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FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Peter Velappan, head of the Asia Football Confederation, have said they are optimistic that an Asian boycott of the 2002 World Cup would be avoided.

Al-Dahshouri Harb has been appointed the new head of the Egypt Football Association (EFA) following the resignation of the EFA board.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter reaffirmed on Sunday that soccer's governing body would not meet Asia's demands for an automatic fifth berth at the 2002 World Cup finals.

President Fidel Castro has thrown his weight behind Cuba's ambitious bid to host the 2008 Olympics, saying it was merited both because of the island's athletic record and as a right for the Third World in general.

DIRECTV, the leading US digital pay-TV entertainment service, has reached an affiliate agreement with FOX Sports World to offer the network on the DIRECTV programming line-up beginning September 1, 1999.

Broadcaster Grupo Televisa said on Tuesday it was looking for buyers for one of the three Mexican first division soccer clubs it owns.

ESPN International and the National Football League (NFL) have agreed to extend their existing worldwide distribution agreement through the 2002 season.

Preparations for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games are in full swing after the initial delays that worried the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Games broadcasting supremo Manolo Romero said on Thursday.

CART has signed a deal with a local promoter to stage a round of its FedEx Championship Series in Mexico City.

Talks between the NFL and the Referees Association have broken off, making it likely that replacement officials will be used in six pre-season games on Thursday.

Latin American pay-TV broadcaster, Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) has appointed Luis Baraldi to the post of vice president for programming, production and operations.

A lease needed to bring minor-league baseball back to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the 2003 season has been approved by the City Council.

If News Corp Ltd. succeeds in its bid to take acquire Hughes Electronics Corp., the Australian news giant could gain control of a merged Latin America satellite television entity, a source at Mexico's Grupo Televisa has said.

Mexican baseball championship winning club Tigres, is to move from the capital city after 46 years and move to a new venue in Puebla.

Argentine cycling is facing a cash crisis with the national cycling federation unable to afford to send a team to the World Cup which gets underway in Mexico on Friday.

The Copa America outstripped the Superbowl and World Series amongst American Hispanics according to research out on Sunday.