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Real Madrid and AC Milan have thrown their support behind UEFA's plans for a revamped Champions' League after another meeting between 12 of Europe's top clubs and their governing body.

Sydney Airport would be able to handle the Olympics in year 2000, Tony Stuart, the chief executive of Sydney Airports Corp, has said.

On the eve of a pivotal bargaining session, NBA commissioner David Stern, speaking on ESPN's "Up Close," said cancellation of the entire season is a very real possibility.

The decision by the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust to seek naming rights sponsors for two of Victoria's premier sporting facilities has caused a mixed reaction among tenants.

A German bank has offered to purchase all of motor racing tycoon Bernie Ecclestone's planned bond issue provided conditions including a reduction in the deal's size are met, bankers in London has said.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday rebutted criticism from other soccer leaders over his call for the World Cup finals to be staged every two years.

Olympic heads are almost certain to roll when a probe into alleged bribery is concluded at the weekend but Juan Antonio Samaranch, the most powerful man in the movement, will not be one of them, according to a Reuters report.

Though the Super Bowl is traditionally a showcase for top advertisers, a number of lesser-known companies are wagering big bucks on this Sunday's game.

A top Japanese Olympics official has said there were "excesses" in Nagano's winning bid for the 1998 Winter Games but that a probe was being hampered because Olympic documents had been destroyed.

French pay television group Canal Plus says it and private terrestrial TV company TF1 have agreed to share broadcasting rights for the European football Champions' League for matches played from September to May from 1999 to 2003.

Wembley plc, the gaming and leisure operator, has announced another year of record profits.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, long stymied in the German media market, now has the chance to become a major player thanks to a bold back door deal, predict analysts.

The German government's media commission, the Landesmedienanstalten has decided to regulate on virtual advertising.

Brazilian soccer legend Pele has confirmed he has been in discussions with Media Partners over the possibility of forming a Brazilian Super League.

The proposed spring US Football League, the International Football Federation (IFF), have held preliminary discussions with NBC and Turner Broadcasting, the networks that lost out in the $18 billion NFL contract negotiated in 1998.

Greg Dyke, the former Head of Sport with commercial network ITV and a current director of Manchester United has been appointed director-general of the BBC, the most powerful job in British broadcasting.