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Australian rugby union players fearing for their safety won't be forced to go on the forthcoming tour of Europe, the head of the ARU said.

English First Division soccer club Wimbledon is considering a new stadium venue – just a mile from its former Plough Lane home.

The Football Association and the British Olympic Association are set for more discussions about entering a British football team in the Olympic Games.

Chocolate producer Cadbury has become a multi-million pound sponsor of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Reigning Scottish Premiership soccer champions Celtic are offering overseas fans the opportunity to watch the club's pre-season warm-up matches through a video-on-demand webcast.

Organisers of Scotland's bid for the 2009 Ryder Cup golf tournament have dismissed claims their bid may be blown out of the water by the end of the week if they do not come up with £200,000 ($278,000).

Telewest and NTL, the two big cable players in the UK, are joining forces to accelerate the take-up of high-speed internet services. Sport and Broadband: A new report from SportBusiness Group:

LEAGUE’ Glasgow Celtic, the leading Scottish soccer club, plans to play in the English Premier League, its chairman Dermot Desmond said in an interview.

Power Leisure, the Irish-based bookmaker, has put additional pressure on the Irish government to further cut betting duty after announcing plans to move its online and telephone operations to the UK where the nine percent betting tax on punters will be scrapped on October 6.

The importance of sport to almost every revenue stream in British satellite broadcaster BSkyB's digital offering has been highlighted by the release of its annual results for the year ended June 30, 2001.

The Scottish Rugby Union paid out nearly £2 million ($2.75m) to clubs in the last financial year - a new record and an eight per cent rise on the previous year.

The UK’s betting operators are joining forces to launch a £2m ($2.9m/B

Breeders' Cup officials this week unveiled a plan aimed at boosting familiarity and interest in European horses among American racing fans ahead of this year's multi-million dollar thoroughbred racing card.

The English Premier League has confirmed that it has signed a deal with Hong Kong-based telecom company Hutchinson3G for the rights to provide Premiership soccer content to mobile phones and wireless devices. Sport and Wireless: A new report from SportBusiness Group:

Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic have hailed a trial pay-per-view broadband broadcast a success – despite just 30 percent of broadband subscribers watching the game.

The Irish Horseracing Authority (IHA) wants to alter its media and betting operations to a system similar to the one used in the UK.