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The future of Formula One's Grand Prix weekends will be discussed at a meeting of team chiefs and the sport's leading powerbrokers today.

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.

Shirt sponsorship deals in the top five European leagues have risen in cost by 35% over the past 12 months, according to a new report.

Athletes taking part in this summer?s Olympic Games in Sydney are all to have access to a free legal service.

The New England Patriots have sold the naming rights to their new stadium to internet conglomorate CMGI in exchange for at least $114 million over 15 years. The stadium will be called CMGI Field.

Sports and Outdoor Media International has restructured its senior staff at its international head office in London.

The Ladies European Tour has named a new sponsor for the #100,000 Chart Hills Classic at Chart Hills Golf Club in Kent, England

Holders Real Madrid will find out their first opponents in the 2000/2001 Champions League on

Organisers of the Summer Olympics have played down concerns the playing surfaces for the soccer tournament would not be ready in time for the Games next month.

Computer experts will work around the clock during the Sydney Olympics to keep out cyber hackers who might try to vandalise Games websites, even changing official results and the names of medal winners.

The ISMM Group (International Sports Media & Marketing) headquarters is on the move after 18 years in Lucerne.

Research and evaluation specialist S-Comm is expanding its support office in Sweden with three new staff members.

Mike Tyson has been fined a record 125,000 pounds ($185,700) by the British Boxing Board of Control but he can still fight in Britain.

Escalating steel prices could create havoc with the construction budget of two major new stadium builds in the US.

OPTA, the UK-based football statistics service, has appointed Mark Pearman, formerly Sky Sports executive producer as its new general manager.

Australia's world champion rugby team will stage a test match in Perth for each of the next five years under an agreement between the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and the Western Australian government.