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Sports marketing company Sportsworld Media has told the stock exchange that it does not expect to reach its profit targets for the year ending June 30 2002.

Online gambling firm Intrade has already completed its millionth deal - just 125 days from launching.

Licensed Nascar merchandise company, Action Performance, has recorded its second consecutive quarter of record revenues and earnings.

The Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, has announced a package of digital content services for this summer's World Cup, despite FIFA's recent decision not to broadcast the competition live on the internet.

China has stunned observers by entering the bidding to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

The Extreme Sports Channel has won the UK TV rights for the extreme sports event, the Gravity Games.

Moscow's bid to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships has an excellent chance of success, the head of Russian athletics said.

Broadcasting giant BSkyB has signed a deal with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone which will see the former providing interactive pay-per-view coverage of F1.

Global Sportnet, the Hamburg-based sports rights specialist, has agreed a long-term marketing deal with the Hungarian club FerencvC!ros Budapest.

Several Houston-based corporations have reportedly contacted the Houston Astros baseball team about putting their name on the team's ballpark, Enron Field.

UEFA has confirmed sportbusiness.com's exclusive that TEAM has once again won the agency contract to market the Champions League in a deal worth an estimated $700m (EUR798m).

Lifestyle sports brand Vans, Inc has hired former adidas executive Robert Nagel to the position of senior vice president of sales and apparel.

The Professional Snowboarder's Association (PSA) is battling to save the 10-year-old tour it took over in late-2001 from the International Snowboard Federation

The US Formula One Radio Network will launch in March courtesy of ex-ISL executive and CART CEO Andrew Craig.

The Sydney Football Stadium (SFS) has signed a naming rights agreement with financial services company Aussie Home Loans as part of a multi-million dollar deal.

South Korea's President Kim Dae-jung has told World Cup organisers that security is the most important issue for the country to consider as it prepares to co-host the World Cup finals later this year.