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New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has taken a take in hot-rod racing by investing between $1million and $2million in an NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series team.

The season-ending championships of the WTA Tour, a fixture in New York for 29 years, will be moved to Munich, Germany, beginning next year.

The NFL Washington Redskins are hoping to raise an additional $9 million in annual gate receipts from the installation of the addition 4,000 extra seats to FedEx Field.

A below-standard Olympic soccer pitch is being returfed and will be ready in time, removing concerns a new venue would have to found, organisers have said.

Wayne Huizenga has received numerous offers to buy the Miami Dolphins outright, but no offers to buy the minority stake he has put up for sale, according to US media reports.

Heavyweight Mike Tyson will return to the United States after two fights this year in Britain to face Poland's Andrew Golota on October 20, the promoters have confirmed.

Miami-based sports rights and production network, Sportsmania, has acquired exclusive rights for a number of key French soccer games.

Twice jilted by major league baseball, an economically rejuvenated Washington city hopes that the end of this season will bring one of America's best-loved sports back to the capital. For the full story see the `FEATURES? section of SportBusiness.com.

MSNBCSports.com, the internet home of NBC Sports and official news source for NBCOlympics.com, has unveiled its online coverage of the games in Sydney at olympics.msnbc.com.

The head of Sydney's Olympic Village has said a lone attacker rather than an organised terrorist group posed the biggest security threat to next month's Games.

Olympic organisers were more confident on Wednesday of being able to prepare a soccer pitch playing surface at Canberra in time for next month's Games, averting the need to move matches away from the federal capital.

Several MLS soccer teams are planning new stadium builds following the success of The Columbus Crew stadium ? with Los Angeles Galaxy involved in the most ambitious project.

Boxing's Oscar De La Hoya, upset over what he said were suggestions by promoter Bob Arum that he retire from the sport, sued Arum in federal court on Tuesday to end their eight-year relationship.

US sports franchise owners ands operators, Palace Sports and Entertainment, have signed a multi-year ticketing and new technology agreement with Ticketmaster.

Olympic organisers could be forced to switch soccer games away from Canberra because of worries that its new playing surface would not be ready.

Huge time-zone differences and an explosion in computer use will make Sydney's Olympics the biggest event yet on the Internet with officials predicting a staggering 6.5 billion hits for the official Games site alone.