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Pressure is building for Air New Zealand to spend millions of dollars to fly the All Blacks to the rugby union World Cup in their own black jet, the company said on Sunday.

The owners of Britain's 59 race courses are planning to launch their own online, tax-free bookmaking business, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Talk Radio plan to invest #6m to start up the UK's first 24-hour all-sports radio station.

CBS and the NCAA are in talks to extend their broadcast rights agreement to the Division I basketball tournament.

The control of Everton Football Club will be determined by auction following the decision of majority shareholder and former chairman Peter Johnson to rebuff a #30m offer from board director Bill Kenwright.

Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE:DIS - news) Buena Vista Internet Group has agreed to purchase 60 percent of soccernet.com from the Daily Mail & General Trust Plc (quote from Yahoo!UK & Ireland: DMGO.L) for an undisclosed amount.

Soccer clubs under common ownership will not be allowed to take part in UEFA competitions starting next season, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled on Monday.

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.

ESPN.com is kicking off a series of significant product launches with the debut of newly acquired Soccernet and culminating with a completely redesigned ESPN.com the first week of September to coincide with the opening of the NFL season.

Poland's soccer authorities have sanctioned a range of measures, including a new soccer competition and an independent premier league, in an attempt to revive the ailing national game.

Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports and Olympics chairman, and Alan Ramadan, Quokka Sports co-founder and chief executive officer, have introduced NBC's expanded Olympic coverage at www.nbcolympics.com.

Broadcaster Grupo Televisa said on Tuesday it was looking for buyers for one of the three Mexican first division soccer clubs it owns.

UFA Sport has made a 12-year equity investment in Italian Serie B club, Sampdoria. The deal is believed to be worth between $50m-$60m over 12 years

Two years after announcing that the World Cup of golf would become the fourth World Championships event in 2000, U.S. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem admitted recently that it was unlikely to happen.

ISL Television is to exclusively represent the international broadcast rights to the five key domestic Brazilian football competitions under an agreement with the domestic rights-holders for Brazilian football: Clube dos Treze and Rede Globo.

The Nationwide Building Society has added to its UK soccer sponsorship portfolio by signing a three-year #500,000 sponsorship deal with the FA of Wales (FAW).