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Scottish soccer club, Glasgow Rangers has signed a deal with specialist sports licensing agency Giraffe to licence and distribute its merchandise overseas.

English soccer's Premier League has told sportbusiness.com it has offered the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) more money than ever before to avert the threat of a damaging players' strike.

UK broadcaster the BBC has hit out at newspaper reports claiming that it is to hold crisis talks with boxer Audley Harrison following the critical response to his narrow victory at the weekend.

Global Sportnet, the Hamburg-based marketing and consulting company, has secured the worldwide television and advertising rights to all UEFA Cup home matches of Milan-based soccer team FC Internazionale outside of two Italian territories.

Kuwait has postponed next month's second West Asian Games because of tensions in the area following the attacks on the United States.

Leo Hindery, CEO of the proposed Yankees Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network, has recruited several former co-workers from media firms AT&T Broadband and GlobalCenter to form the managment team of the new venture.

The drunken exploits of Chelsea soccer stars has put the English Premier League club's £24m ($35m/B

UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has reportedly called a crisis meeting with Olympic super-heavyweight champion Audley Harrison after the boxer's latest unimpressive display in the ring.

US dot com, SportVoices.com has ceased operational activities with immediate effect, putting its digital archive of over 40,000 interviews with sporting celebrities up for sale.

Organisers of the Heineken Cup rugby tournament have granted a request by Toulouse to switch their match with Irish province, Leinster.

The resumption of the NFL following the terrorist attacks in the US showed a significant drop in television ratings with fans clearly not ready to sit down and tune into the action so soon after the recent atrocities.

South African provincial cricket side Free State have played down suggestions Hansie Cronje will make a return to cricket with them if he wins his appeal against a life ban.

Six Nations rugby officials are considering an overhaul of the tournament structure, including the possibility of staging matches on a Friday night.

Organisers of an auto convention that has complicated plans to change the date of the Super Bowl say they would consider a payoff from the NFL.

UK-based financial services group Old Mutual have been unveiled as title sponsor for the upcoming one-day cricket series between Zimbabwe and England.

The gradual shift of the content of the US network CNN/Sports Illustrated (CNN/SI) from a sports news format towards more live event programming has led to the broadcaster adding over 1 million subscribers to its proposition during the summer.