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Four foreign soccer players in Singapore have been arrested in connection with a local match-fixing probe, according to a local media report.

A sponsored yacht in the BT Global Challenge 2000-2001 race is changing its name following a merger between two UK-based finance firms.

Natal Rugby Union has become the first South African venue to select the Talent Arena Sports Management software from UK-based Software4Sport.

The International Football Channel (TIFC), the all-soccer programming network, is concluding agreements with one or more strategic partners; a move which secures the network?s objective of delivering its 24-hour coverage to Spanish-speaking television viewers.

SportsLine.com, the online sports media company and publisher of CBS SportsLine.com, has reached an agreement with the NFL for SportsLine.com to produce Superbowl.com and be the exclusive provider of the official fantasy football products for the NFL.

Moldova's soccer association has denied a report that it had been offered $1 million to renovate the country's main stadium by UEFA or that any funds from such an amount had been used for earlier repairs.

SportingAuction.com, the online auction site for new brand-name goods, and The Sporting News Online (TSN) have launched a co-branded auction site that will allow visitors to TSN's website to bid on sports equipment from SportingAuction.

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Dan Patrick now has a signature platform on four different media with the launch this week of his own web site (http://espn.go.com/danpatrick/) to accompany his presence on ESPN, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Radio

Golf champion Tiger Woods has been summoned to appear before a Screen Actors Guild trial board to explain why he shot a car commercial during the union's strike against the advertising industry.

Entertainment, sports and media group ENIC plc has offered to buy most of the 40% stake in Premier League soccer club Tottenham Hotspur held by its chairman Alan Sugar, the Independent on Sunday reported.

The 2001 British Speedway Grand Prix will be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Former ISL senior legal counsel Jay Gillman-Wells is quitting to join a leading UK-based law firm.

Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield will be wearing the logo of a minority-owned family-orientated cable network on his shorts when he next steps into the ring on August 12th.

The English Football Association?s commercial director, Phillip Carling, has quit his job to take up a role at global sports marketing giant Octagon.

The New York Yankees are in negotiations with IMG subsidiary Trans World International for a ten-year, $838m TV deal.

A new 24-hour soccer channel will be launched this year for the Asian market with the content initially available to audiences in Greater China, Hong Kong and Bejing.