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The Pan American Games torch will be lit at a major pre-Hispanic ruin outside Mexico City on June 23 to begin a month-long, three-country journey to Winnipeg, host for the 1999 Games, organisers said.

Major League Baseball could swing into the Far East as part of a plan to increase its international profile.
Events

The Sports Authority have announced that Jeffrey I. Handler has been appointed senior vice president, marketing & advertising.
Business

The New York Yankees not only won the World Series, but they also topped the list of Major League Baseball's money makers for 1998.
Business

Ben Johnson, the disgraced Canadian sprinter who received a life-time ban from the IAAF in 1993 for registering excessive testosterone levels, may be allowed to race again.
Business

The Sports Authority recorded a quarterly net loss of $1.5 million or $0.05 per share for the fiscal period ended April 25, 1999.

Indianapolis will win one of four expansion franchises in the WNBA, according to unidentified NBA sources cited by the The Indianapolis Star and News.

Plans for a new professional American football league to compete with the NFL will be revealed today.
Business

A new organisation of athletes has demanded a more "inclusive, democratic and accountable" International Olympic Committee (IOC) - the tarnished governing body of the Summer and Winter Games.
Business

Transfer rules preventing European basketball players switching clubs to compete mid-season are justified under certain conditions, a European Union judge said on Tuesday in an interim court ruling.
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Rugby Football Union (RFU), the English sport's governing body, has appointed Lowe Howard-Spink to promote the game in advance of the Rugby World Cup which takes place in the UK in October.
Business

Ajay Sports, Inc. have completed the purchase of all outstanding capital stock from Pro Golf of America, the franchiser of Pro Golf Discount retail golf stores.

Organisers of the Sahara Cup cricket tournament have announced they are cancelling the one-day series between India and Pakistan in Canada this year because of the Kashmir conflict.
Business

Athletics Canada says it is going to court in an effort to throw out an arbitrator's decision allowing banned sprinter Ben Johnson to seek reinstatement.
Business

Organising committee members for the 2000 Sydney and 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics have updated representatives of 42 national Olympic committees on their preparations.
Business

Sports lawyers have been the only people to profit this week in a bleak few days for track and field.
Business

Sports lawyers have been the only people to profit this week in a bleak few days for track and field.

Lisbon is expected to launch its second bid this year to host a major sports event.