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The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team has signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., designating Yahoo! Sports as the team's exclusive Internet Services sponsor.

BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.

A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.

UK online betting service Bluesq.com has signed a $650,000 deal with sport-only radio station talkSPORT.

Publicly owned investment holding company, Peacock Financial Corp. has acquired the Bay Area Seals, the professional A-league soccer club of San Francisco, California.

Danny Jordaan made a powerful appeal to FIFA's executive committee to end the cycle of European domination of world soccer by handing South Africa the 2006 World Cup finals.

Leading US radio company Clear Channel Communications Inc is to buy SFX Entertainment Inc., the US entertainment and sports group for $4.4 billion in stock and debt in a bid to winmore business from advertisers.

English Premier League clubs are expected to suceed in winning the `deferred rights? to their games when the contract for TV rights to the lucrative league is renegotiated later this year.

Alan Gold has been named NFL vice president of international media, following the departure from the post of long term incumbent Anne Murray.

The 10 cities hoping to host the 2008 Summer Games left International Olympic Committee headquarters this week confident they would all clear the first hurdle in the bidding process.

A FIFA inspection team has arrived in Morocco for a five-day visit, saying the country's bid file to host the 2006 World Cup was outstanding.

A Moroccan official said he was surprised by the results of a poll of sports editors showing the country was bottom of the list of the five bidding to host the 2006 World Cup finals.

ESPN Star Sports has secured an exclusive cable and satellite deal with the ATP Tour for the new Tennis Masters Series, previously known as the Mercedes Super 9 Series and the Tennis Masters Cup for the 2000 though 2002 seasons.

News Corp and Liberty Media has announced that its joint venture Fox Sports International is to launch a sports television channel targeting viewers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Single Market Events, organisers of Brand Licensing London, have formed a strategic alliance with Avanstar Communications, organisers of the New York International Licensing Show.

Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL) has appointed Bovis Lend Lease/ Multiplex Constructions Limited as the preferred contractors for the construction of the new Wembley Stadium.