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A letter Dick Pound wrote to key Olympic broadcasters and sponsors shortly after his loss in the IOC presidential election was not sour grapes, the Montreal lawyer said Tuesday.

The Continental Basketball Association - the longest-standing professional basketball league in the world - will today announce its relaunch in the US and Canada.

Sports Minister Richard Caborn has promised that the UK will demonstrate it is capable of hosting the Olympics in case the Government bids to bring the Games to Britain in 2012.

Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.

Edward O'Hara and Gregory Economou, the two principals of brand identity development company, SME Power Branding, have separated from the SFX Sports Group, which acquired the company in 1999.

War veterans complained on Friday that the new "Diggers" nickname given to Australia's world championship team in Edmonton, Canada, was inappropriate.

Cricket minnows Canada, Kenya, Namibia and the Netherlands will share a one-million-dollar fund to help them prepare for the 2003 World Cup.

US season ticket management company Season Ticket Solutions (STS) has launched a ticket exchange that will allow ticket holders from major league sports teams and venues to resell unused tickets through a transaction that is legal in all 50 states and Canada.

European sports information provider Infostrada Sports and North American equivalent STATS have formed a strategic content and technology sharing alliance.

Like millions of basketball fans, Gatorade is eager to see if Michael Jordan will return to the game.

Alfredo Goyeneche, president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, says the Olympic Games will not return to Europe until 2016.

South American Football Confederation (CSF) president Nicolas Leoz, whose organisation staged the Copa America at only six days' notice, says his dream is for every country in the Americas to take part in the future.

US-based ticketing company Season Ticket Solutions has secured InvestLinc Financial Services, a Chicago-area business advisory and financial services firm, as the lead investor in a $5million (?5.71m) second round of private equity funding.

Angry football supporters wearing red noses protested outside headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Tuesday after the four-times world champions' shock defeat by Honduras the day before.

UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has signed up 400m stars Cathy Freeman and Michael Johnson as part of its commentary team for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, to be held in Edmonton, Canada through August 3-12.

Ninety percent of the population of Beijing tuned into the broadcast of the Olympic vote on the host city for the 2008 Games which saw the Chinese capital emerge victorious.