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The FIFA Executive Committee has unveiled a new system designed to allocate tickets for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan.

Paddy Power, Ireland?s largest bookmaker, is to launch an online betting service and plans to open betting shops in the UK?s big city centres.

German sports marketing company, Global Sportnet, has extended its rights portfolio by signing a marketing contract with the most successful club in Greek football.

Nigeria will build an ultra-modern stadium in the capital Abuja for the 2003 All-African Games.

Orad Hi-Tec Systems? ?Virtual Swimming World Record Line? was used for the first time during Nine Network?s live coverage of the Sydney Olympic 2000 qualifying swimming trials.

Internet media giant America Online has formed a multiyear alliance with the National Basketball Association and the Women's National Basketball Association with the intention of increasing traffic to its Web sites NBA.com and WNBA.com.

Golf.com has launched its second joint venture based on fantasy games with Smallworld.com, an independent developer of online fantasy sports games.

Reports that a major UK soccer club has been the subject of a stake-holding bid from a leading international sports marketing company have been rebutted.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said a venue switch for the Euro 2000 match between England and Germany from the small Belgian stadium of Charleroi should be considered to minimise the risk of crowd trouble.

The Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) has signed a multi-year agreement to broadcast LIVE WNBA games to millions of viewers across Latin America.

The NFL wants to bring fans even closer to the action by introducing miniature cameras into the safety helmets of the players during preseason games.

UK media groups, NTL and Ondigital, are understood to have complained to the European Commission over the sale of the next set of live Premier League television rights, according to The Independent on Sunday newspaper.

Benfica, the leading Portuguese soccer club wants to recapitalise itself and is set to announce plans to offer up to 25 per cent to outside investors.

Senior executives of UK sports video-on-demand company VNL Sports are describing a new deal with ESPN as a turning point for the company.

British fans are set to bet more than #100 million pounds ($149m) on Euro 2000, making it the world's biggest single sports betting event, bookmakers Ladbrokes said on Friday.

Meddling councils and tourist bodies in Sydney are creating a bureaucratic nightmare for overseas television stations hoping to film in the Olympic city during the run-up to this year's Games, reports the South China Morning Post.