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AutoNation, the automotive retailer with $18 billion in annual revenues, has become an official first-time sponsor of the National Football League and Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta on January 30, 2000.

The offer for Australian citizens to order tickets for the Sydney Olympics closes tonight.

South American Football Confederation president Nicolas Leoz has suggested the 2002 World Cup should be taken away from Asia, following the walkout by the Asian delegation at the FIFA Congress in Los Angeles.

London's Independent newspaper reports a sharp jump in the value of shares in Loftus Road, the owner of QPR soccer club and Wasps, Rugby Union club, after confirmation of take-over talks.

The Pepsi-Cola Company will be an official beverage sponsor of the All-American Soccer Stars Victory (AASS) Tour.

An Olympic Games corruption-buster will be recruited to supervise Olympic delegates and bid cities in the wake of this year's vote-buying scandal, according to Australian newspaper reports.

Sydney's scandal-weary Olympics organisers had some good news this weekend - Australians are buying tickets to see the 2000 Games.

A host of major international sporting events are being wooed by bosses of Australia's Dockland's Colonial Stadium.

The Fox network has signed a major multi-million dollar deal to begin broadcasting Dominican Republic baseball games.

The lawyer of the ex-hockey star bidding to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins says a deal is imminent.

German TV channel TM3, which pulled off the coup of the year in German sports broadcasting by buying the rights to Champions League soccer, aims to triple its market share in the long term, according to a German magazine report.

A decision on who should run Melbourne, Australia's 2006 Commonwealth Games, is set to be made next week.

A landmark London court ruling expected on Wednesday is set to break pay television giant British Sky Broadcasting's (BSkyB) stranglehold on coverage of English Premier League soccer, according to London's the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

A variety of investment groups have submitted bids to acquire the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and the city's future sports arena from Ascent Entertainment Group Inc.

Australia's International Olympic Committee (IOC) board member Kevan Gosper says he would be interested in the top job when Juan Antonio Samaranch stands down as president in 2001.

Racing Champions, the producer and marketer of collectibles and best known for its extensive lines of officially licensed NASCAR racing replicas, Press Pass trading cards, NASCAR souvenirs and apparel, has received the Licensee of the Year (Hard Goods) award from The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA).