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Sydney Olympic organisers have conjured up an extra half-million tickets to the 2000 Games to defuse a public outcry over a ticketing policy that has left the Australian public scrambling for seats.
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NBC Quokka Ventures, has announced that Randy Falco, the president of NBC Television Network and chief operating officer of NBC's Olympic broadcast group, has joined its board of directors.
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The World Cup of Golf will become the fourth World Golf Championship next year with a change in format, it has been announced.
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Soccer's international governing body FIFA has unveiled a trio of computer-animated fantasy mascots for the next World Cup in what it said was a move to reflect the high-tech reputation of co-hosts Korea and Japan.
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EMC Corporation, a global provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, has signed with the International Federation of PGA Tours to become the title sponsor of golf's World Cup and an umbrella sponsor of the World Golf Championships.
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Washington Redskins officials have rejected proposals to build a roof over Fedex Field on cost grounds, according to the Washington Post. "It was one of the things that was looked at while looking at ways to improve things at the stadium [but] it's not going to happen," spokesman Karl Swanson said. Snyder was considering making a bid to host the Super Bowl in 2012 in conjunction with the Baltimore-Washington region's bid to host the summer Olympic Games that year, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
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Speedway Motorsports (SMI) and Nationwide Insurance have signed a three-year comprehensive marketing agreement themed on race and fan safety.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has repeated that he felt the the World Cup finals in 2006 should go to Africa.
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Fox Sports World Espanol has acquired the exclusive US broadcast rights to the 2000 Colombian soccer league season, including all playoff match-ups.
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The organising committee for the Sydney 200 Olympic Games is to consider plans to ensure that all available seats at venues are full during events.
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The Dutch government has said on Wednesday it would allow extra flights to land at Schiphol airport for the European Cup Final to be held in Amsterdam next week.
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) have signed an agreement with Israeli broadcaster JCS (Jersulem Capital Sports), to broadcast more than 70 NBA games and 20 WNBA games over the next two seasons.
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Sukom Ninety Eight Bhd, the organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, have admitted their merchandising programme for the Games had failed and they are unlikely to reap the projected income from it, the New Straits Times has reported.
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Legendary coach Don Shula has joined the team bidding for the reactivated Cleveland browns franchise.
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Sydney Olympic organisers are banking on selling more Olympic tickets - and at higher prices - to help offset a $150 million increase in the cost of staging the 2000 Games.
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Organisers of the Sydney Olympic Games have created their own broadcast organisation, The Sydney Olympic Broadcast Organisation (SOBO).
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SportsLine USA, publishers of CBS.SportsLine.com, is reporting radicaly increasedWeb traffic for the second quarter of 1998 on all its sites on The Internet.
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Howie Long has signed a new five-year contract with Fox Sports, ensuring that "Fox NFL Sunday." will keep the same lineup.