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Business

Adam Crozier, boss of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, is set to become the English FA?s new chief executive, according to press reports.
Events

New World Publishing Inc. has unveiled SonicSport.com an Internet portal that will have live streaming video from major sporting events, fantasy sports, betting odds, sports scores and stock quotes.
Stadia

Worldwide Entertainment & Sports Corp. has announced that Charles Koppelman has been named chairman of the board of directors of its Internet subsidiary, Sportcut.com Inc.
Business

Pacific Bell will serve as title sponsor for a free music, entertainment and sports extravaganza this weekend to commemorate the opening of the Staples Centre.
Business

ESPN International has acquired the rights to televise Italian Serie A soccer action in Australia, New Zealand and the territories of Oceania.
Business

Everton soccer club owner Peter Johnson was expected to confirm this week that he had accepted a #25million ($42-million) bid for his 68 per cent shareholding in the English Premier League club from a consortium led by two computer game entrepreneurs, British newspapers said at the weekend.
Stadia

The new, re-built Wembley Stadium could have its capacity boosted from 90,000 to 101,000 after a desire to ensure the new venue will be up to standard for any possible Olympic bids.
Media

Fast Track has won a major contact outside its core athletics business as it looks to expand its consultancy operation into other sports.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Fox Filmed Entertainment has named Steven Bersch, 43, president of Fox Interactive, the studio's entertainment and sports computer and video game software unit.
Business

Delta will launch its sponsorship as the official airline of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games by sending its newest Boeing 757 aircraft in special Olympic-theme design on a tour of eight US cities.
Business

Jim Julow, vice president, Dodge Division has confirmed the car brand's return to NASCAR's Winston Cup circuit.
Business

Australia's oldest surviving rugby league team has axed from next year's National Rugby League competition, the latest victim in a major shake-up of Australia's most popular football code.
Stadia

Embarrassed Irish rugby officials were forced to apologise to dozens of World Cup supporters who arrived at Thursday's match between Australia and United States to learn that their seats did not exist.
Media

British broadcaster Sky has steadfastly refused to let television viewers watch, for free, the first round in the Battle of Britain play-off between England and Scotland for a place in Euro 2000.
Media

Quokka Sports and British Telecommunications (BT) have teamed up to provide live Web site coverage of "the world's toughest yacht race", the BT Global Challenge 2000-01.
Business

Hambrecht & Quist , a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, has predicted that "e-Sports" revenues will exceed $4 billion or 7 per cent of total retail sales by 2004.

Bookmakers William Hill have strongly criticised some English Premier League clubs for playing their reserve teams in this week?s League Cup.
Business

Soccer legends Pele and Johan Cruyff share an apocalyptic vision that commercial exploitation may destroy professional football as we know it.
Business

Former IMG joint head of football, Paul Smith, has joined Sportal, the sport media organisation, to head SportalAsia.
Business

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co is ending its Winston cigarette brand sponsorship of a NASCAR racing series that allows teenage drivers to compete because it could violate the tobacco settlement with the states.