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SportsLine.com and its majority-owned European subsidiary Sports.com, intend to form an Internet joint venture with Asiacontent.com, a leading developer of Asian Internet content, advertising and e-commerce services.

BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.

Adidas-Salomon has reported record operating profits and income before tax for the year 1999.

NBA.com TV Daily ? a new global video service providing updates and highlights of NBA action from the night before ? has gone live today.

The 10 cities hoping to host the 2008 Summer Games left International Olympic Committee headquarters this week confident they would all clear the first hurdle in the bidding process.

FIFA plan to establish a list of professional referees by the end of 2000 who would officiate at the 2002 World Cup finals.

Japan Sports Channel, Inc. (JSC) the loss-making digital sports channel, will be dissolved by its owners, Itochu Corp.

T&T Sports Marketing has sold the exclusive global rights outside of South America for the South American qualifying matches for the World Cup 2002 to Dream Sports International.

chinadotcom corporation, a leading pan-Asian Internet company that has formed an Asian joint venture with Nirve Sports, the ?Generation Y? e-brand, to develop and market the Nirve brand in Asia.

The International Olympic Committee has moved quickly to snuff out a new corruption row after a U.S. newspaper said a Japanese IOC member had given colleagues and their wives expensive necklaces 10 years ago.

The 2000 NBA All-Star Game, taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area, February 11- 13, will be shown in 205 countries, with a potential audience of 750million households.

The IOC has confirmed that ten cities have submitted preliminary bids for the 2008 Summer Games.

FIFA’s marketing and competitions director, Michael Black, has quit his job – less than 12 months before the World Cup kicks off in Japan and South Korea.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has appointed Japanese advertising giant Dentsu to handle worldwide television and sponsorship sales for its World Athletics Series.

German sports brand Puma has unveiled the first phase of its 2002 World Cup advertising campaign which focuses on the fortunes of the Cameroon national team.

Next year's French Formula One Grand Prix has been pushed back to the end of July to avoid any clash with the 2002 World Cup soccer finals.