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Goodwill Games ticket sales have exploded in the past four weeks with a massive increase over the previous month.

BBC Radio Five Live has signed a deal to provide live coverage of all Manchester United?s European home games for the next two years, starting from this season.

South African terrestrial channel e.tv has secured the exclusive TV rights to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) has finalised its broadcast rights deal with the CBS Television Network and Fox Cable Networks Group beginning with the 2002 season through 2004.

Financial services brand Discover Card has expanded its marketing tie-up with broadcaster ESPN for coverage of US college football.
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The Copa America outstripped the Superbowl and World Series amongst American Hispanics according to research out on Sunday.

Churchill Downs Inc (CDI), in conjunction with the New York Racing Association and Television Games Network, has lost out in its bid for the purchase of New York City Off-Tracking Betting Corp (NYCOTB).

The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow?s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.
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MP Web, the new media division of Media Partners, has signed an exclusive deal with Tele+ for the acquisition of internet rights for 18 Italian Serie A and Serie B soccer clubs.

An estimated 425,000 people are expected to travel to Japan for next year's World Cup, Japanese government officials were quoted as saying on Wednesday.

UK cable companies NTL and Telewest, both of which will broadcast Premiership pay-per-view soccer next season, may be forced into financial restructuring in the face of mounting debts.

Only 10 per cent of an expected 400,000 visitors to Japan from South Korea will be able to get a flight to the soccer World Cup next year, according to Chung Mong Joon, the co-chairman of the tournament?s organising committee.

FIFA says it will confirm within the coming weeks if it will recruit a new marketing agency to help sell sponsorship for the 2002 World Cup, following the collapse of the ISMM Group.

The NBA has stated it will not allow teams to be named after corporations, meaning the Vancouver Grizzlies will not become the Memphis Express even if the league approves the move.

A lack of major sporting events in 2001 compared with last year could be contributing to a fall in advertising revenues for commercial radio and television companies, according to a report.

Shares in Betinternet.com, the internet sports betting company, soared 14 percent to 28p today after it said it had received approaches from predators which could lead to an offer.