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ABC and ESPN have bought the exclusive broadcasting rights in the US market for premier IAAF events in a three- year agreement with the IAAF and ISL Worldwide.

Soccer officials, lawyers and European Commission experts held a series of meetings on Friday in a bid to thrash out a compromise deal on a new transfer system.

UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner says soccer revenues cannot be stretched indefinitely and national associations should consider salary caps.

Eleven clubs from five of Europe's smaller nations attacked the growing gap between soccer's rich and poor on the continent and said they would unveil concrete proposals for a "Euroleague" early next year.

The European Commission has welcomed FIFA's willingness to work towards devising new soccer transfer rules, and accused critics of misrepresenting its own policy on the issue.

South Africa?s 2006 bid leader Danny Jordaan will ask FIFA to award his country the 2010 World Cup, following the controversial vote to give Germany the tournament in 2006.

An influential FIFA executive committee member has promised to stick by England at this week?s crucial vote ? a move which may see it avoid a humiliating first round exit.

Euro 2000 organisers have rejected outright suggestions from FIFA chief Sepp Blatter that the England-Germany clash on June 17 should be moved from the stadium in Charleroi for safety reasons.

Alberto S. Bichi, secretary general of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), believes that a better use of European lobbying channels could profit the European sporting industry in their day to day work.

The Bosman lawyer, Jean-Louis Dupont, has predicted a legal challenge to the territorial structure of both club and international football in the ?near future?.

The WTA Tour is close to completing a five-year title sponsorship contract worth more than $40 million with Sanex, a subsidiary of the Sara Lee Corp, according to a report in the US advertising and media magazine Brandweek.

UEFA president Lennart Johansson has said he was confident that UEFA's plans to reform their club competitions would prevent the creation of a breakaway European Super League.

Organiser of soccer?s Euro 2000 championships has revealed preparations are on schedule and that stadiums would be ready a year in advance of the kick-off.

ISL has signed a deal with adidas to be a licensee and official supplier to UEFA's Euro 2000 tournament.

Hot favourite to replace Juan Antonio Samaranch as president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, is to officially declare his candidacy next week.

Soccer's ruling bodies will press players to sign up to a revamped transfer system agreed in principle with the European Commission.