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FAST Web Media, the creators of the EPLSoccer.com search engine, have launched a new site – Megasoccer.com - a soccer search engine with video news, features and data containing information on 45 countries, from over 80 leagues and over 1000 teams.

Colombia will host next month's Copa America as planned despite a recent spate of bombings there, according to South American Football Confederation (CSF) officials.

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has signed a six-year sponsorship deal with information technology company Avaya, believed to be worth £14 million ($19.61 million), reports the Wall Street Journal.

A Nigerian government delegation, led by Minister for Sport and President of Africa’s Supreme Council in Sports, Ishaya Mark Aku, is meeting this week with international agencies to invite bids for the commercial exploitation of the 2003 All-Africa Games.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) president and chief executive officer Joseph F. Heitzler has been named chairman of the board of directors for the open-wheel racing sanctioning organisation.

A $342 million sports and cultural project, which would have bought a new downtown arena for US basketball team Charlotte Hornets, has been rejected by voters in Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city.

A string of companies who are either suppliers of soccer equipment or soccer sponsors, are failing to refer to their link with the game on their web sites, according to research carried out by FAST Web Media, the company behind fapremier.com.

Australian quarantine officials said on Wednesday they were on full alert for the arrival of thousands of British and Irish rugby union fans who could carry foot-and-mouth disease into Australia.

UK soccer stadium operator Stadium Radio has signed Clear Channel Radio Sales (CCRS) to sell advertising on the group’s array of stations in a new five-year deal.

Boca Resorts Inc said on Tuesday it had reached a $101 million agreement to sell its entertainment and sports division, which owns the Florida Panthers National Hockey League (NHL) team, to an investment group that includes former Miami Dolphins quarterback Bernie Kosar.

Australian broadcaster Seven Network has defended its decision to only show delayed coverage of the first two-hour sessions of this summer’s Ashes contests between England and Australia, stating that it could not justify screening the cricket in an early evening timeslot.

FIFA and Avaya Inc are set to unveil an accord under which the US business communications group will sponsor the 2002 and 2006 World Cup soccer championships, football's governing body said on Wednesday.

US broadcaster NBC will lose an estimated $36 million in advertising revenue if the Los Angeles Lakers continue their winning streak and whitewash the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA finals.

The Greek first division will be reduced to 14 teams from 16 only for the coming season, the national soccer association (EPO) said on Wednesday.

FIFA have put back by 24 hours an executive committee meeting expected to discuss the collapse of ISL-ISMM, world soccer's governing body said on Wednesday.

Australian spinner Shane Warne has ended his high profile association with Nike and signed a cricket boot deal worth more than US$500,000 with European company Mitre.