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NBCOlympics.com, the joint venture formed by NBC Olympics,Inc. and Quokka Sports, Inc. has announced the members of its management team.
Business

CBS and Disney's ABC-ESPN, losers in the recent NASCAR deal, are vying to tie-up the rights to NCAA men's basketball, as formal presentations to the NCAA began this week.
Business

The English Premier League is to make a ruling over whether British Sky Broadcasting can keep a stake of more than 10 percent in champions Manchester United while also holding shares in Premiership rival Leeds United ? the latest stage in a long-running saga over media company ownership.

Newly promoted Serie A side Torino has "categorically denied" it was in talks with Scottish Premier League leaders Rangers over a #15 million ($24.33 million) takeover of the Italian club.
Events

Irish state broadcaster RTE has said it had failed to resolve a row with a Turkish television company over the rights to broadcast Wednesday's Euro 2000 play-off between Ireland and Turkey in Bursar.
Business

The BBC has signed a new television deal with the Rugby Football League to buy the rights for rugby league's Challenge Cup. The deal will be worth #8.7m over the next five years.
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Nike president and chief operating officer Thomas E. Clarke has appointed Ellen Turner, formerly the chief marketing officer (CMO) at Kinko's, as vice president, CMO at Nike.
Business

A $461 million deal to sell the Colorado Avalanche hockey team, the Denver Nuggets basketball team and a sports arena to Colorado billionaire Donald Sturm has fallen through, a spokesman for the owners has said.
Business

The president of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee, central banker Panayotis Thomopoulos, said that Greece's economic growth could rise by an extra seven percent between 2001 and 2005 because of the Games.
Business

Soccer player Davor Suker,of English Premier League club Arsenal, can hold shares in a rival club providing the stake does not amount to more than 10 percent, the English Football Association (F.A.) has said.
Media

Total Sports, the online sports new media company that focuses on providing real-time, event-centred sports coverage, has completed the offering of approximately 2,100,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock to certain institutional investors.
Events

Plans for the new #475million ($770 million) national stadium at Wembley in London has come under more fire after a hostile reception by leading sports officials.
Business

Sports ministers from 24 nations have called for a two-year ban across all sports for first-time doping offences and for year-round random drug testing.
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Rivals also claimed the highest aggregate time spent per user at 32.2 minutes, according to Nielsen/NetRatings
Business

The Detroit Lions broke ground on a new $300 million stadium in downtown Detroit this week and announced it will be named Ford Field after the owners of the professional football team and the auto company.
Media

Wembley's twin towers are to be replaced by a spectacular arch when the famous stadium is rebuilt, its developers have revealed.

US anti-drugs campaigner Barry McCaffrey has said he would meet Olympics chief Juan Antonio Samaranch but made plain his goal was still to curb the IOC's influence over a new anti-doping agency.
Business

Officials of Gateshead Thunder, the UK rugby league franchise, have confirmed that the team's playing, coaching and administrative staff are to relocate to Hull as part of the merger agreement with Hull Sharks.

The US government is seeking to freeze two bank accounts of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), whose president Bob Lee pleaded not guilty this week to charges of taking bribes to fix rankings.
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ISL and the city of Charleroi have reached an agreement, whereby Charleroi becomes the first of the Euro 2000 host cities to officially join the overall marketing programme for Euro 2000.