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The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) has filed a lawsuit against Canadian businesses that it claims are illegally distributing pay-per-view telecasts of WWF events.

Organisers said they were not worried ticket sales for the world athletics championships were $1.65 million ($2.4 million Canadian) below their $8.33 million ($12.5 million Canadian) target on Wednesday, 16 days before the opening ceremony in Edmonton, Alberta.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the fight over public funding for a $250 million NBA arena for the Memphis Grizzlies.

Outgoing president Juan Antonio Samaranch pulled strings for Belgian Jacques Rogge to win Monday's IOC presidential election, a losing South Korean candidate has claimed.

Newly elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge was left with no time to savour his triumph as he faced a daunting start to his eight-year term of office.

Leading IOC member Jacques Rogge is poised to take over the most powerful job in world sport as IOC president in July, according to the results of a new survey.

Osaka is not ready to throw in the towel in the race to stage the 2008 summer Olympic Games, bid officials have said.

Teleglobe Broadcast Services have been selected by News Corps units Fox Digital and Fox Sports to provide digital video transmission of National Football League Europe games to North American viewers on Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net and DirectTV.

The NBA has stated it will not allow teams to be named after corporations, meaning the Vancouver Grizzlies will not become the Memphis Express even if the league approves the move.

A US government official has stated that President George Bush will not block Bejing?s bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, despite the current political unrest between the US and China.

US-based Fox Cable Networks Group, a division of Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation, has agreed a transfer of programming interests with rival cable firm Comcast. The deal will see Fox sell its stakes in the Golf Channel and the Outdoor Life Network (OLN) to Comcast in exchange for ownership of motor racing network Speedvision in which Fox currently holds a minority stake.

Beijing expects to receive revenues of $1.625bn from hosting the 2008 Olympic Games if its bid is successful, Jiang Xiaoyu, vice-chairman of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Committee has said.

A court in the Swiss town of Zug declared the Swiss sports rights marketing firm ISMM-ISL officially bankrupt on Monday after French media group Vivendi Universal last week withdrew a rescue offer.

The National Hockey League (NHL) may be participating in the Winter Olympic Games for the last time in Salt Lake City next February.

TV broadcaster ABC?s five playoff telecasts have averaged a 1.6 rating, an increase of 14 percent over last season?s first five games.

A favourable review of Beijing's 2008 Games bid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) showed human rights protestors and US critics were out of step with world opinion, a Beijing official said on Sunday.