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Sports marketing heavyweights ISL have launched a new Tennis Division to handle the ATP Tour?s Super 9 tournaments and the ITF?s Fed Cup.
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Seeking to stabilise opinion on the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee's co-ordination commission, Swiss lawyer Marc Hodler, whose allegations of bribery against his colleagues triggered the biggest Olympic scandal in history, has said the hiring of IMG to recruit more 2002 Winter Games sponsors will help the Salt Lake City games to recover.
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Quepasa!com will sponsor Fox Sports World Espanol's network coverage of the Copa America '99 which begins on June 29.
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UK broadcaster Sky Sports has won the exclusive live rights to the next two Ryder Cups between Europe and the United States.
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Fox Broadcasting Corp. chief executive David Hill is leaving his post and returning to his roots in sports as head of a new Fox group overseeing the entertainment giant's global sports operations.
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HBO, the Time Warner owned cable network, will not renew its contract with Wimbledon - thereby ending a 25 year association.
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A new 'bid acceptance' procedure is set to be established for cities hoping to stage an Olympic Games, as the IOC continues to ensure no future repeat of the Salt Lake City scandal.
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A decision on who should run Melbourne, Australia's 2006 Commonwealth Games, is set to be made next week.
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Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL), the company behind the new English national stadium project at Wembley, have revealed an increase in stadium costs from #320m to #475m.
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Russian Sports Minister Boris Ivanyuzhenkov has ruled out the city of Yaroslavl as joint hosts of the 2000 world ice hockey championship.
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DIRECTV, the leading US digital pay-TV entertainment service, has reached an affiliate agreement with FOX Sports World to offer the network on the DIRECTV programming line-up beginning September 1, 1999.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee's decision making group has recommended revamping the rapidly growing organisation to operate like a corporation and earn $20 million a month.
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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.
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European soccer has expanded its reach even further after the UEFA Champions League signed a joint TV rights deal with two Middle Eastern broadcasters to show simultaneous coverage of the competition in Arabic and English every Wednesday night.
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The official website of CART has smashed its previous two-day record for visits over it Road America race weekend.
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Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic has struck a deal with online broadcasting specialist Servecast.
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The soccer stadiums for the first Afro-Asian Games have been severely criticised by a leading official who said they were unfit to stage international events.
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Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Cleveland Indians has denied reports that coverage of its matches would only be available on pay-TV platforms next season.
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