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The Australian Football League has confirmed that Carlton & United Breweries would replace Coca-Cola as the AFL's naming rights sponsor from this year in a four-year deal, as reported by sportbusiness.com last week.
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Les McDonald, president of the International Triathlon Union (ITU), the world governing body of the Olympic sport, has been forced into a court case in Vancouver, British Columbia, over allegations that recent elections to his organisation were fixed, with some national federations being denied their right to vote.
Events

Irish public television broadcaster RTE has seen off a rival bid from satellite giant BSkyB to clinch the television rights to the Six Nations rugby tournament.

UEFA may introduce a competition for national teams to take the place of friendly internationals, general secretary Gerhard Aigner said.

The International Rugby Board withdrew its threat to expel England from world rugby when it broadly approved on Monday an agreement between the Rugby Football Union and 12 leading clubs.

Premier golf tournament, the Ryder Cup, will be staged at the Kildare Hotel and Country Club, near Dublin in 2005, it has been officially announced.

Business

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has been fined 50,000 Swiss francs ($32,000) for not playing their European championship qualifier against Yugoslavia on June 5.
Business

The importance of sport to almost every revenue stream in British satellite broadcaster BSkyB's digital offering has been highlighted by the release of its annual results for the year ended June 30, 2001.
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Ireland's Six Nations games with England on March 24 and with Scotland on April 7 have been postponed because of Irish fears over the threat of Britain's foot-and-mouth disease.
Stadia

The International Cricket Council has approved South Africa?s proposals for the format of the 2003 World Cup.
Events

All finalists at both world outdoor and indoor athletics championships will receive prize money from next year.
Business

Austria's soccer federation has been approached by Switzerland's head of state Adolf Ogi to discuss a possible joint-bid for Euro 2008, according to local media reports.
Business

The Rugby World Cup is expected to inject more than IR#50 million ($66.35 million) into the Irish economy, the Irish Football Union estimates.
Business

A bruising three-month battle for the FIFA presidency reaches a climax on Monday when Sepp Blatter and Lennart Johansson contest the biggest job in soccer.
Media

England, already facing sanctions from rugby union's governing body in a club versus country row, have been told to stop disrupting the Five Nations championship.
Stadia

An Australian entrepreneur has offered to pay for David Beckham and Posh Spice's honeymoon if the English soccer star agrees to play for Manchester United on their pre-season tour of Australia.
Business

Power Leisure, the Irish-based bookmaker, has put additional pressure on the Irish government to further cut betting duty after announcing plans to move its online and telephone operations to the UK where the nine percent betting tax on punters will be scrapped on October 6.
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Irish soccer fixtures have been wiped out for a second successive weekend because of Britain's foot-and-mouth crisis, football authorities said on Tuesday.