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A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.

BSkyB has signed a long-term agreement with Tottenham Hotspur to design, develop and maintain the club?s Internet site.

The Australian Football League has launched a number of specially tailored Internet packages ? giving its large overseas fan base the opportunity to access video highlights and audio broadcasts of games.

Online sports media company Total Sports has teamed up with Air2Web ? a wireless web-based infrastructure services provider - to create a wireless application for sports fans to receive updated scores and news on their digital cellular phones.

English soccer fans are to lobby the British government at Westminster today after demanding more say in the running of the sport.

UK terrestrial digital broadcaster ONdigital has secured exclusive live coverage of the Tennis Masters Series and the Tennis Masters Cup.

NBA.com TV Daily ? a new global video service providing updates and highlights of NBA action from the night before ? has gone live today.

Celtic could soon leave the Scottish Premier League and join a new Atlantic League aimed at leading clubs who dominate Europe's second tier competitions, a club spokesman has said.

UK online betting service Bluesq.com has signed a $650,000 deal with sport-only radio station talkSPORT.

The head of the sports group of the European Broadcasting Union, Stefan Kuerten, has warned that football risked "overkill" on television and was in danger of propelling itself towards self-destruction.

English Premier League clubs are expected to suceed in winning the `deferred rights? to their games when the contract for TV rights to the lucrative league is renegotiated later this year.

Coral, the UK's third largest bookmaker is planning to float to take advantage of the high ratings attached to Internet-related businesses.

Alan Gold has been named NFL vice president of international media, following the departure from the post of long term incumbent Anne Murray.

Sports. Com, the sports Internet company, has signed an agreement with Motorola and BT Cellnet to provide its sports content over WAP-enabled mobile phones.

The European Hockey League has been suspended over disappointing television distribution deals.

The first dedicated worldwide football betting Internet service has been launched.