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The “Fan Fest” outdoor screening areas being set up in Sydney for this year's football World Cup by FIFA and the local government are costing A$7 million in taxpayer money.
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The title match of the 2010 Euroleague Basketball tournament has reported strong television audiences in the home countries of the finalists.
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The team bidding to take the World Cup to England in 2018 has said it could create the most commercially successful World Cup ever, with revenues of nearly £3 billion.
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Major League Baseball team the New York Mets are suffering falling attendances, despite the attraction of their new $800 million stadium, Citi Field..
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The UK's new government will not rule out cutting the budget of the London 2012 Olympic Games, as it sets about reducing the UK's public spending by £6 billion.
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The England and Wales county cricket teams considering franchising the Indian Premier League to the UK have explored a “get out” from their £300 million domestic television deal with pay-broadcaster BSkyB.
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This year's London marathon had a record number of starters and finishers, the Tokyo marathon was nearly nine times oversubscribed, and figures from the US show that 2009 was another record year of growth for road running.
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Russia has won the right to host the World Cup of Sevens Rugby in 2013, the biggest event in the sport.
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The New South Wales government says it is in negotiations to bring the Goodwood Festival of Speed, MotoGP and Superbikes racing to Sydney.
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WWE’s EVP International, Andrew Whitaker on the challenges of delivering one of the most popular global brands in the entertainment industry and a $130 million business.
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Eurostar, the high-speed rail company operating between the UK and Paris and other European destinations, has become a sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Bill Mummery, executive director of online betting company SBOBET, has joined a panel of experts set to discuss the role of betting in Asia's sports industry at this year's Soccerex Asian Forum.
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France's Ligue de football professionnel (LFP) has announced plans to launch its own pay-television channel showing live matches.
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England's Football League clubs have accepted the Premier League's plans for increased parachute payments of £48 million over four years, up from the current £32 million.
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Bollywood producers organising the opening ceremony of this year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi have reacted angrily to a plan to move the start time for the event forward to suit Australian broadcasters.
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The brewer SABMiller Plc will introduce a new beer container at this year's football World Cup that it says will reduce waste and reduce missile throwing at sports events.
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The New York Times has published details of New York's bid to stage the Super Bowl in 2014.
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A spokesman for the Chinese businessman thought to be interested in buying Premier League club Liverpool gave a mysterious response to a Reuters request for information the matter, that seems to suggest a face-to-face meeting between the two parties could be about to happen.
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There were words of encouragement for Germany's non-football sports rightsholders yesterday from the CEO of the market's biggest satellite operator, Sky Deutschland, who said it was his company's “responsibility” to help grow secondary sports in the country, as it seeks growth in its business.
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UEFA president Michel Platini has said Germany or Hungary could be asked to provide venues for the Euro 2012 football championships if Ukraine fails to show progress on its preparations for the event by the end of this month.
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A crowd of 77,803 watched the opening match of this year's ice hockey World Championships between Germany and the USA in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Friday.
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Video interviews with former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, and sports stars Ian Thorpe and Rahul Dravid are among the content on SportAccord's YouTube channel, following last month's event in Dubai.
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England football team manager Fabio Capello has endorsed and helped establish a new player performance rating system which was launched today in a press conference at the London Stock Exchange.
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FIFA executive committee member Michel D'Hooghe has been announced as a speaker at this year's Leaders in Football conference.
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FIFA has been forced to defend itself against accusations of heavy-handedness after launching 2,500 legal actions around the world to protect its World Cup brand, including 450 in South Africa.
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The Twenty20 World Cup is being given the thumbs-up by local and travelling fans, pleased at the low ticket prices and relaxed attitude to what they can bring to eat and drink at stadiums.
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The weekend saw two reports of sponsorship woe for Formula One, as tyre company Michelin said it would only return to the sport if more than one supplier could compete, and Michael Schumacher's personal marketing manager admitted that his lacklustre return to the track is failing to ignite merchandise sales.
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Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi and sports marketing company IMG have threatened legal action over claims by England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke that Modi encouraged English county teams to form a breakaway competition.
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Jock Hobbs, the chairman of both New Zealand Rugby Union and Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd, has left both his posts after being diagnosed with a form of leukaemia.
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Gerard Houllier, technical director at the French Football Federation, and Albert Capellas, senior youth coordinator at FC Barcelona have joined the line-up of speakers at this year's Soccerex Asian Forum.