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British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc has secured broadcasting rights to West Indies cricket matches in an eight-year deal with the West Indies Cricket Board, according to press reports.
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The first golf tournament in the world to offer one million dollars as a first prize will this year be played for twice that amount, the organisers have announced.
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Internetsoccer.com has introduced a new soccer business information channel.
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Time Warner and Walt Disney have called a temporary halt to feud that has blacked out the ABC cable network in 3.5million US homes since Monday.
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The Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) may raise $A85m in ticket sales to events it had described as "sold out".
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The German Football Federation (DFB) has signed a lucrative deal with German media group Kirch under which all Bundesliga matches would be shown live on pay-TV or pay-per-view for the first time from next season.
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CBS SportsLine has signed a licensing deal with Medford, Ma.-based Trakus, which develops technology to measure athletic performance in real time.
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Internet company Virtual World of Sports has secured a Au$9.2 million three-year naming rights sponsorship deal with The Australian Ladies Masters golf tournament. The sponsorship ensures that the tournament stays at Royal Pines on Australia?s Gold Coast until at least 2003.
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A united North-South Korean soccer team for the 2002 World Cup finals is one proposal South Korea plans to make to the North at an unprecedented meeting of their leaders in June, a South Korean official has said.
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LOS ANGELES: Andrew Gellatly, SportBusiness.com new media editor, reports from the Interactive Sports 2000 conference.
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Jim McManus has been appointed vice president, motorsports, at sports events signage and banner provider Britten Media.
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The WTA Tour has chosen to look on the bright side after failing to win equality for women players in the prize money offered for the 2000 Wimbledon tennis championships.
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First Entertainment, a leading Multimedia Internet Entertainment Company, will stream live video of the PGA Compaq Classic of New Orleans on the company's F2 Sports Network. The live streaming will take place between May 1 - 7 from the English Tern Golf and Country Club in New Orleans.
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The English FA has decided not to send an under-18 team to a tournament in Turkey next month because of security fears following the fatal stabbing of two Leeds United fans there earlier this month.
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CNBC, the financial news network, has signed a four-year deal with the PGA Tour to televise 33 Senior PGA Tour events domestically, beginning in 2001.
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The Commissioners of the four major US sports have met in New York to discuss the role of new technology in sports? future. David Stern of the National Basketball Association, Paul Tagliabue of the National Football League, Gary Bettman of the National Hockey League, and Bud Selig, head of Major League Baseball discussed the need for additional online sports content, web video, and a significant increase in internet interactivity with fans. In addition, the commissioners expanded on the revenue stream potential of the internet.
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SportBusiness.com new media editor Andrew Gellatly reports from the Interactive Sports 2000 conference in Los Angeles.
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E. Stanley Kroenke, a Missouri real estate tycoon has paid Ascent Entertainment Group #450 million for the NBA Denver Nuggets, the NHL Colorado Avalanche and their arena, Denver?s Pepsi Centre.