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Media

Italian Serie A soccer club AS Roma, which aims to float on the stock market this month, is in talks on a commercial alliance with Italian and foreign telecoms groups, director general Fabrizio Lucchesi has said.
Media

Animal rights supporters have called on media and sponsors to boycott the Grand National tomorrow ? the UK?s biggest horse racing event.
Stadia

The UK?s Crown Prosecution Service has recommended that an investigation of alleged ticket fraud in Wales before and during last year?s Rugby World Cup be taken over by the South Wales Police Fraud squad.
Business

The Scotland rugby union team has renewed its sponsorship deal with whisky firm The Famous Grouse.

England's leading test cricketers have finally reached agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board over their contracts.

England?s top 12 cricketers will decide today whether to accept the six-month contract terms they and the ECB have negotiated over the last month.

Former England captain Alec Stewart has called for English cricket authorities to impose stricter controls on overseas players in the county game.

Sydney Olympics organisers have said hundreds of thousands of printed tickets were too big to fit into turnstiles.

Purple Interactive, the company behind the unofficial formuala1.com web-site, is to a launch Eurosoccer.com, a major new site for fans of European soccer.
Events

Smaller Premier League clubs were ? railroaded? into signing some aspects of yesterday?s broadcast tender agreement, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper.

English Premier League side Leeds United has become the first football club in England to buy a stake in a rival team on Tuesday.
Events

The battle for one of the world's hottest broadcast deals kicked off on Monday when England's top 20 soccer clubs set terms for the sale of their lucrative Premier League screening rights.
Media

Euro 2000 organisers have freed up well over 50,000 tickets for this summer's championships and plan to sell them from Thursday.
Events

South Africa has again disputed the campaigning tactics of World Cup 2006 bidding rivals, England.

London looks set to get its first racecourse since Alexandra Park in the north of the city closed 30 years ago.
Events

The 20 chairmen of the English Premier League soccer clubs are meeting today to start discussing the terms for the League?s lucrative new broadcast deal.
Business

The central England city of Birmingham has been awarded the 2003 world indoor athletics championships beating off the opposition of Budapest.
Media

Glasgow Rangers have disclosed plans to float the business on the stock exchange and that talks are underway with a number of potential media investors.