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World athletics boss Primo Nebiolo backed on Tuesday Zurich's decision not to accept the alleged financial demands of leading sprinters Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon for the richest meeting in the sport.

NEC Australia has signed a sponsorship deal with the Western Bulldogs AFL team.

English Nationwide league soccer club Portsmouth and building contractor Try are locked in a legal battle over a #1.6 million stand the firm built at the club's Fratton park ground.

George Steinbrenner, owner of baseball's New York Yankees says he would consider staying in the Bronx if he can build a new stadium there, the Daily News reported Sunday.

German online sports services saw a short but powerful surge in usage this summer, thanks in large part to coverage of the soccer World Cup, and some momentum has endured.

The largestever J-League soccer crowd turned out on Sunday night to watch J-West beat J-East 3-1 in the mid-season All-Star game.

Nigeria's organising committee for next year's world youth soccer tournament said on Sunday they were confident FIFA would be satisfied by the country's preparations after an inspection this week.

The rugby league Super League board of directors has approved a franchise bid from Gateshead to join the competition in 1999.

The Nine Network has denied that it had to discount its sponsorship packages for the Commonwealth Games due to insufficient interest.

The $463 million Stadium Australia taking shape in western Sydney will not only be the biggest ever built for an Olympic Games, but from a business point of view, by far the best.

Over a thousand French fans visit the Stade de France each day to savour the scene of last month's World Cup triumph, a stadium official has said.

Mobile telecommunications company Ericsson has announced a three-year sponsorship with English Rugby Football Club Wasps.

American League umpire Al Clark, the focus of Major League Baseball's investigation into the sale of baseballs, said to have been used in David Wells' perfect game in May, has denied any involvement.

A total of 79 million people on the continent are now logging on to the Internet, according to a new Neilsen survey, 36% more than the 58 million who were Internet users in September 1997.

Executives from Fox Group are contemplating tearing down the 36-year-old Dodger Stadium and building a new one, after cost estimates for a major renovation came in much higher than expected.

Poland's government has approved a bid by Zakopane to host the Winter Olympics in 2006.