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English Premier League soccer club Leeds United are to go ahead with plans to build a new, multi-million pound stadium after shareholders and season-ticket holders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the scheme.
Business

The Indian cricket team have secured a record sponsorship contract for the next three years. The deal with the Sahara Group - which has interests in airlines and media - will guarantee the Indian cricket board 690m ($14.7m) to 720m ($15.3m) rupees.
Business

International sports management firm IMG is set to bid for the marketing rights to India's fast-growing professional golf circuit which recently lost its main patron after a federal move to ban tobacco sponsorship in sport.
Media

Lawrence Wong, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, has called for betting duty to be scrapped in what he regards would be the “ultimate solution” to the severe competition coming from on-line gambling sites.
Events

Sport featured strongly with US television audiences last month, making up 16 of the top 20 shows broadcast on US cable channels in May.
Business

Australia will reduce their National Soccer League (NSL) from 16 clubs to 12 next season, Soccer Australia (SA) announced on Monday.
Business

Betting duty could come back to the UK, just three months after the chancellor Gordon Brown said he would get rid of the nine per cent tax on gamblers to encourage bookmakers to close their tax-free betting operations overseas.
Events

Gaming Insight, the parent company of Gobarkingmad, the live 24-hour greyhound racing digital television channel where punters can see a race every five to eight minutes, has signed a five-year deal with betting company Victor Chandler to provide 140,000 Chandler account holders with a direct link to www.gobarkingmad.com.

Juan Antonio Samaranch today crushed any hope of Israel staging an Olympic Games "as long as there is war".
Business

Memphis authorities have reached tentative agreement with the owners of the Vancouver Grizzles on conditions that would allow the pro basketball team to use a new arena there.
Business

Kate Hoey, the UK’s sports minister, has denied reports that the department of culture, media and sport (DCMS) is to be broken up after Britain’s general election on Thursday.
Business

The 26-year-old Louisiana Superdome may be re-named after the state proposed negotiating a naming-rights agreement with a yet-to-be-determined entity.
Business

Digital Sport, the international sports and media company which owns pan-European soccer news website onefootball.com, has bought sports agency Icon Management Solutions, in a cash and shares deal. The acquisition is part of Digital’s move to become a broad-based sports management and media group.
Business

Vivendi Universal is considering selling its 22.74 per cent stake in BSkyB on the stock market, in a move that would seem certain to create a rift with Rupert Murdoch whose News Corporation holds a controlling 37.5 per cent shareholding in the UK satellite platform.
Business

ITV, the UK terrestrial broadcasting channel, has denied a decision has been made on who will become the £18m ($25m) sponsor of ITV’s Premier League football coverage next season.

Hundreds of football hooligans have been banned from leaving Britain for tomorrow's World Cup qualifying clash against Greece, the Home Office said.
Business

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' quest for a new stadium has produced the first volley in a potential bidding war among the suburbs.
Business

Australian soccer teams the Brisbane Strikers and Canberra Cosmos have vowed to take legal action over their axing from the National Soccer League.
Business

Formula One boss Frank Williams called for a review of contracts for leading technical personnel on Monday following the tug-of-war between McLaren and Jaguar over the services of designer Adrian Newey.
Business

India's professional golf tour has no plans to hand the commercial rights for the coming season to a fresh bidder, the Indian Professional Golfers' Association (PGAI) said on Monday.