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Francis Baron, chief executive of the English Rugby Union, aims to make England the number one rugby nation in the world as part of the unions soon to be announced 8-year Strategic Plan.

The NFL has agreed a new scheduling format for the league, to come into effect when the Houston Texans join the league in 2002.

European online auction house QXL.com Plc has launched QXL.tv to deliver live auction programming via television and the internet.

Internet holding company First Capital International, Inc. has become an official supplier of timepieces for the Nabisco Championship Golf Tournament for 2001.

The Victorian state cricket team has joined forces with sports internet group Sportal Australia to produce a new cricket web-site at www.bushrangers.com.au.

American League baseball teams, the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals have signed a letter of intent to share a $45 million spring training complex beginning in the 2002 or 2003 season.

Barcelona FC bought up chunks of Wembley history in a memorabilia auction which raised more than #25,000 ($36,300), organisers said.

Organisers of the Rugby League World Cup are hoping for an upturn in the event?s fortunes after dire weather and disruptions to UK train services caused chaos over the first weekend of matches.

DallasNews.com's football e-mail newsletters, with a combined subscriber-base of over 78,000 people, are now available in Spanish.

A former jockey has called on UK racecourses to replace its starting stalls over safety concerns.

Tickets to the new Wembley Stadium could have a minimum price-tag of #50 ($73) according to supporter groups.

Australian-based design and planning firm Hassell has formed an alliance with HOK, the world's biggest sports facility architectural firm.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Robert Steadward has declared the Paralympic Games, the best Games ever, as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch had done on October 1. Steadward said the Paralympics had had been "an absolutely outstanding event".

Sportal, the UK-based multi-lingual sports content portal, has become the primary sports provider for ONnet, the television internet service of the digital terrestrial TV platform, Ondigital.

The Australian Football League (AFL) is creating a new sponsorship structure, which could result in the exit of McDonald?s as a sponsorship partner.

Houston?s new football stadium has sold its naming rights in a 32-year deal.