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Leading Swedish clubs AIK Stockholm, IFK Gothenburg and Helsingborg might be interested in playing in a new European league if governing body UEFA backs the idea.

iN Demand, the US pay-per-view network, is to showcase its first-ever sports production this autumn with the debut of five Sanex WTA Tour tournaments.

Global Sportnet, the Hamburg-based sports marketing agency, and Rayo Valleceno, the Spanish side with a place in this season?s UEFA Cup have closed a deal that covers the worldwide and exclusive marketing of the club?s television and advertising rights to European matches.

German soccer chief Horst R. Schmidt has said that no money would be spared in his country's efforts to make the 2006 World Cup the best of all time.

Three-times Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker is to act as front man for a new internet sports platform venture being launched by Pixelpark AG, Germany's biggest web designer.

UK satellite and digital broadcaster BSkyB is to show this fall?s England soccer internationals against France and Italy exclusively live on its Sky Sports service.

A new race in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as well as first-time events in England, Germany and Mexico highlight the record 22-race FedEx Championship Series schedule for the 2001 season.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter emerged triumphantly from his organisation's biennial Congress on Saturday only to find the fragile unity of world soccer's governing body crumbling badly around him.

Three-times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been asked by the German tax administration to pay 10 million marks ($4.63 million), reports the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

South African soccer officials have confirmed they were dropping their campaign to get FIFA to vote again on the venue for the 2006 World Cup finals.

FIFA is to implement a new rotation system in awarding the rights to host its premier property, the World Cup.

FIFA has firmly rejected South Africa's request for arbitration over last month's vote to award the 2006 World Cup finals to Germany.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has announced the agreement of a $400 million 10-year TV and sponsorship deal..

The FIFA executive committee meet today for the first time since the controversial vote on the 2006 World Cup host.

FIFA says it has still not received any official confirmation from South Africa that it wishes to take the 2006 World Cup decision to arbitration.

Hockenheim should remain the venue of the German Grand Prix providing it undergoes a major facelift, Baden-Wuerttemberg State Premier Erwin Teufel has said.