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The United States Postal Service has signed a three-year contract extension to remain the title sponsor of the professional cycling team led by double Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said the world governing body's member associations must be unanimous when sanctioning players guilty of doping.

TalkSport, the UK radio station run by former editor of The Sun newspaper Kelvin McKenzie, has filed a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) saying the BBC allegedly abused its dominant position by overpaying for the rights to broadcast sports events on radio.

Hockey’s governing body the FIH has confirmed the rescheduling of the Men’s Champions Trophy in the light of escalating political tension.

Scottish soccer club Celtic’s ambitions to play in either the English Premier League or a new Euroleague have been dealt a double blow at the same time as the club announced increased losses, despite its most successful season for over 30 years.

The first test of enhanced security measures for next year's European soccer championships caused long traffic tailbacks at the weekend and led to complaints from local residents.

Yugoslavia's three teams competing in the UEFA Cup will play their "home" matches in the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

The Dutch government has topped up its security spending for next year?s Euro 2000 championship it is co-hosting with Belgium, bringing the total budget to $6.75million.

Nike is to open 10 new flagship stores in Asia-Pacific amid growing optimism about the economic recovery in the region, according to Financial Times registered sources.

The NFL is planning to show Sunday afternoon football in the Netherlands, Austria and Singapore via the Internet starting this weekend.

The organisers of Euro 2000 responded to complaints of major ticketing problems, saying that only "a few hundred" fans had suffered because of mistakes in the ticket allocation process.

Rangers have dismissed a plan by arch-rivals Celtic that they should both quit Scottish football to join a proposed European league involving top clubs from the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.

A simulated riot and fire drill intended as a test of security procedures for next year's European soccer championship had to be cut short at the weekend after a group of real hooligans turned up. The police, ambulance and fire services had invited about 800 volunteers to simulate a mass exit from a pretend fire in Rotterdam's De Kuip stadium and disturbances outside the ground.

Soccer legends Pele and Johan Cruyff share an apocalyptic vision that commercial exploitation may destroy professional football as we know it.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said that all international teams will play to a unified calendar after the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands next year.

The Dutch city of Arnhem is to spend one million guilders ($500,000) on close circuit television cameras ahead of next year's European soccer championship.