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The Eurobet Arrows F3000 team has been officially launched at the Arrows F1 Team's Leafield, Oxfordshire headquarters.

BSkyB has opened talks with Ladbrokes, the leisure group owned by Hilton, that could lead to online betting on Sky Sports television channels and internet web sites, reports the Financial Times.

Fox Sports Net (FSN) has bought the over-the-air television rights to MLB?s Texas Rangers and NHL?s Dallas Stars in a 10-year, $250 million deal, which could be extended for another five years, according to The Dallas Morning News newspaper.

Columbia TriStar Advertiser Sales (CTAS) has appointed veteran sales executive Daniel Nunziata to serve as publisher of DIRECTV ON SPORTS, the monthly magazine for subscribers of DIRECTV.

X-Dream International has announced it is to change its name to Extreme International Ltd and revealed the formation of a new holding company.

The BBC has secured a five-year deal to keep live Test cricket on BBC Radio.

Toyota Motor Corp look set to announce an alliance with Yamaha Motor Co, the world's second largest motorcycle maker, in a bid to strengthen its engine development ahead of its entry into Formula One racing.

English Premier League clubs are expected to suceed in winning the `deferred rights? to their games when the contract for TV rights to the lucrative league is renegotiated later this year.

The International Football Channel (TIFC), the world's first 24 hour soccer network, due to launch its Spanish-language, Latin American signal March 1, has revealed its programming schedule.

Christopher Stokes, formerly of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has joined Sportcal.com as Marketing Director.

ISL and Sport+ - the sports rights acquisitions arm of the Canal+ group ? have announced a strategic television and marketing partnership to further promote the new FIBA EuroLeague.

USA Networks Inc. and the NBA have announced a broad multi-year alliance under which USA Networks will deliver media and electronic-commerce services for the sports league.

It may have only taken four minutes, but the financial fall-out of Mike Tyson?s latest return to the ring proved a very profitable one, according to reports.

The Walt Disney Company is to close its trio of ESPN Stores, thereby ending company's two-year-old venture into sports retailing.

The beleaguered organisers of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games have suffered a second blow in two days when the official broadcaster suspended its advertising contract.

The world's richest man, Bill Gates, plans to offer #1billion ($1.6bn) to secure television rights for England's Premier League soccer, a Singapore newspaper quoted Football Association (FA) commercial director Phil Carling as saying.