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Prize money for the Sanex WTA Tour will be increased by more than $3 million for the 2000 season, organisers have announced.

Morocco's 2006 World Cup campaign boss said during a lobbying visit to Nigeria that Africa should make only a single bid to host the tournament.Morocco and South Africa are among five nations bidding to host the 2006 finals along with Brazil, England and Germany."FIFA may find it easier to reject Africa's bid if both Morocco and South Africa insist on presenting their bids, citing lack of unity," Driss Benhima, head of the Morocco 2006 bid committee, told reporters.Benhima said the Confederation of African Football had to evolve a fair method of choosing either Morocco or South Africa. CAF are due to discuss the issue at their next Congress in Accra, Ghana in February.

Ufa-Sports chairman Bernd Hoffmann has said that he will seek a meeting with the chairman of Hamburg SV Werner Hackmann to clarify the relationship between the two organisations, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

U.S. sportswear maker Nike Inc said initial tests on soccer shirts in German Bundesliga soccer team Borussia Dortmund colours - withdrawn last week after traces of a toxic chemical were found in them - had shown the jerseys were safe.

Libya is supporting Morocco in its efforts to stage the 2006 World Cup finals, according to reports from a local news agency.

Germany's campaign to host the 2006 Soccer World Cup moved to Central Africa this week when German soccer legend and bid leader Franz Beckenbauer arrived in Cameroon to drum up support.

FIFA vice-president David Will, has cautioned Celtic and Rangers against setting up a proposed Atlantic League without authorisation from the world's governing body.

Former World Cup hero, Sir Bobby Charlton, championing England's campaign to host the 2006 World Cup, has appealed to Africans to support England if two bids from their own continent are unsuccessful.

Uli Hoeness, commercial manager of Germany's richest football club, Bayern Munich, has backed a decision by the German Football Association to allow pay-per-view broadcasts of Bundesliga soccer matches.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has repeated that he felt the the World Cup finals in 2006 should go to Africa.

Both the BBC and its rival ? the commercial network ITV ? will broadcast live coverage of the England vs Germany clash at Euro 2000 this summer.

The German Open golf tournament in August will be held at the Sporting Club Berlin on a new course designed by Briton Nick Faldo, the European Tour has announced.

Former tennis star Ion Tiriac has been appointed chairman of the Romanian Olympic Committee (COR).

Britain's tabloid newspapers have been warned to beware of inciting violence during next month's World Cup.

Romanian national coach Anghel Iordanescu has accused the country's soccer authorities of endangering the country's World Cup chances by denying him funds, facilities and competitive warm-up matches.

World Cycling Limited (WCL) and the Polish Cycling Federation have announced the founding of the Solidarity Cup, an international friendship series consisting of two major cycling events in Poland and the United States.