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London based Sports and Outdoor Media International has acquired The Boyer Group, Australia's principal sports stadia and outdoor advertising company.
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Television shops in soccer-mad Vietnam are gearing up for an expected bonanza during the upcoming World Cup in France that starts June 10.
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France 98 has not delivered the goods for UK commercial TV netork ITV despite the apparent deluge of television advertising related to football, reports the London Sunday Telegraph.
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Brititsh newspaper The Daily Telegraph has signed up to be an official FA Premier League sponsor as part of its strategy to become more closely identified with sport.
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If FIFA and its marketing partner ISL are right, FIFA's double-globe football symbol will soon become one of the best known commercial logos in the world.
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Australia will host the richest-ever golf tournament in Sydney or Melbourne in January, 2001.
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Efforts to promote the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in September, which have so far been centred in the towns, have been extended to the rural areas.
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Dutch police are expecting to be overstretched during the 2000 European soccer championship and their union is already calling for the three-week tournament to be shortened by a week.
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The European Commission has for the first time issued guidelines saying how competition rules should apply to the broadcasting of sports events.
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Dr S. Robert Contiguglia has been elected President of the US Soccer Federation and confirmed that the US will bid for the 2010 World Cup.
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St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire's record 62nd home run on Tuesday brought a historic rating high for the Fox network.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would send an envoy to North Korea to initiate friendly sports exchanges between arch enemies North and South Korea.

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European Rugby Cup Ltd has signed a new four-year partnership agreement with ISL Worldwide.
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Caltex Oil (Thailand) Ltd is stepping up its promotion campaign in the run-up to the Asian Games, for which it is a major sponsor.

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FIFA officials are expecting Nigeria on Monday to inspect facilities for next year's world youth cup, a spokesman for the Nigerian tournament organisers said on Sunday.

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A court has ordered the organisers of the Nagano Winter Olympics to pay damages for mental anguish to a spectator who missed an event because of heavy traffic.
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Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from next month's Asian Games in Bangkok because the event clashes with religious and national festivals at home, Thai officials have said.
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The Sydney Olympics won a A$200 million tax break from the national government's proposed goods and services tax (GST), a spokesman for state Olympics minister Michael Knight has said.