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

The G-14 group of top European soccer clubs meets in Monaco today to decide on how it will transform itself from a lobby group into a legitimate force that can shape the future of the game at the highest level.

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.

Cricket minnows Canada, Kenya, Namibia and the Netherlands will share a one-million-dollar fund to help them prepare for the 2003 World Cup.

United Arab Emirates cricket authorities demanded yesterday that all of their team's matches in the ICC Trophy be replayed because two of their top players were refused entry into Canada.

A major row has broken out over Dutch soccer giants Ajax Amsterdam?s plans to install an artificial pitch at its Amsterdam ArenA.

France stayed ahead of Brazil atop of the FIFA world soccer rankings for a third straight month, while Germany climbed three places to fifth.

A day after Dutch soccer club Ajax Amsterdam clinched a place in next season's Champions League qualifying rounds, tax inspectors arrived at the club to investigate allegations of irregular payments.

Teleglobe Broadcast Services have been selected by News Corps units Fox Digital and Fox Sports to provide digital video transmission of National Football League Europe games to North American viewers on Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net and DirectTV.

A meeting of the G14 group of top European soccer clubs has failed to agree criteria for the admission of new clubs, reports sportbusiness.com soccer writer Simon Banks from Milan.

TalkSport, the UK radio station run by the former editor of The Sun newspaper Kelvin McKenzie, has filed a complaint against the BBC with the Office of Fair Trading over the radio rights to the England versus Greece World Cup qualifier next month.

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.

Munich will miss out on the 2006 World Cup soccer finals in Germany because a row over a new stadium will not be solved on time, TSV 1860 Munich president Karl-Heinz Wildmoser said on Tuesday.

Only clubs which can prove they are financially stable and soundly managed will be allowed to compete in fixtures organised by UEFA from the 2003-04 season, European soccer's governing body has announced.

The Greek FA (EPO) has called on the Greek government to throw their backing behind a joint bid with Turkey to stage the European soccer championship in 2008.

The United States Swim Coaches Association has added its voice to calls for the world governing body, FINA, to ban swimmers? bodysuits until they have been scientifically evaluated.