Events

The biggest event on the domestic golf tour, the Indian PGA Championship, has now become a specially sanctioned event of the Asian PGA tour, officials said on Tuesday.

Dutch soccer team Feyenoord Rotterdam is looking at ways of offering virtual advertising to its sponsors. The move comes amid a wave of Asian interest in the sport since the signing of Japanese star Shinji Ono from Urawa.

US investment group Liberty Media has moved to calm fears that its buy-out of six German cable television companies from Deutsche Telekom had stalled by announcing that a deal has been signed worth around $4.95 billion (?5.5bn).

Sportech PLC, the holding company for Littlewoods Leisure, the pools betting company it acquired in September 2000, has reported that its telephone and online sports betting customer base grew to over 208,000 registered customers in the six months to June 30.

BAA Scottish Airports, owners and operators of Scotland's principal airports at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, is to sponsor the WPGA International Matchplay golf tournament as part of Scotland's Ryder Cup bid.

Goodwill Games chief executive Campbell Rose conceded that the event?s swimming format had failed.

A late change of heart by track and field officials means athletes at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane will be subject to the new drug testing regime for the in-demand endurance enhancer EPO.

The BBC will broadcast highlights of CART?s first race on UK soil later this month.

Greek Cypriot sportsmen are fuming at the decision of their Greek cousins to stage a joint-bid with arch-rivals Turkey to host the Euro 2008 tournament.

While the UK awaits the government review of the beleaguered Wembley Stadium, Birmingham City Council has unveiled a #324million ($470m/?517m) bid to take over as the official home of the national football stadium.

The Women?s United Soccer Association (WUSA), which has just completed its league?s inaugural season, is to move its headquarters to Atlanta to further utilise the corporate infrastructure of one of its investors, Cox Enterprises.

Unilever is extending its sports sponsorship involvement by signed a naming rights deal with the Sydney Marathon.
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The Canadian Football League (CFL) has signed a deal with Houston-based broadcast firm USFR Media Group to show match coverage throughout the US on the America One Television Network.

Goodwill Games organisers are banking on last-minute door sales to clear about 129,000 remaining tickets, including 69,000 for next week's athletics sessions.

English soccer?s Premier League has begun an investigation into claims that UK-based radio network Capital breached soccer broadcast rights.

Australian and South African rugby union will benefit from extra broadcasting revenue if a plan for the two countries? teams to clash offshore in Asia goes ahead.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that it has failed to secure a title sponsor for its domestic cup competitions for the new season which starts on Sunday.
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KirchMedia has reached agreement with a group of Korean broadcasters for the domestic broadcasting rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cups in a deal believed to be in the region of $55-60million (?60.63-66.14m).