an expansion team for the Nashville Arena Football League, commissioner David Baker has confirmed.

The weekend TV ratings slump for the NFL continued with the viewing figures for the flagship Monday Night Football (MNF) show slipping on the previous year.

The National Basketball Development League (NBDL) is broadening the reach of its television coverage following a deal with Fox Sports Net South.

SportsMediaRights.com, an online sports rights marketplace, and Iacto AB, an online marketplace for broadcast services, have agreed to a strategic partnership to offer both services to their clients.

Veteran South Carolina business executive Charlie Bradshaw has been appointed to the board of directors for Team Sports Entertainment with a view to head up its new stock car racing series.

Online gaming operation, The Golden Palace Online Casino, is to sponsor the middleweight boxing bout in the US later this month that will decide the undisputed world champion.

Motorola has signed a deal with the NFL to produce team-branded mobile phone designs.

SportsMediaRights.com, the online sports rights marketplace powered by sport media specialists Media Content, has signed a strategic partnership deal with Iacto.

Greece has pledged to deliver key venues for the 2004 Olympics on time despite construction delays that have worried the IOC.

The man who transformed the NBA and athlete endorsements – Michael Jordan – has confirmed he will return to the sport as a player.

The man who transformed the NBA and athlete endorsements – Michael Jordan – has confirmed he will return to the sport as a player.

The vice-president of German soccer giants Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, has described the UEFA Cup as a "mess" and called on the marketing of TV rights to be centralised.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has appointed Japanese advertising giant Dentsu to handle worldwide television and sponsorship sales for its World Athletics Series.

Soccerex 2001 has been postponed until next April following the terrorist attacks in the US.

Media analysts have described the idea of rival Major League Baseball (MLB) teams following the example of the New York Yankees by setting up their own regional TV networks as ‘a risk’.