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Alan Sugar's 10-year reign as the owner of Tottenham Hotspur ended on Wednesday when media group ENIC completed its purchase of his 26.9 percent holding, worth around 22 million pounds ($31.84 million).

Liverpool?s UEFA Cup success is winning the BBC some strong viewing figures but it is also seeing them depart with large sums of money.

Cable company NTL is to become title sponsor of Ref!Link, the device that allows international rugby fans in the stadium to hear a live link of what the referee is saying during a match.

Eurosport is renegotiating its key rights agreements with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) under the channel's new owner, French broadcaster TF1.

Virtual advertising used for first-down line sponsors FedEx and Kodak during the International broadcast of Super Bowl XXXV did not ?realise the benefits of the technology?s potential?, according to a new report.

Sarajevo, which staged the 1984 Winter Olympics and was besieged a decade later during the Bosnian war, is considering another bid to secure the Winter Games in 2010.

Sir Rodney Walker, chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL) has admitted that the new Wembley stadium will not be ready until the end of 2004.

UK-based publicity firm Propergander has restructured and rebranded to become Resource-PR Limited.

Turkish soccer clubs have rejected a proposal from state television to help end a dispute over broadcast rights that has prevented the re-start of the Turkish first division programme.

The U.S. Supreme Court questioned on Wednesday disabled golfer Casey Martin's argument that he must be allowed to ride in a cart between shots, rather than walk the course, during professional competition.

The Athens Olympics will give a 2.5 percent fillip to Greece's gross national product in 2004, the year the games return to their ancestral roots, organising committee (ATHOC) head Gianna Angelopoulou said.

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed it will grant internet organisations accreditation at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

Eurosport.com has launched six new country-specific sports sites, including eurosport.co.uk in the UK.

It may be more than seven months before world sport's most prestigious job is decided but campaigning was already hotting up at the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s headquarters in Lausanne.

Many of snooker?s top stars look set to join a breakaway tour which threatens to split the sport and end the domination of the game by its governing body, the WSA, following plans announced by The Sportsmasters Network (TSN).

Greece's deputy chief for the 2004 Olympics resigned on Monday citing personal reasons after six months in the job, the organising committee (ATHOC) said.