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Matt Millen, who won four Super Bowls with three different NFL teams during his playing days, will be charged with trying to bring a championship to the Detroit Lions after being named the team's president and chief executive officer.

Buick have showcased a new roadster car at the Detroit Auto Show named after Tiger Woods and designed to target young affluent golf fans.

Online sports retailer MVP.com has laid off a further 36 employees, leaving it with 43 employees at its Chicago headquarters or a quarter of its original staff.

All-event ticket packages for the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships go on sale next Monday.

Hardwood Media and online commerce and publishing firm TEKgroup International, has launched the ABA 2000 Internet Network, a

Soldier Field in Chicago will get a $587 million face-lift after Illinois Gov. George Ryan signed into law a bill to help finance the project.

News Corp. has named Brian Mulligan, a former top executive at both Universal Pictures and its Seagram Co. parent, chairman of its Fox Television unit.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is to consolidate its digital media unit in the United States with Fox television, leading to ``significant cost savings''.

The Oakland Raider?s first NFL playoff game for seven years could be blighted by the distribution of hundreds of duplicate tickets by the Coliseum?s ticket operation.

The NBA has fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $250,000 for his "outbursts and actions concerning game officials" after a 107-104 loss to the Detroit Pistons.

Sport Supply Group Inc., Dallas, which sells athletic equipment to schools, camps and colleges through a catalogue, has resolved a series of financial and legal problems.

Brazilian soccer directors have postponed a decision on the outcome of the Joao Havelange Cup final which was abandoned on Saturday when a stadium fence collapsed under a crush of fans.

US sports marketing agency Millsport has hired John Tarkas as general manager of its Athens office.

Susan Potter Norton, principal of Allen, Norton and Blue, Florida's largest labour and employment law firm, has been named the first female president to head the Orange Bowl Committee.

Staples Center owners, the L.A. Arena Co, are to sell the Great Western Forum - the Los Angeles Lakers' former home ? to a church group in a $22.5million deal.

Baltimore public relations agency Warschawski PR(WPR), has been retained by the Washington Power, the National Lacrosse League's (NLL) newest professional indoor lacrosse franchise.