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South Africa's 2006 World Cup bid committee officials will meet their Brazil counterparts next week to discuss a possible deal over Brazilian backing for South Africa's bid.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said the 2006 Word Cup finals should go to Africa if one of the continent's two bidding countries can meet all the conditions required to stage the event.
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South Africa wants the 2006 soccer World Cup, deserves it and is more than ready to make it work, the country's newspapers declared on Thursday as a crucial FIFA inspection got underway in Johannesburg.
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Tennis tournaments in the US and Brazil will continue this week despite Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.
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Beijing combined evocative images of ancient and modern China in its final bid for the 2008 Olympics on Friday just hours before the International Olympics Committee (IOC) votes on the host.
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Colombia will host next month's Copa America as planned despite a recent spate of bombings there, according to South American Football Confederation (CSF) officials.
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Figures released by national industry organisation Asociacion Brasilena de Telecomunicaciones por Suscripcion (ABTA) have shown that the number of pay-TV subscribers in Brazil rose by 3 percent in this year’s first quarter.
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If News Corp Ltd. succeeds in its bid to take acquire Hughes Electronics Corp., the Australian news giant could gain control of a merged Latin America satellite television entity, a source at Mexico's Grupo Televisa has said.

The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro wants to organise the 2007 Pan American Games.

The popularity of the FA Cup is expected to be revived after the Football Association announced plans to play all four FA Cup quarter-finals on the same day.

Brazil's national soccer team, who have won the World Cup four times, appear set for an unprecedented win over one of their most difficult opponents: the eight o'clock soap opera.