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Specialist internet group Play-Sport New Media has joined forces with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a new on-line cricket venture to provide an extensive internet network for amateur cricketers and their cricketing communities.
Events

Golf.com has launched its second joint venture based on fantasy games with Smallworld.com, an independent developer of online fantasy sports games.
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SimPlayer.com, a developer of interactive applications for the sports market, has formed a strategic partnership with The New England Patriots NFL franchise.
Business

Total Sports, an online sports media company, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will have provided online coverage of nearly 100 events when this year?s spring season championships come to a close.
Business

Virtual imaging company Orad Hi-Tech Systems recorded revenues up 128 per cent in the first quarter of 2000.
Business

Enic, the UK-based entertainment, sports and media group has acquired ukbetting.com, the internet bookmaker for #500,000 ($749,000), reports the Financial Times.
Business

The Premier League is to consider a TV rights auction after 75 requests were received for the tender document when the deadline for the broadcasters? initial bids passed yesterday. The number of bids for the next three-year deal was even more than the Premier League had originally anticipated.
Events

Fox Sports International has launched a new all-sports channel for Central and Eastern Europe.
Media

SportSitio.com, the content-driven, interactive sports entertainment portal for the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets, will add "virtual golf lessons" to its Web site's expanding portfolio with an on-line content and service partnership with GolfingEdge.com.
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The turbulent stock market may be creating funding problems for the big sports web site players as they continue to burn through cash, but Rivals.com general manager Scott Ehrlich argues that sports community niche sites will prosper because they can market themselves using the already existing connections and affinities between fans and groups of sports participants.
Business

Granada Media interactive (GMi), the online advertising division of the Granada Group, has brokered a commercial partnership between Granada and leading digital content provider 365 Corporation.
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UEFA have announced sweeping changes to their internal structure.
Media

To ability to insert personalised advertisements into web broadcasts of sport has taken a step closer after Philips Digital Networks and Symah Vision announced they were collaborating to develop a cutting edge technology.
Media

Euro 2000 organisers have freed up well over 50,000 tickets for this summer's championships and plan to sell them from Thursday.
Business

The New Zealand Rugby Football Union, whose All Blacks team is one of the world?s best recognised sports brands, has appointed Media Content Sports Media Advisors as television and media rights consultants.
Media

Orad?s IMadGINE virtual advertising system and CyberSport will be used during the Canadian Football League broadcasts over The Sports Network (TSN), Canada?s most watched sports network.
Media

The Canadian Football League has struck a deal with Orad to use its virtual advertising systems on broadcasts over The Sports Network.
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Quokka Sports, a provider of online sports entertainment, has launched The Quokka Sports Affiliate Programme. The programme is intended to increase the reach of the Quokka Sports Network and extend the Quokka brand to new audiences. It is also designed to drive sales to Quokka's online stores.