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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.
Business

Boxing will appear on a Turner network for the first time, when lightweight champion Shane Mosley headlines a Sept. 22 Madison Square Garden fight card on cable network TNT.
Business

Cricket authorities are likely to come under pressure to increase the jurisdiction of the third umpire following the planned use of slow motion replays in non-televised matches at next month's Commonwealth Games.
Media

Childrens cabler TV company Nickelodeon will join the hoopla surrounding Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's pursuit of the single-season home run record by running daily "Home Run Record Race" vignettes each night beginning today.

Events

ABC's "Monday Night Football" is off to what's apparently its worst ratings start ever - despite hype surrounding the new early start time.
Business

Media Partners head Rodolfo Hecht has said he was encouraged by the willingness of the EU to consider the merits of his Super League proposal.
Business

German media magnate Leo Kirch has acquired the televison rights for any future fights by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson outside the United States, Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.

Business

A New Zealand syndicate backed by the Maori Tainui tribe are the new owners of the Auckland Warriors rugby league side after the city's league clubs agreed to the sale late on Tuesday.

Business

The San Francisco 49ers have quashed rumors that Dwight Clark, the club's executive vice president, is about join friend and former 49ers president Carmen Policy to help assemble the new Cleveland Browns.
Events

The New York Mets and Mike Piazza are close to a long-term contract agreement that could make the All-Star catcher the highest paid player in baseball, according to broadcast reports.

Events

FIFA concerns have 1999 Pan American Games organisers scrambling to save their soccer tournament in next summer's multi-sport extravaganza.

Business

Motor sport's ruling body has dismissed any suggestion that a media rights deal it had negotiated with racing mogul Bernie Ecclestone could be nullified by the European Commission.
Business

Organisers are considering radical reforms to the Davis Cup on the eve of its centenary in a bid to enhance its appeal and make the top players take it seriously, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has said.
Events

Reinforcing its image as South Florida's pre-eminent sports carrier, Barry Diller's local programming station WAMI-TV has bought a six-year exclusive broadcast rights to baseball's Florida Marlins.
Business

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.

Events

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.