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A UK betting shop chain, Firststake, is planning a stock market flotation in order to raise funds for a UK-based internet betting venture, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

Organisers of the 2000 Tour de France have unveiled plans to stage an entire leg within Paris ? the first time it would take place in the event?s history.
Business

The appeal by Ferrari against disqualification from last Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, potentially decisive for the destiny of this season's Formula One world title, has opened.
Business

British Prime Minister Tony Blair threw open his Downing Street doors to a delegation from world soccer's governing body FIFA yesterday, hoping to convince them to back England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.

The first Presidents Cup competition of the new millennium will be longer and later in the year.
Business

SportsLine USA, the leading global Internet sports media company and publisher of CBS SportsLine, has announced record revenue and site traffic for the third quarter ended September 30, 1999.
Stadia

Mammoth Sports Group, the US golf e-tail company, has completed a $6million private offering of its common stock.
Business

Walter Smith, manager of English Premier League soccer club Everton has accused the financially-troubled club of "gross mismanagement" at its annual general meeting.
Business

Qantas Airways Ltd has been named as one of the leading brands in a survey of Sydney Olympic sponsors - even though the official airline sponsor of the 2000 Olympic Games is actually its main domestic rival.

The Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has elected FIFA member Tony Kodjo Williams as its new chairman, the NFA has confirmed.
Business

Quokka Sports has announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 1999 - the first quarterly results since Quokka completed its initial public offering of 5.0 million shares on August 2nd 1999.
Business

Continuing the migration of figures from sports marketing to the online sports sector, Ignite Sports Media LLC has hired Gordon Kane, formerly director of marketing and brand development for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and vice president of the USOC's Olympic Properties of the United States, as vice president of advertising and marketing.
Business

The European Commission has said it has begun formal proceedings, a lengthy legal process, against FIFA for the soccer governing body's anti-competitive rules on professional players' agents.
Media

A six-man delegation from soccer's world governing body FIFA rounded off a five-day visit to Germany full of praise for the country's bid to host the 2006 World Cup.

Market conditions will set the level for transfer fees and players' salaries, not FIFA, Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's world governing body, has said.
Business

The joint chief executive of advertising giants Saatchi & Saatchi ? Adam Crozier - has been named the new chief executive of the English Football Association.
Business

Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmanex, will be official sponsors of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City and America's Olympic team through 2004.
Business

Searching for new customers and talented employees beyond major U.S. Internet centres, Web portal Go2Net Inc. has launched a marketing campaign at major college football stadiums.

Italian second division soccer club Sampdoria has said they would launch a four-year bond with interest rates tied to the team's results.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said the disqualification of Ferrari from Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix was "nonsense" and Eddie Irvine should be reinstated as championship leader.