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Atlanta?s ten year old Senior PGA Tour event could become another victim of the dot com crash.

The climax of a soap opera whodunit, which has gripped Britain for weeks, will delay the kick-off of an international soccer match in Spain.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has verbally agreed to fight Nigerian David Izon in Kuala Lumpur in June, according to fight promoters.

Internet surfers visiting the official Major League Baseball web site are drawn to the defending world champion New York Yankees more than any other team.

Baseball fans face an increase in average ticket price of nearly 13 per cent this season, according to the Team Marketing Report's annual survey.

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.

Asian Internet firm chinadotcom is to cut more than 400 staff by June and sell non-core operations.

US-based managed services company Aramark will supply 13 Major League Baseball stadiums with managed food, retail merchandise and other services, when the new season begins April 1.

Major League Baseball will charge fans to listen to broadcasts of its games over the internet, according to the New York Times.

NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol says he is set to pull the plug on the XFL if ratings don?t improve, according to a report in the Washington Post.

Susan O?Malley, president of Washington Sports and Entertainment is to speak at the International Association of Assembly Managers? 76th Annual Conference and Trade Show in Los Angeles this summer.

Rugby union chiefs are threatening to ban England's top players from international competition unless they rip up an agreement signed with the country's leading clubs this week, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has defended the NFL against allegations by owners of the Raiders franchise that the league had forced the Raiders out of the LA market by requiring the franchise to allow a second team to share a proposed new facility in Inglewood.

Hot favourite to replace Juan Antonio Samaranch as president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, is to officially declare his candidacy next week.

Comcast Business Communications has been contracted to outfit Detroit's Comerica Park stadium's suites with the company's new managed internet service.

Organisers of next year?s Commonwealth Games in Manchester have denied the event is in financial trouble.