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BOSTON CELTICS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NSTAR
NSTAR has entered into a two-year marketing and community relations agreement with the Boston Celtics. NSTAR is the parent company of Boston Edison, Commonwealth Electric, Cambridge Electric and Commonwealth Gas.
SEPANG F1 TRACK BOOSTS MALAYSIAN ECONOMY
THE RM286 million used to build the Sepang F1 Circuit which hosted the inaugural Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix in October has greatly benefited the Malaysian economy, according to a research study by Universiti Malaya.
NEW JERSEY WANTS YANKEES BASEBALL TEAM
New Jersey State Governor Christie Whitman has announced she will help prepare a plan for moving the Yankees across the Hudson River if one is requested by an advisory panel that the team's owner, George Steinbrenner ??..
COMMONWEALTH GAMES WILL STAY IN MALAYSIA SAY ORGANISERS
There is a rumour that will not go away - this year's Commonwealth Games will have to be shifted from Malaysia to Australia because of smog.
FRANCE URGES STRIKERS NOT TO HIJACK WORLD CUP
The French Transport Ministry has urged air, rail and road haulage unions not to tarnish the image of France by carrying out their threat to strike during the forthcoming World Cup.
MEDICAL EXPERT PRESSES SMOG STANDARD FOR KL GAMES
The medical adviser to the Commonwealth Games has said he favoured setting a smog threshold to protect athletes from being endangered by heavy pollution during September's competition.
BOXING CANCELLATION RATTLES CABLE COMPANIES
The cancellation of Saturday's heavyweight-championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Henry Akinwande has left the cable industry with a sizable bill.
SELIG DENIES APPOINTMENT REPORT
Bud Selig, Major League Baseball's acting commissioner for nearly six years, denied a New York Times report Thursday that he has accepted the job on a permanent basis.
OPTUS PUTS SPORT PAY-TV CHANNELS INTO LIQUIDATION
Optus Communications is liquidating its pay-TV sports channels, and is renegotiating its sports broadcast rights, putting football coverage in jeopardy.
ITF TO TRY ‘NO-AD’ RULE
Driven by pressure to produce a more TV friendly product, tennis' governing body are to experiment with a 'no-ad' scoring system for certain tournaments.
NEWCASTLE UNITED INVITE SHEPHERD AND HALL BACK
Newcastle United has said it has invited Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall, who resigned in March over disparaging remarks they made about team supporters and local women, to rejoin the football club board.
MCG SPELLS $6M A YEAR
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) may sell naming rights to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for $A6m a year.
NEBIOLO BACKS STANCE ON PAYMENTS
World athletics boss Primo Nebiolo backed on Tuesday Zurich's decision not to accept the alleged financial demands of leading sprinters Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon for the richest meeting in the sport.
STADIUM PUTS ON THE FIVE-STAR FINISH
The $463 million Stadium Australia taking shape in western Sydney will not only be the biggest ever built for an Olympic Games, but from a business point of view, by far the best.
BROWNS’ OWNERSHIP RACE HOTS UP
The field of candidates to buy the NFL expansion team the Cleveland Browns has narrowed, with three of seven bidders dropping out.
GERMAN FEDERATION BOSS HURT BY CRITICS, MIGHT QUIT
German Soccer Federation (DFB) president Egidius Braun has said he had been hurt by critics and was considering retirement.
MALAYSIA TO BID FOR ASIAN GAMES
After successfully hosting the Commonwealth Games over the last one and a half weeks, Malaysia is now planning to make a bid for the Asian games in 2006 and the Olympic Games in 2008.
SAMSUNG TO BUILD WORLD CUP STADIUM
The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Supply Administration announced September 21 that a consortium led by Samsung Engineering Co. has been selected to design and build the main stadium for the 2002 World Cup.