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Ticket touts have flown into Sydney from around the world but their hopes of making a fast buck from the Olympics have been dashed.

With only hours to go before the start of the millennium Olympics, troops were called in to combat chronic transport problems dogging the Games, but Aboriginal protests fizzled out.

Shares in Major League Baseball team the Cincinnati Reds, owned by Carl A Kroch, who died last year, have been bought by the club?s owners.

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games broadcast is expected to shatter the marks set by the Atlanta 1996 Olympic broadcast in nearly all areas. As such, it will be the largest and most watched sports event broadcast in history. See the `FEATURES? section of SportBusiness.com for the full story.

The European Union has welcomed the settlement of a row over foreign television access to the Sydney Olympics.

Sports marketing executive Steve Ryan has been named commissioner of the National Professional Soccer League.

Sydney Games organisers are putting their money on hitting an Olympic record for ticket sales, even before the opening ceremony on Friday.

Online digital sports content provider Quokka Sports has hosted U.S. Secretary of Commerce Norm Mineta at their San Francisco headquarters.

Formula One racing will return to the United States after an absence of almost 10 years on September 24 ? and leading teams are already courting the US media to publicise the event.

Almost every person on the planet with access to a television will watch the Sydney Olympics at some time in the next month.

A FIFA official has said some 2002 World Cup soccer matches could be staged in North Korea after the two Koreas agreed to march under the same flag at the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games have become too big to be hosted by less developed nations and must be scaled back, says senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official Jacques Rogge.

The owner of the Dallas Cowboys has said he wants a new 100,000 stadium ? twice the size of their current home.

More than a million spectators are expected to watch the men's and women's soccer events at the Sydney Olympics Games, tournament director Peter Hugg has said.

Forbes magazine has named The Washington Redskins as the NFL's most valuable franchise.

English Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined the fight to try and save soccer?s transfer system ? facing collapse after pressure from the European Union.