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Churchill Downs racetrack – home to the Kentucky Derby – is to undergo a $127m (B
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Sportscard Group, the UK credit card company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has signed a partnership with hotel and health and fitness club company De Vere Group to market a rewards-based credit card to the De Vere Group’s health club brands
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Octagon Motorsports will have to wait a month before it finds out whether it will have to relinquish one or more of its four British racing circuits and give up its lease on Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix, sportbusiness.com has learned.
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A high-profile and comprehensive marketing campaign, including a free Celtic League ticket offer, will launch the new face of professional rugby union in Scotland at Murrayfield today.
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Organisers of Wales’ Ryder Cup 2009 bid are suing Scottish newspaper the Sunday Mail for defamation following a newspaper article allegedly criticising its Celtic Manor venue.
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The official World Internet Chess Championships have been launched by FIDE Commerce International (FCI) – the exclusive holders of commercial rights to all FIDE world chess events.
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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.
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Premium TV, the sports rights and content internet and broadcast subsidiary wholly-owned by UK cable firm NTL, has launched Footee.net – a soccer-based educational website.
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Australia is seeking an international trotting carnival with Harness Racing Victoria this week launching a new look December showpiece in a bid to attract northern hemisphere competitors in the long-term.
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A multi million-dollar sponsorship arrangement between Australian brewer Tooheys and an Australian horse racing club is under increasing pressure with Tooheys claiming it has not gained the naming rights it was promised.
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Video game giant Electronic Arts has signed a three-year deal with Talladega Superspeedway, naming the famous NASCAR Winston Sup Series autumn race the EA SPORTS 500.
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US virtual imaging company Princeton Video Image (PVI) has signed a two-year deal with NFL team Philadelphia Eagles to provide virtual advertising in all Eagles pre-season games.
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An unidentified athlete has tested positive for the blood-boosting drug EPO (erythropoetin) at the World Athletics Championships, Istvan Gyulai general secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday.
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Germany's state broadcaster ARD and media group Kirch have ended their row over German soccer broadcasting rights by reaching a joint agreement.
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BBC television has withdrawn from negotiations with promoter Don King over the rights to broadcast the world heavyweight title rematch between Lennox Lewis and Hasim Rahman in November.
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The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) has cancelled the European leg of the World Championship Tour after US surfers decided against travelling to Europe after the attacks on New York and Washington.
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London Scottish Rugby Club's chief executive Richard Yerbury has confirmed the Exiles are seriously considering a move to relocate to Edinburgh.
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Springbok captain Gary Teichmann and the majority of South Africa's leading rugby union players have announced they were forming a players' association.