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The BBC licked its wounds on Thursday after losing television rights to England's top-flight soccer but the government said it would not cough up more money for the public broadcaster.
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The Scottish Premier League and BBC Scotland have signed a deal to allow supporters worldwide to hear live internet broadcasts of every league game next season.
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Sydney's Olympic organisers (SOCOG) have rejected a plan to discount unsold tickets to this year's Games, angering Australian community and welfare groups.
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Rights to screen English Premier League football for the next three years have fetched #1.6 billion ( $2.4 billion) according to sources closes to the bidding process. The breakdown will be announced at a press conference in London at 6.30pm ( London) today.
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The head of Britain's richest soccer club Manchester United Plc is likely to step down this year in a move that will mark the end of four decades of family control, the Financial Times has reported.
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UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has won the rights to broadcast exclusive coverage of the England cricket tour to the West Indies in 2004.
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is expected to land the main prize in the scramble to televise England's Premier League football.
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NatWest will inject #450,000 into grass roots cricket projects over the next three years as part of it's new agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to sponsor the NatWest Series.
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Two former senior British police officers were accused in court of criminal negligence on Tuesday over the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster 11 years ago.
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Tele-Cine, the London-based TV post production and broadcast facility, has signed a five-year downlink contract with Fox Sports International.
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Germany's top television channel, RTL has bought the coveted free-to-air rights to Champions League soccer from September for the next three seasons.
Business

Shares in British Sky Broadcasting have dipped after England?s Premier League said it would hold at least one more round of bids for its TV rights before unveiling the winners this week.

The King commission into match-fixing faces a crucial week in which it will hear the testimony of former South African captain Hansie Cronje, the man at the centre of the storm.

U.S.-owned supermarket chain Asda has been criticised for selling England replica football T-shirts made in Turkey.
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Asiacontent.com, SportsLine.com, and Sports.com have combined forces to bring premium internet and wireless sports results, news and e-commerce services to Asian audiences.

South Africa's Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour will meet Moroccan World Cup bid officials in Rabat to discuss the possibility of Morocco withdrawing from the 2006 race.
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South Africa's World Cup bid chief said he was prepared to do a deal with rivals Brazil in order to secure South American backing in the vote to decide who hosts the 2006 tournament.
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The European Commission has approved Euro 2000's ticket sales policy, just two days before the tournament kicks off in Brussels.