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The Salt Lake City bribery scandal is likely to haunt the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in his first year in charge, according to prospective candidate Jacques Rogge.

Real Sociedad president Luis Uranga and his board of directors have decided to resign because of the club's poor performance over the last two seasons.

Athens Olympics organisers (ATHOC) are forecasting revenues from TV rights for the 2004 Games will rise 16.5 percent from the Sydney figure to $800 million.

Broadcast sponsorship of Eurosport?s coverage of the Olympic Games was a huge success, according to a survey of European television viewers.

The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) has signed a six-year deal worth $400million (US$216 million) with Australia's biggest pay television company Foxtel.

ESPN.com will offer sports fans the opportunity to interact with an audio broadcast of a sports event when it provides exclusive audio for the Jimmy V Classic next Tuesday featuring Tennessee vs. Virginia and Seton Hall vs. Michigan State.

Lucent Technologies has signed a long-term agreement as Title Sponsor of the Tour de las Americas, the Latin American PGA golf tour.

September's Sydney Olympics should be a financial success after being praised worldwide as the greatest Games in history, Olympic leaders said on Tuesday.

The Ladies European Tour (LET) has adopted a more global approach in a bid to increase the playing and earning opportunities for its growing membership.

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.

WIGE and RTL New Media are to team up to produce an online service package for the forthcoming four-hill ski-jumping tournament and ski-jumping World Cup.

The Australian government has warned football leagues and media outlets that it won't tolerate a reduction in the amount of football shown on free-to-air television.

Major League Soccer claimed a legal victory on Monday when a jury unanimously decided that the six-year-old league was not an illegal monopoly and had not limited players' salaries.

The German media giant Kirch group's newly merged ProSieben Sat1 Media AG is looking to win the broadcasting rights to Formula One motor racing post 2003.

Battery manufacturer Energizer has signed a deal to become the title sponsor of the inaugural European CrossCup.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA said on Sunday it was open to the idea of sponsors names on national team shirts but insisted they would not be allowed at the 2002 World Cup. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said the association's executive had discussed the idea at an end-of-year meeting in Rome but wanted to examine it further before making a decision.