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Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group has expanded its sports empire by pushing ahead with an agreement to take a stake in a new arena in Loa Angeles and options in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball and Kings hockey teams.
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New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Monday has announced a financing plan to build a new baseball stadium for the Yankees, but he won't say where it will be.
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Iranian women will soon be able to play football, one of the Islamic republic's most prominent sports officials has said.
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The Formula-1 race organiser Hungaroring Sport(HS)Rt expects to post a loss because domestic broadcaster MTV cannot pay the rights fees, according to chairman Janos Bereny.
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Hungary hopes to score a first on the Internet by broadcasting a soccer game live on the web later this month, a local sports newspaper reported.
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The Sydney 2000 Olympics are in danger of becoming the
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Sports management groups in Australia say that sponsorship dollars are harder to come by because they are being siphoned off to Olympic contracts, the Australian Financial review reports.
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Russell E Wolff has been appointed Vice President, Programming at ESPN STAR Sports.
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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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German sportswear company Uhlsport, which filed for bankruptcy in March is set to get a new owner.
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Chinese swimming officials have vowed to intensify a crackdown on drug abuse by conducting more tests and slapping life bans on steroid cheats, state media has said.
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Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.
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Romanian national coach Anghel Iordanescu has accused the country's soccer authorities of endangering the country's World Cup chances by denying him funds, facilities and competitive warm-up matches.
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Terrestrial Swedish television company SVT, are claiming damages of 500 000 Swedish Krona ($66,000) from ISPR.
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Two of the world?s leading sports marketing companies have merged under the umbrella of the acquisitive Octagon group.
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Newmarket, headquarters of British flat racing, on Monday unveiled plans for a new stand, the most expensive project at a British racecourse.
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STAR Sports new pay channel service delivered record viewing figures for the Sharjah Cricket final, between India and Australia, broadcast on April 24th.
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Alan Pascoe, who sold his final holding in his API Group to Octagon on Monday, is back at the commercial helm of British athletics.