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Events

Africa?s hopes of hosting the World Cup in 2010 were put on hold after the continent became the victim of a second soccer stadium tragedy in less than a month.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid is close to finalising a deal for the sale of its city-centre training facilities which will mean the club clears its huge debt of more than $250 million in one fell swoop.
Business

The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) is considering options to raise more than #100 million ($144m) for investment in rugby, including a possible stock market flotation. The RFU has asked Hawkpoint Partners, the merchant bank, to advise it on ways to raise the funds.
Stadia

The fall out from the Wembley stadium debacle could claim a high profile victim today when the Premier League meets to discuss the position of the former national stadium and current Chelsea chairman Ken Bates? future as its representative on the Football Association?s board.
Stadia

Bathurst has won out over Wagga Wagga as the venue for the return of Australian rugby league?s City versus Country match in June.
Business

New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has hinted that new baseball stadia for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets would be built soon.
Stadia

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will move the Florida Marlins out of South Florida or abolish it altogether if it doesn't get a new ballpark, according to newspaper reports.
Business

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern's pet project to build an 80,000-seater national sports stadium was in fresh trouble on Thursday as coalition partners and opposition politicians lined up to criticise the plan.
Stadia

A German man from Dresden died yesterday from head wounds sustained as he tried to escape from rioting fans at a friendly match, police said.
Stadia

The mascots for the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea will be called "Ato", "Nik" and "Kaz", Korean officials has revealed.
Media

Greyhound racing will become the only spectator sport in British history to launch a generic television advertising campaign. Three months worth of adverts will appear on Sky from Saturday with the aim to encourage viewers to visit one of the country?s 32 greyhound tracks.
Business

Baseball?s official site, MLB.com, will this week launch two new features it hopes will raise its customer confidence after several early-season gaffes.
Business

The City of Pontiac in Michigan has subpoenaed the National Football League and sued Wayne County to wrest information about the Detroit Lions' new stadium and how it landed the 2006 Super Bowl.
Business

Entrepreneur Richard Branson is to sponsor the cartoon strip soccer team in the UK's Sun newspaper. His Virgin Mobile brand name is to be placed on the shirts of Warbury Town, the fictional team in the paper?s daily cartoon, Striker.
Stadia

The Florida Marlins baseball team has hit a major roadblock in its bid to secure a new Miami stadium.
Business

In an attempt to stamp out hooliganism among Rugby League fans in Australia, the New South Wales Police and the National Rugby League (NRL) have drawn up a plan to impose life bans on unruly fans.
Stadia

The Boston Red Sox?s chances of obtaining the city approval needed to proceed with their plan for a new home stadium at Fenway Park look bleak after a recent meeting between the team and city officials.
Stadia

Dot coms are continually asking themselves what drives sport on the internet. Well, Arizona baseball pitcher Randy Johnson may well have the answer.