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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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Sports Minister Richard Caborn has promised that the UK will demonstrate it is capable of hosting the Olympics in case the Government bids to bring the Games to Britain in 2012.

A new crowd-pleasing motor-racing Grand Prix series featuring cars racing in the livery of Europe?s top soccer clubs is aiming to reach one billion viewers in its first season, sportbusiness.com can reveal.

HBO Enterprises has appointed Total Sports Asia (TSA) as its exclusive TV rights representative in Asia for boxing events.

New Zealand pay television operator Sky Network Television Ltd has named private broadcaster TV3 as Sky's free-to-air broadcast partner for rugby union and cricket for the 2001/02 season.

Turner Network Television (TNT) has recorded the second highest NASCAR television ratings in basic cable history with its coverage of the New England 300 race.

The most commonly abused drug in sport, erythropoietin (EPO), is not being tested for at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka as officials try and isolate the sport from recent drugs controversies.

US television executives have said that Tiger Woods' popularity was not a significant factor in their new deals with the PGA Tour.

Cablevision and Multicanal have been ordered to transmit Sunday?s soccer international between Argentina and Columbia live on open television or lose their licenses.

Basketball?s governing body FIBA is believed to be locked in talks with sport marketing?s new super group after the collapse of ISL.

Speculation is growing that media giant Kirch is planning to go public following the appointment of an American investment banker as the group?s new chief financial officer.

The BBC is set to launch a new digital sport channel within a month of this summer?s debut of the ITV Sport Channel according to sources close to the corporation, heating up the rivalry over sports rights between the two broadcasters.

A row between the England Cricket Board (ECB) and the First Class Forum (FCF), one of its constituent bodies, over the sale of online and wireless rights for up to #100 million ($142m) for the next 10 years is expected to resurface at Lord?s cricket ground this afternoon.

US internet company Logictier, which designs and manages internet web sites, has pulled out of its web hosting deal for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

Nasdaq-listed Quokka Sports, the company at the forefront of developments in online sports content, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States in preparation for an asset fire-sale.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said that there is still a possibility that North Korea may be able to host some 2002 World Cup matches.