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Australian broadcaster Seven Network is reported to be offering one and two-year advertising packages to potential Olympic telecast sponsors for A$7.5 million and A$13.5 million respectively.

The manager of world sprinting champions Maurice Green and Ato Boldon has blasted organisers of the much publicised IAAF Golden League series, claiming it actually cost the athletes money.

The number of tickets sold for the September Commonwealth Games has exceededthat for the last Games in Victoria in 1994. In Victoria, 190,000 ticketswere sold.

George Steinbrenner, owner of baseball's New York Yankees says he would consider staying in the Bronx if he can build a new stadium there, the Daily News reported Sunday.

Olympic leaders are to meet to discuss drug cheating in world sport.

Major League Baseball has decided it will not take a back seat to the National Football League in ESPN's September scheduling.

Olympic plans for a new worldwide drug testing agency take the battle against doping forwards but are unlikely to stop some athletes from using banned substances.

The National Hockey League's Board of Governor's has approved a five-year, $600 million contract giving the Walt Disney Co.'s ABC-TV and ESPN cable networks rights to air the league's games, sources with knowledge of the board's action said Friday.

American League umpire Al Clark, the focus of Major League Baseball's investigation into the sale of baseballs, said to have been used in David Wells' perfect game in May, has denied any involvement.

Security operations for the Sydney 2000 Olympics have been "sharpened" in response to the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the Sydney Olympic security commander has said.

The National Hockey League and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC broadcast and ESPN cable television networks Tuesday unveiled their five-year, $600 million TV deal, which dramatically boosts the cost of airing hockey even as ratings are falling.

Executives from Fox Group are contemplating tearing down the 36-year-old Dodger Stadium and building a new one, after cost estimates for a major renovation came in much higher than expected.

International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) president Primo Nebiolo has insisted it was safe to stage the Grand Prix final in Moscow.

The field of candidates to buy the NFL expansion team the Cleveland Browns has narrowed, with three of seven bidders dropping out.

Manchester United fans are planning a mass protest against Rupert Murdoch's bid for Britain's most celebrated soccer club in a spirited attempt to defy market forces.

National Football League owners have accepted a $530 million bid for the expansion Cleveland Browns from businessman Alfred Lerner following one of the most intense bidding wars in sports history.