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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.
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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.
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The BBC will broadcast highlights of CART?s first race on UK soil later this month.
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Turner Network Television will still broadcast a significant amount of live Goodwill Games action in the US despite an unfavourable time difference to Australia.
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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.
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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.
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Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.
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Boxing promoters Cedric Kushner Boxing (CKB), Inc plans to reverse into Zenascent, Inc, the former internet technology and e-commerce incubator company listed on New York's over the counter billboard market, as part of a merger agreement.
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The Continental Basketball Association?s (CBA) name and logo has been sold to the owner of former CBA club Grand Rapids Hoops for $16,000 (?18,000).
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Dallas cut the ribbon on Friday on a new $420 million (?480m) downtown arena for the NBA Mavericks and NHL Stars, packed with luxuries and high technology that made it the nation's most expensive hockey and basketball facility.
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Organisers of next year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester admit its success or failure could determine Britain's fate in bidding to stage global sporting events in the future.
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The European Commission (EC) has challenged UEFA's policy of selling free and pay-television rights for the Champions League on an exclusive basis.
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Fox Sports has handed an experienced network consultant in the shape of Dan Harrison the role of senior vice-president of programming and strategic planning.
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Major international sporting events, including Formula One, could be severely hit by a proposed European Commission ban on most cigarette advertising.
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e-comsport Group plc, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)-listed sports marketing business, has announced a loss for the year ended 31 December 2000 of #4.5m ($6.41m).
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New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani is set to unveil a $100m investment in a new sports and entertainment complex at Randall's and Ward's Island Park.