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The English Premier League is to make a ruling over whether British Sky Broadcasting can keep a stake of more than 10 percent in champions Manchester United while also holding shares in Premiership rival Leeds United ? the latest stage in a long-running saga over media company ownership.
Business

Major League Soccer (MLS) had made a number of changes to its format and rules, as well as its matchday and broadcast schedules, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Daily Bulletin.
Events

UK broadcaster Sky Sports has won the exclusive live rights to the next two Ryder Cups between Europe and the United States.
Events

Italian champions AC Milan will launch their own television channel in January, the club has announced.
Events

The co-founder of Broadcast.com has struck a deal to buy the Dallas Mavericks, according to a report in USA Today.
Business

Nike Inc.'s corporate Web site, www.nikebiz.com , has received the Brooks New Media national SITED Award for Best Corporate web Site.
Business

Several private equity firms are looking into the possibility of competing for Premier League broadcast rights, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.
Business

Sponsorship value will double to $50 billion by 2010, or around 8.5% of global advertising spend, according to a recent survey.
Business

British soccer fans may have a case to block media giants muscling into their clubs as they fight to bring the game back to its grass roots, a legal consultant told a conference on Thursday.
Business

Malaysia's Sports Ministry will market the main stadium, indoor stadium and other facilities built for the Commonwealth Games to those wishing to use them after September, the New Stratits Times reported.
Events

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has become the latest to sign up as a rights holder for the KL Commonwealth Games.
Media

A Paris sports bookshop is turning its soccer department into a poetry section during the World Cup finals as a protest against the big spending and media extravaganza surrounding the tournament.
Business

Coca-Cola Co. and the National Basketball Association have unveiled a four-year marketing plan to cross-promote Coke's Sprite soft drink and the NBA as part of an ongoing global marketing partnership.
Media

Dorna, the Spanish company which owns the marketing and commercial rights to the Motorcycle Road Racing Grand Prix has been bought by a British group, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Events

Optus Communications is liquidating its pay-TV sports channels, and is renegotiating its sports broadcast rights, putting football coverage in jeopardy.
Business

The Seven Network is launching its new "virtual signage" technology during the telecast on 11 July, 1998, of the Bledisloe Cup rugby union broadcast.
Media

American wrestlers will attend an international tournament in Iran in September, months after a groundbreaking visit by a U.S. team which launched exchanges between the two hostile countries.
Media

The doping scanadal which threatens the commercial credibility of the troubled Tour de France has flared again after French authorities raided the hotel of Dutch team TVM after the race's 16th stage taking four riders for medical tests.