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UEFA?s head of club competitions has quit the organisation to team up with the G14 pressure group, comprising of Europe?s leading soccer clubs.

The International Federation of PGA Tours has announced that the 2001 World Golf Championships-World Cup will be held in Shizuoka, Japan.

The 2000 Cuervo Wakeboard Pro Tour, which is taking place this summer in five venues across Europe, has secured a series of five TV programmes in the Meridian, Anglia and HTV regions.

The European Commission has sent a legal warning to Telefonica Media and Sogecable, two major Spanish media groups, over the pooling of their broadcasting rights to Spain's league and cup soccer competitions.

NBA.com TV Daily ? a new global video service providing updates and highlights of NBA action from the night before ? has gone live today.

South African World Cup 2006 bid officials are planning a charm offensive in Europe later this month, trying to convince European members of the FIFA executive committee of the merits of their candidacy.

IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch has stepped into the row over the future of London's Wembley Stadium when he said that an arena holding 65,000 spectators would be big enough to host the Summer Games.

European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.

In a surprising move, Spanish telephone company Telefonica has broken off talks with Sogecable to merge the country's two digital platforms, the Telefonica-led Via Digital and Sogecable's CanalSatelite Digital (CSD).

Brazilian striker Ronaldo has launched a Swiss-made chronograph watch and promised part of the revenue would go to keep poor children off Rio's streets.

Melbourne's Metropolitan Club will host the Andersen Consulting world matchplay golf championship in January 2001.

Brazil's soccer chiefs have leapt to the defence of their bid for the 2006 World Cup finals after Pele said the campaign was a waste of time.

Sports lawyers have been the only people to profit this week in a bleak few days for track and field.

The G-14 group of top European soccer clubs meets in Monaco today to decide on how it will transform itself from a lobby group into a legitimate force that can shape the future of the game at the highest level.

European soccer giants Real Madrid are fuming at the Spanish firm that patented the Zinedine Zidane name long before the French star joined the club.

Florentino Perez, president of Spanish soccer club Real Madrid, said the sale of their city-centre training ground would allow the club to balance their books and clear debts of $250million (?285.19) ready for their centenary season in 2002.