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Manchester United fans are planning a mass protest against Rupert Murdoch's bid for Britain's most celebrated soccer club in a spirited attempt to defy market forces.

National Football League owners have accepted a $530 million bid for the expansion Cleveland Browns from businessman Alfred Lerner following one of the most intense bidding wars in sports history.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has hit out on at

St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire's record 62nd home run on Tuesday brought a historic rating high for the Fox network.

Manchester United fans vowed on Wednesday to fight every inch of the way to stop their club being taken over by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB.

After two events in San Diego, the 1999 X Games will be held in SanFrancisco, California from June 25-July 3, 1999, it was announced by Jeff Ruhe, ESPN senior vice president, event management.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has denied accusations that he chose October 3 as the date for a general election in order to cash in on a welter of sports events expected to divert the sports-mad nation's attention.

The IOC plans to lobby professional sports in the United States to conform with the Olympics drug policy, including a ban on the muscle-building compound used by home-run record holder Mark McGwire.

Athletic apparel giant Riddell Sports Inc. has announced it has won rights to market team soccer apparel and equipment in the United States made by the British firm Umbro International Inc.

Athletic apparel giant Riddell Sports Inc. has announced it has won rights to market team soccer apparel and equipment in the United States made by the British firm Umbro International Inc.

Fox's season premiere of "Ally McBeal" beat ABC?s "Monday Night Football" in the 9-10 p.m. timeslot among adults 18-49 for the first time ever, adding to a string of unspectacular results for the NFL broadcasts this season.

IOC President Samaranch said Wednesday he hopes the proposed Olympic anti-drug agency could be up and running by the end of next year.

Advertisers, invited for the first time to a sports trade show here, have warned sporting event organisers that they should not milk their events for money.

Talks have heated up in Cablevision System Corp.'s negotiations to buy the New York Yankees, with an offer that could leave the Yankess owner controlling three of the regions pro-sports franchises.

ABC's Monday Night Football continued to dominate ratings this week but Baseball and Clinton's Presidential peccadilloes made for unspectacular figures, with the lowest rated Dallas game ever.

The National Basketball Association, which imposed a lockout on its players in July, has cancelled training camps and 24 preseason games through October 16.

The league cited a lack of progress in negotiations as the reason for the cancellations.