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Siemens Mobile Phones has launched what is believed to be the world's biggest WAP service providing match results, fixtures and news for football fans across Europe.

Extreme Sports Channel, the first ever 24 hour extreme sports content channel, is to launch in the UK, available free of charge to digital satellite TV subscribers.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has welcomed the UK Government's decision to invest #750 million in new sports facilities.

The English Football Association has finally given permission for a foreign broadcaster to set up its own television cameras for coverage of an international match.

Omega Networks has launched www.ticket2sports.com a broadband, online sports resource providing fans with a virtual ticket to video-on-demand for amateur sports.

Al-Ahram, the Egyptian international media group, has signed a deal with EPSIS to introduce virtual advertising to its soccer broadcasts.

NBC, already feeling the heat from disappointing TV ratings for its Olympics coverage, has suffered another blow, when traffic to its Olympics web site reportedly fell 35 percent among home users in one day.

New York Gov. George Pataki has balked at letting the Yankees baseball team quit their fabled home in the Bronx and move into a gargantuan new stadium which the mayor of New York City wants to build on Manhattan's West Side.

The New York Giants have replaced the centre section of its new grass field, prior to Sunday night?s game against the Washington Redskins.

The Atlanta Sports Council has appointed Wain Kellum, CEO of e-business solution provider Extreme Logic, to the executive board of the first annual Horizon Awards set up to honour leaders and innovators in sports business and web sports.

Compaq Computer Corp is looking to put its name on the San Jose Arena, home to the San Jose Sharks.

Strong interest in the Olympics is driving up the audience of New Zealand websites, according to research company AC Nielsen.

Internet TV company Kamera Interactive is to deliver broadband broadcasts from the Olympic Games for Swedish communication company Bredbandsbolaget (B2).

Internet marketing company 3dvillage.com and CART team PacWest Racing Group, have signed an exclusive marketing partnership to create the world's first on-line, interactive 3D race weekend experience.

Disappointing viewing figures for NBC?s Olympic broadcasts have been dramatically offset by page views on the internet.

Sydney Games organisers shut the main Olympic Park to people without tickets or day passes, saying the site could not cope with the growing crush.