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YANKEES NO FANS OF REVENUE SHARING
A Major League Baseball committee report suggesting that the all the league's teams share 40-50 percent of their local revenue is likely to receive a cool reaction from the New York Yankees.
SFX AND U.S. WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM PARTNER FOR NATIONAL TOUR
SFX Sports Group and SFX Family Entertainment are to conduct a post-Sydney 12-game women's indoor soccer tour, featuring eligible members of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, and members of the 1999 U.S. World Cup Team.
OUR VILLAGE IS BEST EVER, SYDNEY OFFICIALS SAY
The athletes' village for the Sydney Olympics, with a dining area to serve 5,000 people at one sitting, has been acclaimed by Australian Games officials as the best ever.
CARDIFF SET TO HOST FOOTBALL LEAGUE FINALS DURING WEMBLEY REBUILD
Cardiff?s Millennium Stadium is set to be confirmed as the host for a number of key soccer games while Wembley Stadium is demolished and rebuilt.
CHOICESEAT ADDS TO EXECUTIVE ROSTER
ChoiceSeat, the provider of in-stadia interactive entertainment networks, has named three additions to their executive roster.
WORLD CUP ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHIEF QUITS
The head of South Korea's 2002 World Cup organising committee has resigned for personal reasons, a committee spokesman has confirmed.
BORIS BECKER, PIXELPARK FORM INTERNET PLATFORM
Three-times Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker is to act as front man for a new internet sports platform venture being launched by Pixelpark AG, Germany's biggest web designer.
ATHLETICS SITE RUNS TO MILLION HITS MARK
UK Athletics is celebrating after its official web site increased its number of hits five times over since the start of the year.
EUROBET LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE GAMBLING SERVICE
Eurobet is launching a new sports wagering site ? and is kicking it off to coincide with the traditional curtain raiser for the English domestic football season.
SKY GETS ENGLAND GAMES
UK satellite and digital broadcaster BSkyB is to show this fall?s England soccer internationals against France and Italy exclusively live on its Sky Sports service.
ENGLAND WC QUALIFIER TO GO PPV
The Finnish Football Association has sold the UK rights for the World Cup qualifier between Finland and England to the Digital Broadcasting Company - paving the way for the first pay-per-view broadcast of an England international soccer match.
FAST TRACK RECRUITS FORMER DOME SPONSORSHIP EXEC
Alan Pascoe, group chairman of sports consultancy Fast Track, has recruited Marc Hope, sponsorship manager of the London Dome?s New Millennium Experience Company as head of business development.
SPEEDO LAUNCHES WEB SITE IN RUN UP TO OLYMPICS
Speedo International is making a real splash at German trade fair ISPO in Munich with the launch of Fastskin.com.
TOOL SUPPLIER EXTENDS NASCAR SPONSORSHIP
The Sears, Roebuck and Co-owned Craftsmen tool brand has extended its status as the ?Official Tools of NASCAR ? until 2005.
NTL ADVANCES ON FRENCH MARKET
NTL has agreed to partner Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity to acquire France Telecom?s 49.9% stake in Noos, France?s leading broadband company. The move should create a powerful new player in competition for sports content in France.
COSTA RICA HITS SPORTS BETTING JACKPOT.
Costa Rica has set itself up as the offshore gambling capital of the world with large quantities of US cash entering the country in the lead up to the start of the American football season
BRAZILIAN CLUB LAUNCHES WEB SITE AS PART OF NEW SPORT & MEDIA NETWORK
Brazilian soccer club Corinthians has launched a new official club web site ? to form part of the PSN.com network.
OLYMPIC TICKET PUBLIC RELATIONS STUNT FALLS FLAT
The Sydney Games organising committee (SOCOG) is trying to put a positive spin on things following a ticket delivery public relations exercise went awry.