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Most players in this year's Euro 2000 tournament will have to pay 18 percent of their earnings in tax, tournament officials have announced.

Danny Jordaan made a powerful appeal to FIFA's executive committee to end the cycle of European domination of world soccer by handing South Africa the 2006 World Cup finals.

Romania's sports ministry (MTS) has launched an official investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, a ministry spokesman has said.

A FIFA inspection team has arrived in Morocco for a five-day visit, saying the country's bid file to host the 2006 World Cup was outstanding.

A Moroccan official said he was surprised by the results of a poll of sports editors showing the country was bottom of the list of the five bidding to host the 2006 World Cup finals.

Teamtalk.com, the soccer Internet company, is planning to raise #60m ($97m) through a placing of new ordinary shares.

The results of a poll of leading sports editors making England favourites to host the 2006 World Cup finals confirmed support had turned their way, Alec McGivan, director of England's bid, has said.

Representatives from large clubs in the Netherlands, Scotland, Belgium and Portugal met in Amsterdam this week to discuss the problems of being big fish in small soccer ponds.

OnDigital, the UK's digital terrestrial pay-TV unit, jointly owned by Carlton and Granada, has won the exclusive live rights for The Master Series tennis, according to The Observer newspaper.

Extreme Sports Channel, the new adventure and adrenaline sports service, is now available on digital cable in Germany.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has praised England's bid to stage the 2006 World Cup finals and at the same time said it was not, as some had predicted, a foregone conclusion the finals would go to Africa.

Extreme Sports Channel, the adventure and adrenaline sports service, is now available on digital cable in Germany.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will support one of Africa's two bids for the 2006 World Cup finals after FIFA inspection visits to Morocco and South Africa.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has given Brazil a timely boost in the race to host the 2006 World Cup.

European soccer's showcase club competition, the Champions League, should be shorter, according to Bayern Munich commercial manager Uli Hoeness.

The European Commission's ruling that Formula One's global broadcasting rights breached EU competition law could force F1 out of Europe, Silverstone chief executive Denys Rohan has been quoted as saying.