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SportsYA!, the Spanish and Portuguese language sports portal, has entered into a three-year sponsorship agreement with Uruguayan soccer club Atletico Penarol.

The Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts lawmakers have reached a tentative deal on financing for a new downtown baseball stadium that is projected to cost roughly $600 million.

Online sports content firm Broadband Sports has appointed a new chief financial officer.

British Culture Secretary Chris Smith has asserted that government funding for sports will be doubled over three years to get the country's sport back on its feet.

A UK-based galvanisng company has won a contract to create the seating structure for a national football stadium in the remote Faeroe Islands.

The UK Government has earmarked a multi-million pound funding package to ease the cash crisis faced by organisers of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, according to UK press reports.

IBM has begun a new version of its Olympic fan-mail service (www.fanmail.olympic.ibm.com), expected to handle 1million e-mails for athletes during the Sydney Games.

The $280 million revamp of Brisbane?s Lang Park football ground has been given the green light by the Queensland State Government leaving the final go-ahead to the Brisbane City Council.

Golf Entertainment has launched GolfBZ.com, an internet business to business resource for golf course, golf range and related manufacturing, apparel, equipment and accessory companies within the golf industry.

Sportal has signed a live webcast deal with the Emirates World Series Racing Championship and Ascot Racecourse to show one of the most prestigious events in the English racing calendar

Milan's Arena, the oldest surviving Italian stadium to have staged first-class soccer, is to be home to a football club for the first time since World War Two.

AFL club Melbourne will play two matches in Brisbane each year for the next five years after shifting its home game to the Gabba for financial reasons.

Hussey Seating Company and Seiko Epsom Corp, the global technology company, are to co-develop `an interactive media seating solution? for the sports industry.

Sportal.co.uk is extending its offer of providing free SMS text results for the remainder of the Formula One season.

Golden Bear Golf, Inc. has completed its ?going private? merger with its wholly-owned subsidiary, G.B. Golf Corp.

Quokka Sports, the online digital sports content provider, has agreed to acquire sports internet company Total Sports.