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The new World Golf Championship series, comprising three tournaments in 1999, will each offer minimum prize money of $5 million with winner's cheques of at least $1 million.

Mike Tyson took a hit from a U.S. appeals court when it reinstated a $4.4 million damage award against him in a breach of contract case brought by the boxer's former trainer, Kevin Rooney.

Australian sports officials are hoping to bring the Goodwill Games Down Under.

Brisbane's selection to host the Goodwill Games in 2001 would provide the city with its biggest event since the 1988 Expo, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has said.

American wrestlers will attend an international tournament in Iran in September, months after a groundbreaking visit by a U.S. team which launched exchanges between the two hostile countries.

American Callaway Golf Co has said a California federal court has allowed its golf ball trademark and false advertising suit against Spalding Worldwide to go ahead.

Callaway Golf Co reports a California federal court has allowed its golf ball trademark and false advertising suit against Spalding Worldwide to go ahead.

Lynx Golf Inc. has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is considering a potential recapitalization or sale of the company.

The Goodwill Games failed to live up to their name when politics intruded.

International sports chiefs are to attend a world conference on drug abuse after recent controversies have shown that doping is still a huge problem nearly a decade after the Ben Johnson scandal.

Satellite providers NTL and Williams Vyvx Services have announced an alliance to deliver comprehensive occasional video services to the global broadcasting community.

Most New Yorkers want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx and are against building a stadium in Manhattan - even if that were the only way to keep the baseball team in New York, a poll has shown.

The Dallas Cowboys have filed a lawsuit against sportswear company Converse Inc. in an attempt to protect the signature five-pointed blue star that appears on the teams helmets and other official merchandise, IS Newsire reports.

Former Coca-Cola sports marketing executive Simon Crane has joined Loftus Road, the company which owns and operates English soccer and rugby clubs Queens Park Rangers and Wasps.

Carmen Policy who resigned last week after seven years as president of the 49ers, has announced that he and billionaire banker Al Lerner are applying to buy the Cleveland expansion team that begins play in 1999.

Twenty-three-year NBC veteran Randy Falco is taking over as president of the NBC TV Network this fall, replacing Neil Braun, who announced his resignation and plans to join the bidding for Polygram Filmed Entertainment.