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Digital Sport, the international sports and media company which owns pan-European soccer news website onefootball.com, has bought sports agency Icon Management Solutions, in a cash and shares deal. The acquisition is part of Digital’s move to become a broad-based sports management and media group.
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Vivendi Universal is considering selling its 22.74 per cent stake in BSkyB on the stock market, in a move that would seem certain to create a rift with Rupert Murdoch whose News Corporation holds a controlling 37.5 per cent shareholding in the UK satellite platform.
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ITV, the UK terrestrial broadcasting channel, has denied a decision has been made on who will become the £18m ($25m) sponsor of ITV’s Premier League football coverage next season.

Hundreds of football hooligans have been banned from leaving Britain for tomorrow's World Cup qualifying clash against Greece, the Home Office said.
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' quest for a new stadium has produced the first volley in a potential bidding war among the suburbs.
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Australian soccer teams the Brisbane Strikers and Canberra Cosmos have vowed to take legal action over their axing from the National Soccer League.
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Formula One boss Frank Williams called for a review of contracts for leading technical personnel on Monday following the tug-of-war between McLaren and Jaguar over the services of designer Adrian Newey.
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India's professional golf tour has no plans to hand the commercial rights for the coming season to a fresh bidder, the Indian Professional Golfers' Association (PGAI) said on Monday.
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US software powerhouse Microsoft Corp takes aim at the couch potato market this week with the high-stakes launch of its top interactive TV product on a Portuguese cable network.
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African soccer champions Hearts Of Oak have signed a $5m, four-year sponsorship deal with sporting goods manufacturer L-Sporto, according to the club’s official web site.
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Ford’s Jaguar Racing subsidiary has threatened legal action against Formula One designer Adrian Newey and his current employer, rival F1 team McLaren International.

UK sports retailer JJB Sports has reported a seven per cent rise in like-for-like sales in the first 18 weeks of the current year.
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US broadcasters, Turner Network Television (TNT) and NBC have sold 11 of the title sponsorship entitlements for their joint coverage of the 20 NASCAR Winston Cup races.
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The cost of servicing a debt of £4.5 billion ($6.3 billion) helped Telewest Communications, the UK’s second largest cable company after NTL, report a widening of losses to £209m ($294.4m) from £137m ($193m) for the three months to March 31.

Chung Mong Joon, vice-president of soccer’s world governing body FIFA and co-chairman of Korea’s 2002 World Cup organising committee, said he thinks that the tournament, which it will co-host with Japan, will help bring political stability and prosperity to Asia.
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Chung Mong Joon, South Korean vice-president of soccer’s world governing body FIFA has urged its president Sepp Blatter to reveal all he knows about the financial collapse of its marketing agent ISL-ISMM.

The feeding ground for US ice hockey’s National Hockey League (NHL) has been revamped after it was announced that the American Hockey League (AHL) is expanding its structure to include eight new teams in time for next season.
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The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens have begun discussions with PSINet Inc in relation to the US internet access provider’s 20-year, $104 million naming rights deal.