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Business

Rotterdam police and local authorities are falling badly short in their efforts to contain a rising hooligan threat at next year's European championship finals, an independent research body has said.
Business

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

CBS and Disney's ABC-ESPN, losers in the recent NASCAR deal, are vying to tie-up the rights to NCAA men's basketball, as formal presentations to the NCAA began this week.
Business

Almost two-thirds (65%) of the UK adult population watched England play Scotland in the Euro 2000 soccer playoffs.
Business

IOC members are gathering for a special meeting at the weekend where they will be presented with a number of recommendations for Olympic reform.
Business

Sydney-based television facilities company Global Television and production company All Media Sports have been named joint host broadcaster for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.
Events

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has signed a new agreement with ISL Worldwide.
Events

Simon Green has been named the new general manager of Sky Sports Online ? the sports site run by broadcast giant BSkyB.
Business

iCraveTV.com Inc. this week broadcast two National Football League playoff games, the second-highest rated football program after the Superbowl, despite a landmark lawsuit launched against the upstart web company last week by US TV and movie heavyweights, including the NFL.
Business

The Swiss government has unveiled plans to invest up to SwFr 80m in sporting facilities of national importance between 2000 to 2005.
Events

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has become the latest to sign up as a rights holder for the KL Commonwealth Games.
Business

Thirty members of the European Parliament have taken the French organisers of the soccer World Cup to court to force them to redistribute hundreds of thousands of tickets abroad.
Events

Two TV networks that lost out in the high-stakes bidding to televise NFL games face major hurdles in realising their ambition to form a new pro football league, according to advertising executives.
Events

NBC has clinched a record NBA Finals rating with a sixth-game overnight score that may also be the top single-game rating in league history.
Business

The English Football Association hopes to collect #12million by selling the rights to sponsor the England football team in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup.
Events

British Sky broadcasting, the News Corp-owned UK pay TV company, will be free to broadcast one of its sports channels on spare digital bandwidth allocated to Channel 5.
Events

European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.
Business

Carmen Policy who resigned last week after seven years as president of the 49ers, has announced that he and billionaire banker Al Lerner are applying to buy the Cleveland expansion team that begins play in 1999.