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US sporting goods retailer Big 5 Holdings Corp has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $115 million ( ?126m) in an initial public offering.

India's state broadcasting corporation, Prasar Bharti has won exclusive rights to broadcast the first Afro-Asian Games scheduled in New Delhi in November.

Beer giant Foster?s has signed a new deal to sponsor Formula One?s Australian Grand Prix until 2006.
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CricInfo.com, the digital cricket information company, yesterday confirmed its billionth page view in 2001 ? the first time that the site has passed this landmark in a calendar year.

The government reviews of England?s beleaguered Wembley Stadium and the national athletics stadium at Picketts Lock, both being assessed by former Prison Service director Patrick Carter, will not be available until this Friday and next week respectively.

UK broadband entertainment specialists Sportev said that 36 percent of those who visited its interactive video service paid to watch England beat Australia in the fourth Ashes Test at Headingley on Monday on its pay-per-view (PPV) highlights service.
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English Premiership soccer club Chelsea has denied it is having problems filling its #1million-a-season ($1.45m/?1.57m) Millennium Suites in the West Stand of its stadium at Stamford Bridge.

A lease needed to bring minor-league baseball back to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the 2003 season has been approved by the City Council.

The World Anti-Doping Agency will locate its permanent headquarters in Montreal, with the aim of improving the credibility and effectiveness of its war on the use of drugs in sports.

Dutch-based company Support in Sport has been contracted to re-turf the pitch in the Delle Alpi Stadium, the home of Juventus and Torino this month.

Leeds United soccer club has launched its own web channel which will allow fans to download packages and goals from every Premiership game they play in.
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Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic has struck a deal with online broadcasting specialist Servecast.
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The Philadelphia Eagles believe they have come up with a solution to the artificial turf problems that caused a pre-season game to be cancelled at the Veterans Stadium.

One of the most famous buildings in golf, the starter's box at the St Andrews Old Course, has been put up for auction this week so players can have a bigger putting green.

The finance director of English Premier League soccer club Leeds United has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that the club will sell the naming rights to its new #60million ($87m/?95m) stadium.
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Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will face Denmark's Brian Nielsen in a 10-round fight on September 8 at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, cable television carrier Showtime has said.