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Dick Schultz, who resigned from the NCAA under pressure six years ago, is under fire at the US Olympic Committee and could be replaced as executive director, perhaps before the Sydney Olympics next year, USA Today reports.
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The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.
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Total Sports, a provider of online coverage of college sports, has added
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Ford has decided to promote the Jaguar brand as it prepares for its return to Formula One motor racing.
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Lucozade Sport, has signed as the Official Sports Drink Supplier to the 1999 London Triathlon, which takes place on 19th September at the Royal Albert Docks, London.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee's decision making group has recommended revamping the rapidly growing organisation to operate like a corporation and earn $20 million a month.
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The Australian Football League (AFL) has agreed a five-year deal for vision, audio and text rights for AFL content across online and wireless technologies with Telstra.
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Sportsworld Media Group, the UK-based sports marketing and television production company, has been appointed to market golf?s forthcoming Seve Trophy in Ireland between April 19 and 21, 2002.
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UK-based Screenco have created a 21 metre wide LED banner at the 68,000-capacity stadium of German Bundesliga team FC Kaiserslautern using 21 Lighthouse LVP20 20mm pixel pitch modules.
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World Cup Skateboarding (WCS), the world skateboarding sanctioning body and tour organiser, has appointed action-sport marketing agency IMS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sportsworld Media Group plc to manage its commercial interests globally.
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The International Badminton Federation (IBF) has appointed Octagon CSI as its international television rights partner effective from January 2002.
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The Indy Racing League (IRL) has extended its deals with ESPN and ABC Sports with new three-year contracts.
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CART has signed a deal with a local promoter to stage a round of its FedEx Championship Series in Mexico City.
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Sears Point Raceway, the San Francisco market motorsports facility owned by Speedway Motorsports, has reported an upswing in corporate business during the 2001 season.
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Athletics action at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane has failed to live up to the ratings success of swimming, ranking only as the sixteenth most watched programme on local television on Tuesday night.
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Badminton's prestigious World Grand Prix finals are to be scrapped in their present format.
Business

Shareholders in Italian soccer club Juventus have approved the report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2001 and have given the go-ahead for the company to proceed with a listing on the Italian Stock Exchange.
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US broadcast network UPN rescheduled its September 6 edition of `WWF Smackdown? so as not to pull viewers away from the MTV Video Music Awards to air that night.