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UK satellite broadcasters BSkyB have been given the green light to carry on buying stakes in English Premier League clubs after League bosses said there was no problem in what it was doing.
Events

The BBC has held preliminary talks with Don King with the aim of securing the television rights to the Evander Holyfield/ Lennox Lewis fight on November 13.
Media

The Walt Disney Company is to close its trio of ESPN Stores, thereby ending company's two-year-old venture into sports retailing.
Media

Glasgow Rangers and Celtic should be booted out of the Scottish soccer Premier League because they are too strong - according to Dundee manager Jocky Stott.
Business

EA Sports, the leading interactive entertainment software company, has joined forces with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority ( LVCVA) as the co- title sponsor of Las Vegas Bowl VIII, college football's first post-season bowl game of 1999. The sponsorship agreement will become effective immediately and run through December 31, 2000.
Business

Quokka Sports has appointed three new regional sales directors with the aim of establishing a coast-to-coast force in the United States and complementing the company's global outreach.
Events

Chelsea Village, owner of English Premier League soccer club Chelsea, has appointed Peter Bewsey - formerly of recruitment firm the Corporate Services Group - as its new chief executive.
Business

US city Houston has reached a $160 million deal to build a new downtown basketball and hockey stadium.
Business

The UK government has rejected a report calling for greater restrictions on the sponsorship of sport by alcohol companies, fearing that it could cause financial problems for teams and events and prove unpopular with the fans.
Business

A revolution in British gambling is causing the biggest shake-up of the UK's six-billion-pound betting industry since legions of backstreet bookmakers were put out of business when betting shops were legalised in 1961.

Speculation is growing that former Madison Square Garden president Bob Gutkowski plans to buy the New York Islanders after reports in the US press.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will hold talks with the head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) late next month over a threatened Asian boycott of the 2002 World Cup.
Business

Illegal gambling is siphoning an alarming amount of cash from Hong Kong horse racing, weakening the Jockey Club's grip on the sport, the club's chief executive has warned.

German soccer champions Bayern Munich have joined the growing band of leading clubs whose web site is to be part of Pangolin?s Sportal Network.
Business

The long awaited decision on when a rematch between boxing giants Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis will take place has finally been confirmed.

The IOC should simplify its financial records to ensure the public can understand its sources of income and expenditure, recommends a reform panel set up by the IOC.
Business

Reports suggest the US Olympic Committee could have a new boss as early as January, after the organisation announced it was restructuring is leadership.
Stadia

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra headlined the re-dedication of Louis Armstrong Stadium at the U.S. Open Monday evening.
Business

The ATP Tour laying off 15 staff members and cutting $7million (B
Media

A spokesperson for the UK government's Department of Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that it has ordered Patrick Carter to produce a second report on the options for a national stadium.