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ENIC Plc, which controls three European soccer clubs, has said that European soccer authority UEFA's decision to block clubs with common ownership from playing each other in European competition is in breach of European Union law.

There would be no backing down on the commitment to provide cheap tickets for the 2000 Sydney Games, New South Wales Olympics Minister Michael Knight has said.

Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman and Co-CEO of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., has been elected to the Board of Directors of Callaway Golf.

A record-breaking 26 million people in Britain watched England crash out of the World Cup in a penalty shoot-out against Argentina, broadcasters said on Wednesday.

British athletics chief David Moorcroft has launched his blueprint for the future of the sport and warned he would quit if his plans weren't endorsed.

England?s Chelsea football club chairman Ken Bates has received substantial but undisclosed libel damages and a public apology over a newspaper article which he said cast a slur on his name.

Visa International has announced it has secured a major new sponsorship deal with the FA Premier League - English soccer?s showcase competition.

UEFA, battling to avert the creation of a breakaway Super League, it may merge two of Europe's three major competitions.

English football club Aston Villa has said night they had been talking to media organisations about possible future co-operation.

The firm building the venue for the 1999 rugby union world cup final has warned it needs to work around the clock on the #121 million Millennium Stadium in Cardiff or it will not be ready in time.

Plans by Cardiff Devils ice hockey club for a new #240 million sports village are in jeopardy after one of the planning bodies responsible for approving the scheme branded it "unworkable."

European Union competition chief Karel Van Miert said he felt there was a problem in the bid by Rupert Murdoch's television group BSkyB for English premier league Manchester United.

The fate of West Indies' tour of South Africa due to start this week hung in the balance on Sunday after negotiations between officials and players over pay and conditions failed to produce an agreement.

The manager of English football club Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, is interested in expanding sporting investment to Australian soccer clubs, according to a Reuters report.

U2 vocalist Bono has joined a consortium hoping to take over Scottish soccer champions Celtic, newspapers has reported.

Isolationist North Korea has never been officially approached about the possibility of hosting matches during the 2002 World Cup, a top Pyongyang sports official has said.