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Online sports media company SportsLine.com has bought some assets of MVP.com, the online retailer with ties to basketball star Michael Jordan and hockey star Wayne Gretzky, and tapped a USA Networks unit to operate its flagship internet sports service's online store.
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Sportinglife.com has finalised a deal with MSN.co.uk, to be the sole provider of live sports content for its football and sports channels.
Business

ISL is ?no Titanic? according to its spokesman ? despite mounting industry speculation that it is in financial dire straits and one industry figure?s claim that it is the ?beginning of the end? for the Swiss marketing giant.
Business

Craigie Taylor International, the Surrey based sponsorship and PR agency, has been appointed by Beck?s to handle the PR and exploitation programme of it?s Jaguar Racing and Formula 1 sponsorship in the UK.
Media

Diageo PLC, the London-based marketer of alcoholic beverage brands such as Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Smirnoff and Tanqueray, have formulated a Super Bowl strategy to circumvent CBS's ban on hard-liquor ads.
Business

Kirch Group has sold the German television rights for the 2002 soccer World Cup finals to two German channels and that it bought the pay-TV rights for the Olympic Games between 2002 and 2008 from them.
Business

Car manufacturer Lexus has signed an exclusive naming rights deal with the 5,000-square-foot, members-only bar and restaurant on the event floor level of the First Union Center, home to the Philadelphia 76ers.
Events

Commercial UK broadcast network ITV says it intends to dramatically increase viewing figures for Premier League soccer highlights.
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sportbusiness.com has learned this morning that ENIC is hoping to announce the company?s expected buy-out of Sir Alan Sugar?s share-holding in Tottenham Hotspur Plc.deal today.
Business

Online betting SportsBetting.com has launched Football Mania - a free prediction contest on this year's NCAA College Bowl Games.
Media

Manoj Prabhakar, banned for five years by the Indian cricket board, said on Wednesday he had deserved better treatment for helping expose match-fixing.
Media

SportsLine.com CEO and founder Mike Levy cast a doubt on the value of team web sites when he told delegates it was doubtful SportsLine would renew its association with the San Francisco 49ers web site.
Media

Today sees the start of the IOC World Conference on Sport and New Media ? and you can stay up-to-date with all the latest news and views on sportbusiness.com.
Media

The National Network (TNN) has won the exclusive cable rights to nine XFL games commencing February 11, 2001 and continuing through April 8.
Business

The organisers of the Rugby League World Cup have revealed that the tournament made a profit of more than #2million ( $2.83 million )
Media

The head of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team said he was optimistic about the troubled 2004 Athens Games and he would concentrate on ensuring venue construction was on schedule during his visit.
Media

Bayern Munich's commercial manager Uli Hoeness has called for a cutback in the number of matches in the Champions League and said his club would be prepared to take less cash to play fewer games.
Business

Asian soccer promoter ProEvents Management Ltd has formed a new joint venture company with Manchester-based sports management company World Sports Solutions Ltd (?WSS?), to represent top European clubs and players in Asia.