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The British government said on Wednesday it was scrapping plans to redevelop Wembley stadium to host athletics and would focus instead on upgrading the ground for soccer and rugby league.
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FieldTurf Inc. and FieldTurf International, Inc. have announced that they have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against Southwest Recreational Industries, Inc. the maker of the synthetic grass sports surface known as Astroturf, for unlawful acts of patent infringement and anti-trust violations.
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Extreme Interactive and Nirve Sports have formed an alliance over the distribution of sports programming.
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The Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), a new, 24-hour, all sports cable and satellite digital television network directed at sports fans throughout Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, will debut on Tuesday, February 15 with the live, exclusive broadcast of Copa Libertadores, the region's most important football event.
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The Swiss government has unveiled plans to invest up to SwFr 80m in sporting facilities of national importance between 2000 to 2005.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has become the latest to sign up as a rights holder for the KL Commonwealth Games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.
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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.
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A $411 million plan to build a new home for the Padres baseball team and renovate downtown San Diego took a step closer to reality Tuesday when the city council voted to place the issue on the November ballot.
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News Corp. took the first formal step toward the public offering of stock in its and TV businesses including Fox Sports when it filed a prospectus for Fox Entertainment Group.
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The average price of middle-range Games tickets is expected to hit about AUS$100 in the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games ticketing package, to be released in Sydney today.
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ABC's "Monday Night Football" is off to what's apparently its worst ratings start ever - despite hype surrounding the new early start time.
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The consortium that holds exclusive broadcasting rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup soccer tournaments will allow the events to be shown on non-subscription television stations, according to an official of consortium member ISL.