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Sportech PLC, the London stock exchange-listed pools promotion, internet gaming, telephone betting, lotteries and lottery management company, is to launch a new sports magazine in September aimed at betting and gaming customers.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has bought up all the outdoor advertising space in Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games which will be held there in 2008 in an attempt to limit the commercialisation of the event.

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president says he will look into allegations made by a former Real Madrid official that the club paid incentives to other teams to win matches against their rivals.

The future of the British Grand Prix is expected to be decided this week when the Competition Commission hands a report to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on the future of the Silverstone circuit.

Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic have hailed a trial pay-per-view broadband broadcast a success ? despite just 30 percent of broadband subscribers watching the game.
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Rivals.net, the Chrysalis-based sports network, has appointed Clair Porteous as its first marketing manager.

The Press Association has appointed Paul Ellis as its sport picture editor and recruited a new deputy sport picture editor.

Troubled internet company Sportal is expected to win a contract to build new Australian Football League (AFL) websites for Telstra.

ESPN-owners Walt Disney Co took a 26 percent hit in fiscal third-quarter pro forma profit as the entertainment company marked lower TV ad sales and theme-park attendance, and absorbed a $95million (?107m) charge for job-cutting costs.

Shares in Watford Leisure, the company which owns the first division soccer club, rose by 25 percent on the first day of trading on the stockmarket.

Portuguese legal authorities have charged Joao Vale e Azevedo, former chairman of soccer club Benfica, with embezzlement and money laundering after a preliminary investigation into alleged misuse of funds at the club, state news agency Lusa said on Friday.

Boxing promoters Cedric Kushner Boxing (CKB), Inc plans to reverse into Zenascent, Inc, the former internet technology and e-commerce incubator company listed on New York's over the counter billboard market, as part of a merger agreement.

English Premiership soccer club Wimbledon are facing mounting opposition to their plans to relocate north to Milton Keynes.

New York's international network, many hotels and plans to build new sports arenas amounted to a strong bid to stage the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, a United States Olympic Committee (USOC) panel said.

Organisers of the first ever Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race to be held in the UK say ticket sales are on track despite having sold just 18,000 of the 52,000 tickets available.

The British Formula One Grand Prix could be scrapped unless Silverstone bosses can convince the International Automobile Federation (FIA) that it can run the event successfully.