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English Premiership soccer club Leicester City today unveiled their ambitious blueprint to fill the club's new 32,000 all-seater stadium.

Espanyol and Barcelona Promotions are seeking to renew the contract Espanyol has with the Catalan government committee, BP for use of the Olympic Stadium for home soccer games.

Trans World International (TWI) has signed a deal with the Kenyan Cricket Association (KCA) to develop television, new media and sponsorship rights.

US television network, The Golf Channel expects to cross the 40 million subscriber mark during the fourth quarter of this year.

Media group Kirch has won its ongoing rights battle with German public broadcaster ARD after a Munich state court rejected the latter?s bid for the right to air footage of Bundesliga soccer games before they appeared on rights holder Kirch?s Sat.1.

Turner Sports Interactive and animation development company SportsBlast have signed a deal to launch a new animated series based on professional stock car racing.

MLB Advanced Media, Sun Microsystems and iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, have formed a technology and marketing partnership they hope will grow MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball.

Scottish soccer clubs Dundee and Dundee United have jointly submitted a multi-million pound bid to become a Euro 2008 venue should the tournament be awarded to Scotland.

CART?s financial gloom looks set to continue after the latest financial figures revealed a worrying dip in revenues and sponsorship.

The Continental Basketball Association?s (CBA) name and logo has been sold to the owner of former CBA club Grand Rapids Hoops for $16,000 (?18,000).
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English Premiership soccer club Aston Villa reported a profit of #138,000 ($197,000/?225,000) for the year ending May 31 compared with a loss of #4.9million ($7m/?8m) last year but player wages rose by 16 per cent during last season.

ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.
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The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is looking to broadcast all of its tournaments over the internet.

Chrysalis, the media company which produces ITV?s coverage of Formula One in the UK, is looking to sell its minority stakes in two of its internet investments and pump the money from the disposals into its wholly owned internet sports network Rivals.net.

Germany has a good chance of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games, according to newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge.

The top US aviation official says all sides appear open to resolving a dispute over a proposed stadium for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League that would sit two miles from a runway at the nation's fifth-busiest airport.