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Sukom Ninety Eight Berhad has appointed the DRB-Hicom Group as the official sponsor of cars and motorcycles for the 19th Commonwealth Games.

The Fleet Financial Group in Boston has announced that it will supply a $405m credit line to Major League Baseball.

The Stanley Cup Playoffs in Canada last week posted unexceptional ratings on both the CBC and TSN networks.

Extending viewer choice is the key to enhancing the value of Olympic Games television contracts according to IOC vice-president Dick Pound.

ANC Sports has signed a ground-breaking , multi-year rotational signage agreement with the new Air Canada Centre in Toronto, scheduled to open in February, 1999.

An IOC report says preliminary results indicate that the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, were broadcast in more countries than ever before and that the global cumulative audience is likely to equal Lillehammer's record??.

There is a rumour that will not go away - this year's Commonwealth Games will have to be shifted from Malaysia to Australia because of smog.

Australian rugby's most powerful administrator has warned British teams that they risk being snubbed by Australia if they persist in picking weakened squads to tour Down Under.

A Dutch proposal to limit the number of countries allowed to bid to host the World Cup was rejected by FIFA's 51st Congress on Monday.

Coca-Cola Co. and the National Basketball Association have unveiled a four-year marketing plan to cross-promote Coke's Sprite soft drink and the NBA as part of an ongoing global marketing partnership.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) has recommended adding Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa to the four-nation Pacific Rim championship.

Canadian broadcaster TSN says first round World Cup matches have produced outstanding ratings.

A baseball World Cup tournament involving major league teams is possible as early as 2001 according to MLB president Paul Beeston.

Former New York Rangers coach Colin Campbell has been named Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations for the NHL.

Organisers of the XIII Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, are confident of working out "some hiccups and bumps" ahead of the third largest multi-sport event ever staged in North America.

A total of 79 million people on the continent are now logging on to the Internet, according to a new Neilsen survey, 36% more than the 58 million who were Internet users in September 1997.