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The Sugar Bowl and Shreveport?s Independence Bowl have seen their budgets slashed as legislative efforts to trim the New Orleans state budget were revealed.

Orad Hi-Tec Systems has signed an agreement to acquire France?s Getris S.A.

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is expected to land the main prize in the scramble to televise England's Premier League football.

Italian broadcaster Mediaset and digital TV platform Stream have signed a preliminary accord for the exclusive pay television rights for the 2000-2001 European Champions League soccer games.

International Comstock Exploration, owner of the sports-contest website ProSportsPool.com, has launched an auto-racing marketing campaign designed to increase traffic to the site.

The NFL has chosen the city of Atlanta, host for the 2000 Super Bowl, as one of four finalists to host Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. The other finalists are Jacksonville, Oakland and Miami.

State inspectors on Sunday began investigating the collapse of a pedestrian walkway outside Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, that injured 97 people following a weekend NASCAR stock-car race.

Africa should host a soccer World Cup but not the 2006 tournament, said Franz Beckenbauer, who is leading Germany's bid to stage the event.

The Premier League is to consider a TV rights auction after 75 requests were received for the tender document when the deadline for the broadcasters? initial bids passed yesterday. The number of bids for the next three-year deal was even more than the Premier League had originally anticipated.

Sportsworld Media Group plc, the sports, media and entertainment business, has been appointed as exclusive marketing and media agent to the International Triathlon Union (ITU), the governing body for the sports of Triathlon, Duathlon and related multi-sports worldwide.

LOS ANGELES: Andrew Gellatly, SportBusiness.com new media editor, reports from the Interactive Sports 2000 conference.

A new annual international sports awards ceremony will be inaugurated in Monaco on May 25. The Laureus Sports Awards, will be hosted by stars of the entertainment world such as Jeff Bridges, Ashley Judd and Dylan McDermott and will broadcast to a hoped-for global audience of 1 billion viewers.

The NBA Board of Governors have approved new owners for the Dallas Mavericks, Vancouver Grizzlies and Denver Nuggets.

A spokesman for BSkyB has denied reports it has made any bid for exclusive UK television rights to the soccer World Cup in 2002.

The UK?s Channel 4 is set to join forces with cable giant NTL in a bid to win the rights to broadcast live England soccer internationals.

South Africa has invited African soccer greats Abedi Pele of Ghana and Cameroon's Roger Milla to be ambassadors for their 2006 World Cup bid.