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The company hoping to set up a European soccer Super League is to hold talks with the European Commission, an EC has spokeswoman said.

British media company United News & Media Plc has criticised pay-TV giant BSkyB's plan to buy top soccer club Manchester United, arguing that BSkyB was trying to protect its grip on Premier League soccer coverage.

Expectations of a swift counter-attack by a rival bidder to Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB for famed English soccer club Manchester United have faded as two rumoured candidates stepped off the pitch.

Del Monte has signed a #2m sponsorship deal with the well-known Italian football team Lazio.

In a surprising move, Spanish telephone company Telefonica has broken off talks with Sogecable to merge the country's two digital platforms, the Telefonica-led Via Digital and Sogecable's CanalSatelite Digital (CSD).

Stock prices of both News Corp. and CBS Corp. fell Tuesday as expectations grew that stock offerings planned by offshoots of both companies are likely to be postponed.

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.