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Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) chief executive, Andrew Craig, has confirmed that the CART racing series is coming to Europe.

Manchester United could be about to hit the big screen after it was revealed movie star Mel Gibson?s film company Icon Productions is to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the club.

A South African restaurant chain has said it was ending a multi-million rand advertising contract with disgraced cricket captain Hansie Cronje.

The head of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has appealed to world football's governing body to let Africa host the 2006 World Cup.

Ten-times Georgian champions Dynamo Tbilisi could be expelled from the top flight if they do not pay a transfer fee to second division Mretebi Tbilisi for selling Georgi Kinkladze to Manchester City in 1995.

The rebuilding of Wembley Stadium, centrepiece of England's 2006 World Cup bid, may be delayed a year because its owners and the local council cannot agree on who should pay for improved transport links.

A joint FIFA/UEFA delegation will visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday 12 April for discussions related to the role, status and structure of sport within the legal framework of the European Union.

A new internet site catering for event organisers and sponsors, is being launched by S-Comm.

Frank Maloney, the manager of Lennox Lewis, is to promote the first live pictorial coverage of a boxing fight on the internet, with a fly-weight match in London this Thursday on fighnight.com.

English club rugby looked set to be divided again following proposals for a new league system unveiled by the Rugby Football Union (RFU).

Four English county cricket clubs are to launch a new Inter-City flood-lit tournament featuring Surrey, Warwickshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, according The Independent on Sunday newspaper.

On the day that News Corps and Vivendi have proposed a joint shareholding of their digital businesses, European media big-hitters Bertelsmann, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Pearson (PTV) have agreed to merge CLT-UFA, Europe's leading commercial television and radio broadcaster, with Pearson Television, the independent television production company.

Manchester United?s club television channel ? MUTV ? has been launched in Scandinavia, giving fans in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland the ability to subscribe to the digital broadcast.

Hong Kong-based giant screen specialists Lighthouse Technologies has acquired Pixelite from Avesco plc, creating the world's most broadly-based giant screen sales and installation operation with offices across the globe.

A study on trends in English football by the German research company, Sport + Markt, has revealed 19.5m

England and France have emerged as the front runners in the bid to hosts the Rugby World Cup in 2007.