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The Scottish Premier League has signed has signed a sponsorship deal with BskyB, reportedly worth over #250,000. The broadcaster has become the SPL?s third associate sponsor and joins the Scottish Daily Express and MacDonalds, while Bank of Scotland remain title sponsors.
Events

Italian football fans will be able to watch match highlights on third-generation (3G) mobile phones from the summer of 2002, according to Hutchison 3G Italia.
Business

The Nasdaq Stock Market has signed on as the North American presenting sponsor for the Sanex WTA Tour.
Events

Germany's Kirch Group and public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have reached a television rights agreement for the next two World Cups after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder asked them to work out a deal.
Events

Formula One teams, car manufacturers and sponsors will resist any move by German media companies to shift their glamorous sport from free to pay television.
Media

Dorna has made a special presentation to motorsports governing body FIM of its marketing plans for motorcycling?s Enduro World Championship.
Media

Dynamo Tbilisi have been cleared by world soccer's governing body FIFA to resume their business activities after paying more than $240,000 in outstanding debts.
Business

The Australian Football League has confirmed that Carlton & United Breweries would replace Coca-Cola as the AFL's naming rights sponsor from this year in a four-year deal, as reported by sportbusiness.com last week.
Media

Fox Sports will temporarily give up day-to-day operations of its struggling website while executives come up with a plan to make it more appealing and efficient.
Business

Car manufacturers are considering buying a "substantial" stake in Formula One holding company SLEC, says Max Mosley, chairman of motor sport's ruling body FIA.
Events

The Arena Football League's sales and marketing entity Arena Football League Properties (AFLP) has named Marc Lowitz as vice president of Broadcast, New Media and Business Affairs.
Events

The UK government has repelled efforts by Leo Kirch to get round British legislation that protects every World Cup match from being broadcast on pay-TV.
Events

HBO.com is to launch a live interactive adjunct to HBO Sports' new 12-week talk/magazine show, On the Record with Bob Costas.
Media

Less than three weeks before tickets for the 2002 World Cup go on sale, Japan's organisers were locked in a dispute with co-host South Korea over whose name appears first.
Media

The troubled Millennium Cup soccer tournament has suffered a fresh setback with officials canceling a third-place playoff to cut losses.
Media

With only weeks to go before the launch of the XFL American football league, XFL President Basil DeVito is confident that the ?reality show wrapped inside America?s most popular game, ? will surpass original revenue forecasts.
Media

MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM), the interactive media company of Major League Baseball, has selected Dinn Mann as senior vice president and editor-in-chief of MLB.com, the official web site of Major League Baseball and its 30 club sites.
Business

Turner Broadcasting Systems is to sell its poorly performing World Championship Wrestling operation to the founders of the Classic Sports Network, now ESPN Classic.