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Racing Champions, the producer and marketer of collectibles and best known for its extensive lines of officially licensed NASCAR racing replicas, Press Pass trading cards, NASCAR souvenirs and apparel, has received the Licensee of the Year (Hard Goods) award from The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association (LIMA).

Plans for a new basketball and ice hockey arena in Dallas, due for completion in autumn 2001, have been unveiled by city officials.

Guinness announced a 15 per cent sales increase in the UK for the September/October period during which they sponsored the Rugby World Cup.

SportsLine USA, the global Internet sports media company, has announced that its combined reach among Internet users at home and at work exceeded all other sports Web sites for the month of July.

World Cup Skateboarding (WCS), the world skateboarding sanctioning body and tour organiser, has appointed action-sport marketing agency IMS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sportsworld Media Group plc to manage its commercial interests globally.

The BBC will broadcast highlights of CART?s first race on UK soil later this month.

Turner Network Television will still broadcast a significant amount of live Goodwill Games action in the US despite an unfavourable time difference to Australia.

Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), the pay television sports network in Latin America will offer complete coverage of the US Open tennis from August 27 to September 9.
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The finance director of English Premier League soccer club Leeds United has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that the club will sell the naming rights to its new #60million ($87m/?95m) stadium.
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DISH Network, the U.S. direct broadcast satellite television entertainment company, is to offer the ESPN GamePlan college football package to customers on DISH On Demand.

The 2002 Australian Open will be the first Grand Slam to offer spectators the chance to see wheelchair tennis players in tournament action, Tennis Australia (TA) president Geoff Pollard said on Monday.

Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.

Sports Resource Group plc is to acquire Sweden-based IEC in Sports International Events and Communications AB for an initial consideration of up to #17.5million ($25.04m/?28.44m).

UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports has secured the exclusive live rights to the UEFA Cup home ties involving English Premiership clubs Leeds United and Chelsea.

The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and ESPN units have confirmed that Tiger Woods will appear in several special events for the two television networks over the next five years, in a widely expected deal.

Nasdaq-listed US racecourse and wagering operation Churchill Downs Inc has recorded revenues of $163.3million (?185m) for the second quarter, an increase of 24.0 percent, compared with $132.2m (?150m) for the same period last year.