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Next year's World Cup of Golf will be staged at the Victoria Clube de Golfe Course at Vilamoura in Portugal, the European Tour has announced.

The fledgling World Hockey Association says an agreement has been reached to purchase its trademarks.

Bell Canada has won the top sponsorship spot with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in a $CDN200million deal, nearly half of which is cash.

Jahangir Khan has been unanimously re-elected as president of the World Squash Federation (WSF) at the international federation's 34th Annual General Meeting.

A new Formula One team, Midland F1, will make its debut in 2006, according to a Russian-backed financial corporation.

The 1st World Outgames MontrC)al 2006 – an international gay sport and cultural event - has signed a sponsorship agreement with H.I.M., an Internet media company.

Rugby Canada has appointed Edmonton lawyer Roger Smith as its new president.

TWI Interactive (TWIi), the digital media and technology arm of IMG and Canada-based Kangaroo Capital, Inc. have joined forces to bring a unique handheld device to fans at live events around the world.

With the new NHL season little over a month away, team owners and players are set to go into complex contract negotiations tomorrow in a last-ditch bid to avoid a lock-out.

Three days of meetings between the NHL and the players' association failed to bring the sides closer to a new labour agreement to prevent a lockout in less than two weeks.

Sky Sports’ Rugby Union programming, including next summer's British & Irish Lions tour, will be sponsored by Diageo's Guinness brand.

Major League Baseball looks set to draw a record 74.3 million fans, with the New York Yankees notching up 3 million fans already and seven other clubs on track to do the same.

A tripartite agreement has been reached between Tourisme MontrC)al, Air Canada and MontrC)al 2006, for the first World Outgames – an international gay sport and cultural event.

Internet and television ratings were up during the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati.

NASCAR has unveiled NASCAR Mexico, a new base of operations in Mexico that will support and build local stock car racing in the country.

NASCAR has advanced further from its roots by stripping one Southern track of its only race and reducing another to one event in 2005. Down the road, the stock cars will almost certainly be spending even less time in the Southeast, where the sport flourished.