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The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team has signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., designating Yahoo! Sports as the team's exclusive Internet Services sponsor.

Japan Sports Channel, Inc. (JSC) the loss-making digital sports channel, will be dissolved by its owners, Itochu Corp.

Univision, the leading Spanish-language television broadcast company in the United States, is to broadcast the "Copa Oro 2000" (Gold Cup) tournament, beginning on Sunday, February 13.

FIA president Max Mosley has threatened to reduce the number of Grand Prix events in Europe in the wake of the EU?s investigation into the FIA's control of television rights in the sport.

Sports Dome 2001, the consortium made up of businesses and sporting bodies which aims to turn the site of the Millennium Dome in London into a complex dedicated to sport, have met up to finalise their proposals.

As Hurricane Floyd makes its journey across the States, the sports world is having to pick up the pieces after a number of events fell victim.

Octagon, the sports marketing arm of the massive Interpublic Group, has launched as a consolidated brand and declared its intention to grow its share of the market.

Latin America?s Octagon Koch Tavares has signed a deal to be exclusive marketing agency for the Brazilian Tennis Confederation (CBT).

Top Australian Olympic official Kevan Gosper has defended Sydney Games organisers against a consumer watchdog over the number of Olympic tickets available to the public.

Sports.com Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of SportsLine USA, Inc, has formed a strategic alliance with France Telecom Multimedia, a subsidiary of France Telecom, to produce and host co-branded sports channels for France Telecom's Internet portal, Voila, and its Internet service provider, Wanadoo, in France.

Goal Media Group, the global Internet soccer company, has announced the appointment of Keir Radnedge as executive editor.

UK Minister of Sport Kate Hoey and government officials are examining the terms of Wembley's #120 million lottery funding to see if the money should be paid back by Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL), a subsidiary of the Football Association.

Australia's telecommunications giant Telstra Corp Ltd said it had talked to the Australian Football League (AFL), but it was not in the process of bidding for the pay TV or Internet rights of the game.

Australian newspaper reports say that plans to allow sightseers free entry into Sydney Olympic Park during the 2000 Games have displeased giant American television broadcaster NBC. NBC Sports head Dick Ebersol indicated yesterday he was not happy about the Homebush Bay Olympic site being turned into a "party and picnic" area for the Games. Ebersol, whose network is spending $1 billion to broadcast the Olympics, said he would have preferred the site closed to non-ticketholders at least during the first week of competition.

Germany's campaign to host the 2006 Soccer World Cup moved to Central Africa this week when German soccer legend and bid leader Franz Beckenbauer arrived in Cameroon to drum up support.

Rupert Murdoch wants to take full control of German TV station tm3 to allow him to sell its Champions League soccer broadcast rights to other channels, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung has reported.