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Germany's Kirch Group and public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a television rights agreement for the next two World Cups after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder asked them to work out a deal.

The XFL may be accused of attracting poor primetime ratings on NBC, but the head of Fox Sports has said that the football league's innovations such as on-field cameras and microphones could have ``major ramifications'' for TV coverage of all other sports.

Viewpoint Technologies Ltd. has been appointed the ?Official Supplier of Games Enabling Systems for the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane?.

SFX executive Jeff Lewis has been appointed chairman of the SFX Motor Sports Group.

The AFL is on the verge of signing a lucrative new deal with Carlton and United Breweries in a naming rights sponsorship valued at A$35 million (US$18.5m) over five years.

The e-commerce streaming company, e-Media, Inc, has teamed up with VideoSport.com to deliver live, pay-per-view (PPV) webcasts of more than 150 professional European soccer matches over the next two years to fans worldwide.

Athens Olympics organisers said they were considering building a permanent 14,000-seat stadium at the site of the Athens airport to stage the qualifying rounds of the Olympic basketball tournament.

The Super 12 competition could be expanded to 16 teams and the playing seasons of South Africa, New Zealand and Australia could be synchronised, according to reports from South Africa.

UK commercial radio station TalkSPORT has teamed up with Rivals.net - the network of more than 300 independent sports websites - to partner its "The Big Ticket" promotion next month.

130 million viewers will witness the debut of a new sport broadcast technology during the 2001 Super Bowl.

The new Wembley stadium will not be ready in time to host the 2005 world athletics championships, the chairman of the redevelopment company Rodney Walker said on Thursday.

Accra's Sports Stadium has been banned from hosting next month's African Super Cup and the match switched to nearby Kumasi in Ghana, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced in Cairo.

Egyptian club Zamalek are asking the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a switch in the venue of this year's African Super Cup from Ghana because of concerns about safety.

Digital satellite television service provider DirecTV Inc. said on Tuesday it bought the Latin American broadcast rights to the World Cup soccer competition in 2002 and 2006 in a deal valued at $400 million.

September's Sydney Olympics should be a financial success after being praised worldwide as the greatest Games in history, Olympic leaders said on Tuesday.

The Rugby Football Union has launched the first stage of its plan to stop the decline in the adult game, as detailed in its Blackman Report.