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An ex-Scotland Yard detective with the International Cricket Council anti-corruption unit has visited major Indian test stadiums as part of a worldwide inspection of venues following the match-fixing scandal.

The English Football Association (FA) announced on Friday that its plans to redevelop Wembley stadium were going back to the drawing board.

The English Football Association (FA) has conducted an emergency meeting today to discuss the troubled Wembley rebuilding project.

The British Internet Publishers Alliance (BIPA) has named Rob Hersov, CEO and founder of Sportal, as the organisations? new Chairman.

The European Triathlon Union (ETU) has announced it is to hold an extraordinary congress immediately to discuss the threatened split from the organisation by eight member nations.

The LPGA Tour on Thursday on announced that its 2001 schedule would include four new events and feature its largest total purse ever.

Manchester United will play three games on a summer tour of Asia next year to consolidate their popularity there.

Eight countries - including France, Spain and Britain - are forming a breakaway European governing body for triathlon, the sport which made its Olympic debut at the Sydney Games.

World soccer chiefs, keen to a find a solution to the recent controversy over transfers, have urged European Union leaders meeting in Nice on Thursday to back plans to give sport a special status.

Paris will stage the best Olympics ever if it wins the right to hold them in 2008, the bid organisers said in an official statement.

Just over 5 million CSS Stellar shares have been placed on the Alternative Investment Market at an issue price of 180p-a-share.

Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon on Tuesday urged European officials not to drag their feet over new rules governing player transfers because uncertainty threatened to damage the game.

England?s Rugby Football Union has announced the appointment of Chris Spice as its performance director.

Websites have already established themselves as the fundamental means of communication for sports teams beyond their national boundaries, disintermediating the need for broadcasters, according to evidence presented by speakers at the IOC New Media Conference in Lausanne.

Manchester United has been crowned the richest soccer club in the world for a third consecutive year.

America's Cup holders, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, accepted the Swiss challenge for yachting's biggest prize on Monday after a month of legal wrangling.