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English Premier League soccer club Liverpool is set to broadcast its first full game over the internet.

The new year promises a boom period for stadium naming rights and interactive TV, according to hundreds of industry experts taking part in our online poll.

The Walt Disney Company-owned networks ABC and ESPN have won the US rights to broadcast the next two World Cups and Major League Soccer (MLS) for the next five years, confirming their predicted long-term interest in the sport.

Tennis' four Grand Slams should all be broadcast on one TV network in the US to make it more fan friendly, the man behind the Ericsson Open event has said.

Manchester United has signed up Budweiser, the world's largest selling beer brand, as a 'Platinum Sponsor' and the club's 'Official Beer'.

This summer's FIFA World Cup will have greater economic benefits for South Korea than for Japan, according to a report.

The Athens 2004 cultural Olympics director has resigned, the second cultural Games boss to quit just months after Greece unveiled its $110million (B

Clear Channel Entertainment's motor sports division and Dorna Off-Road have signed an agreement to jointly produce the FIM Supercross World Championship, beginning with the 2002-03 season.

Professional sports venues in California have been sent warning letters in a bid to prevent repeats of recent alcohol-fuelled incidents.

New York's Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, has suggested building new baseball stadiums for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets, with the teams and the city sharing the costs.

Turner Sports' parent company AOL Time Warner has axed the Goodwill Games after 15 years of competition.

The UK government will block any attempt to find a naming rights sponsor for the new national stadium to be built at Wembley as part of the plans to fund the beleaguered project.

G14, the representative body of top European football clubs, are in negotiations for each club to sell their TV rights for the UEFA Champions League on an individual basis.

Skip Barber Racing School, the world's largest performance driver training business, has been sold by the private equity fund Sports Capital Partners to First Equity Group.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWFE) will be staging a series of international live event tours in Asia, Europe and Australia in 2002, starting with a three-city tour through Asia in March.

Benfica's Luz stadium is bowing out after 50 years of being a soccer shrine - to be replaced by a state-of-the-art new venue ready for Portugal's hosting of Euro 2004.