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Boxing promoter Don King said British boxer Lennox Lewis has signed a contract with him to challenge WBC and IBF world heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman to a rematch.

The ATP, the governing body of the men?s professional tennis circuit, has launched a new business and marketing strategy following the demise of ISL Worldwide, the rights holders since 2000.

The NFL is claiming a yet-to-be-built stadium in downtown Detroit will be the most unique and innovative sports complex in the country.

Fox Sports Net has signed a deal with LodgeNet Entertainment which will see the broadcaster?s array of digital channels installed in hotels around the US.

US sports network ESPN is to diversify its range of content after its newly created Original Entertainment Division announced a raft of initiatives including sports-based reality TV shows and a made-for-television sports movie.

A mystery bombing campaign means Colombia could lose South America's biggest soccer tournament and deal a blow to President Andres Pastrana's attempts to show progress in his quest for peace.

After a week of accusations and counter accusations, the FIFA ISL/ISMM crisis took another turn at the weekend with the revelations that ISL/ISMM had received a Sfr277m($155.9m) syndicated loan in 1999 from Swiss bank UBS and that FIFA withdrew support for a Sfr700m($349m) bond issue that the bankrupt marketing agency was hoping to help keep itself afloat.

The UK?s Singer & Friedlander Football Fund, the first investment fund dedicated to football related businesses, is to change its name to the S&F Global, Media and Leisure fund.

Rival cable television broadcasters HBO and Showtime are negotiating to present a fight between former champions Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis.

Europe?s leading car-makers met last week in Rome to discuss plans to set up a motor racing competition to rival Formula One.

Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar has signed a five-year contract worth an estimated 800m rupees ($17m) with sports management company WorldTel.

UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV attracted a peak of 7.8 million viewers for Saturday?s English FA Cup soccer final, with an average of 6.8 million over the entire match.

Pay-TV and terrestrial broadcasters will soon be battling it out to win the rights show live matches and highlights of Scottish soccer Premier League matches after current contracts run out at the end of next season.

NTL, the UK?s largest cable telecoms company which boasts 8.5m subscribers and has a 10 percent stake in English Premiership soccer clubs Newcastle United, Leicester City and Aston Villa, said earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation rose by about 32 percent to $124m for the three months to March 31 compared with the previous quarter.

Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation is on the verge of becoming the largest global satellite network after lengthy negotiations for control of US broadcaster DirecTV were said to have entered an `advanced? stage by DirecTV?s parent company Hughes Electronics.

GG Media has stepped up its bid to broadcast horseracing in the UK in competition with the Go Racing consortium, by launching an advertising campaign.