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Online betting shop Coral Eurobet has signed a deal with loss-making mobile entertainment company 12snap to allow punters to place bets using mobile phone text messaging services.

A meeting of the G14 group of top European soccer clubs has failed to agree criteria for the admission of new clubs, reports sportbusiness.com soccer writer Simon Banks from Milan.

FIFA has postponed the World Club Championship, set for the end of July, until 2003.

Barclaycard has decided not sponsor the English Premier League televised highlights show, weeks after the credit card company agreed to pay #48m ($68m) to sponsor the League for three years.

Analysts with investment bank Merrill Lynch believe that the ITV Sports Channel, which has taken over OnDigital?s sports programming, will also be carried by satellite platform BSkyB and cable outlets because the ?channel is not viable otherwise.?

Finnish ice hockey officials have agreed to host the 2003 world ice hockey championship, swapping the 2004 tournament with the Czech Republic who need more time to finish their facilities.

Racecourse and media group Arena Leisure Plc said today its Go Racing consortium had signed sufficient UK racecourses to advance with its plans to control TV rights for horse racing in Britain.

Sportsworld Media, the sports marketing and television production company, has increased its foothold down under after buying Elite Sports Properties (ESP), an Australian athlete management company which represents about 20 Olympic and Commonwealth champions, as well as a number of leading Australian Football League players.

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's pet project to build an 80,000-seater national sports stadium was in fresh trouble on Thursday as coalition partners and opposition politicians lined up to criticise the plan.

French media firm Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier has spoken for the first time about acquiring Swiss sports marketing firm ISMM ? parent company of ISL.

Top German soccer club Bayern Munich are seeking an equity partner in order to finance an #80m ($124m) transfer spending spree, vice president Karl Heinz Rummenigge revealed at SportBusiness 2001 in London.

The Flora London Marathon contributes almost #66 million ($94.3m) to the UK economy annually, according to a new report.

Shares in soccer side AS Roma fell sharply on Monday after the Italian first division leaders lost 3-1 to Fiorentina, recording only their third league defeat of the season.

KSS Sports and Leisure Design Ltd, the London-based Sports Entertainment design group, have been selected by the Haifa Economic Corporation Ltd, to masterplan and design the new Haifa Sports Complex in Israel.

German media group Bertelsmann expects to conclude an accord with Vivendi Universal on sports broadcasting rights "very soon", Bertelsmann chief Thomas Middelhoff has told Le Monde newspaper.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU), MBNA Europe Bank Limited (MBNA) and global licensing agency Copyright Promotions Licensing Group (CPLG) have launched the official England Rugby Visa Card.