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Major League Baseball has once again pulled the plug on games this week in the light of the terrorist events in the US earlier this week – the first time all regular season games have been postponed since D-Day, 1944.

CART CEO Joseph Heitzler has confirmed this weekend’s inaugural European race will take place – as reported yesterday on sportbusiness.com.

InterClubNet, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)-listed online player-trading platform, has appointed Alec McGivan as its international sales and marketing director.

Tennis tournaments in the US and Brazil will continue this week despite Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.

UFA Sports has signed a deal with Turkish soccer club Galatasaray to act as the marketing agency for the club for four years .

The first European CART race this weekend is expected to take place in Germany, despite security fears following Tuesday's terrorist attack in the US.

Premier One Racing is set to announce its first English soccer club later this month - as it promises all major European clubs will be represented in the new motorsport.

The International Olympic Committee said the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City will go ahead as scheduled between February 8-24.

Golf's Ryder Cup looks almost certain to become the latest victim of the terrorist monstrosity in the US yesterday - as sport is put on hold across the globe.

Glasgow Rangers’ appeal against playing its Uefa Cup tie in Dagestan has been rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Real Madrid has clinched a six-year deal with an unnamed Middle Eastern company for the rights to its RMTV channel - believed to be Arab Radio & Television (ART).

MP Web, the new media company of Milan-based sports marketers Media Partners Group, and Italian Serie A soccer club AC Parma have signed an exclusive management agreement for the official website of AC Parma until 2009.

Arlington Park has been named as the “conditional” host of the 2002 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships after Breeders’ Cup Ltd approved a tentative schedule through 2005.

Francis Baron, secretary of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), has confirmed they will bid to host the 2007 World Cup tournament which will put England in direct competition with France.

Ignite Sports, the interactive sports publisher, has launched a new publishing system designed to enable a broad range of sports properties to manage and update their web sites from any internet access point.

English Rugby League team the London Broncos confirmed to sportbusiness.com that, contrary to earlier reports, no decision on who would take over from Virgin as the new owners of the club would be made until next week.