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English soccer's premier league has said top clubs could be lured away to a European super league if it loses a landmark legal hearing into the way television rights to its matches are sold.

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The Italian government are to prepare new rules limiting a single digital television broadcaster from owning more than 60 percent of rights to the total amount of football games, an Italian newspaper has reported.
Media

Olympic boss Juan Antonio Samaranch has painted a depressing picture of sport's drug problems when he opened a world conference on doping.

Events

An Australian IOC member alleged to have taken his family on four free holidays to Salt Lake City has angrily denied any wrongdoing and accused the city's Board of Ethics of defamation.

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A season-long experiment of using two referees to control matches is likely to be approved at the annual meeting of soccer's law-making International Board on Saturday.

Business

The Nine Network in Australia is expected to retrench up to 25 sports staff after confirming that it will axe its two long-running weekend sports programmes.
Business

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's UK pay-TV operators BSkyB are anxiously watching recent moves in the cable and telephony sectors in the US and UK.
Business

Cablevision Systems, owners of the NBA New York Knicks, the NHL New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden, have reported a narrower-than-expected loss, boosted by strength in its cable televsion and programming businesses.
Media

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was among several speakers who called on the IOC to be more open, accountable and representative as the IOC opened its debate on ways to change post the Salt Lake City vote-buying scandal.
Business

The BBC are likely to pay approximately #50m to retain the live broadcast rights for Wimbledon according to UK press reports. The five year deal would replace their current #30m contract which expires on July 4th.
Media

The Rugby Football Union is unlikely to renew its UK television contract with BSkyB according to UK press reports.
Events

Soccer may be the global game but UEFA have updated regulations that prevent "foreign" matches being broadcast at peak times during domestic programmes.
Media

British leisure company ENIC Plc has announced it has sold part of its interest in the Greek football club AEK PAE (AEK Athens) to NetMed BV, a subsidiary of US-listed media group MIH Limited .
Events

A landmark London court ruling expected on Wednesday is set to break pay television giant British Sky Broadcasting's (BSkyB) stranglehold on coverage of English Premier League soccer, according to London's the Independent on Sunday newspaper.
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German media group Kirch has agreed to buy Swiss sports rights marketing company CWL Telesport & Marketing AG in a move to expand its international soccer business.
Business

England's Rugby Football Union (RFU) is looking to reorganise itself along commercial lines in a move which could see it launch its own entertainment division, according to UK press reports.
Business

CBS and the NCAA are in talks to extend their broadcast rights agreement to the Division I basketball tournament.
Business

Media research firm, Paul Kagan Associates (PKA), has reported that average NHL player salaries have increased faster than for any other major league sport over the past seven years