Stadia
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Greece recently introduced legislation aimed at speeding up flagging construction work for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Events

Pay-TV group BSkyB has received favourable UK press reviews of their interactive soccer service, which was made available on Sunday when Arsenal played champions Manchester United. Most reports focussed on the simplicity of use of the new service.
Media

Broadcaster Grupo Televisa said on Tuesday it was looking for buyers for one of the three Mexican first division soccer clubs it owns.
Business

UFA Sport has made a 12-year equity investment in Italian Serie B club, Sampdoria. The deal is believed to be worth between $50m-$60m over 12 years
Media

TVNZ, Loral Skynet and Warner Bros. have joined the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA).
Business

The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.
Business

Total Sports, a provider of online coverage of college sports, has added
Business

Freeserve has agreed a two-year worldwide deal for Greg Rusedski to endorse its free Internet services. The deal comes just as Rusedski, who is currently ranked number nine in the world (ATP Tour), prepares for the start of the US Open tennis tournament.
Events

The Australian Football League (AFL) has agreed a five-year deal for vision, audio and text rights for AFL content across online and wireless technologies with Telstra.
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Business

UK-based Screenco have created a 21 metre wide LED banner at the 68,000-capacity stadium of German Bundesliga team FC Kaiserslautern using 21 Lighthouse LVP20 20mm pixel pitch modules.
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Business

It was the Christmas that wasn't on Thursday as a New Jersey Assembly committee cancelled a crucial hearing scheduled on a $355million (?397.09m) Newark stadium bill that was loaded with all kinds of goodies for other areas of the state.
Stadia

English Premier League soccer club Leeds United will announce today if they are to leave Elland Road for a new 50,000-seater stadium to be built on the outskirts of the city.
Business

Venator Group Inc., parent of the Foot Locker athletic shoe chain, said sales in the first month of the third quarter are running above expectations and the company expects to meet earnings estimates for the third quarter and the full year.
Media

Microsoft?s internet portal MSN has signed a deal with ESPN.com to deliver to consumers access to ESPN's online sports content through the MSN network.
Business

Sears Point Raceway, the San Francisco market motorsports facility owned by Speedway Motorsports, has reported an upswing in corporate business during the 2001 season.
Stadia

Manchester United are to conduct their own investigation into ticket pricing after a television programme in the UK found that it had to pay up to five times the face value for two match tickets bought via the internet.
Media

Sportinglife.com, the UK?s multi-sports website, has joined forces with Amstel, Europe?s second largest beer brand, to produce a site which will allow soccer fans to follow the UEFA Champions League over the next eight months.
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Business

Three companies are battling out for the right to take over from Texaco as the #5million-a-year ($7.2m/?8.1m) sponsor of ITV?s Formula One coverage in the UK.