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Fox Sports International has launched a new all-sports channel for Central and Eastern Europe.

Beijing officials defended China's human rights record on Wednesday but conceded it faced a challenge persuading world opinion that the Chinese capital should stage the 2008 Olympic Games.

US satellite television platform DirecTV has announced that it is currently in negotiations to renew its pay-per-view distribution agreement with the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWFE).

A new online soccer gaming site, TotoPools.com, has launched in the UK to coincide with the new soccer season

Speedway Motorsports is reportedly talking to potential naming rights sponsors for the company’s Sears Point track, according to the US investment bank Bear Stern’s ‘Weekly Pit Stop’ update on stock market listed companies involved in motorsports.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is launching an Asian version of its flagship news show SportsCenter on its network in the region, ESPN Star Sports (ESS).

Ever wanted information on former baseball players? A new web site aims to keeep fans informed.

ukbetting, the online bookmaker that made its debut on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) last week, has signed a deal with troubled sports internet company Sportal for an undisclosed sum.

CricInfo.com, the digital cricket information company, has told sportbusiness.com that it has as big a chance of renewing its internet broadcasting rights to English cricket despite competing bids from the BBC and Channel 4.

A row has broken out over the sale of Sir Donald Bradman memorabilia, the value of which has soared since the Australian cricket legend died in February, aged 92.

NFL club the Denver Broncos has signed a two-year outsourced managed hosting contract with internet managers AppliedTheory.

UK broadband TV company Video Networks has become the exclusive video-on-demand partner for England’s Premier League soccer league.

Britain's leading cable companies NTL and Telewest Communications Plc have held debt restructuring talks with international banking group JP Morgan Chase, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

Southampton Leisure has recorded encouraging results for the year to May 2001 as they start the season in a new stadium.

London soccer club Arsenal has become the first club to charge visitors to its website to view highlights of its matches.

Canal Plus, the pay-TV unit of media giant Vivendi Universal and Dutch cable network United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) have confirmed that a merger of their Polish satellite television platforms has taken place.