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Hingis sues over sore feet
Tennis star Martina Hingis is suing a sports shoe company for $35 million for giving her sore feet.
Blatter aide confident ahead of ExCom grilling
Michel Zen-Ruffinen, general secretary of soccer’s governing body FIFA, emerged from a Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday confident that president Sepp Blatter could answer all the questions relating to the collapse of its marketing partner ISL.
Angry Brazilian fans stage protest
Angry football supporters wearing red noses protested outside headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on Tuesday after the four-times world champions' shock defeat by Honduras the day before.
Malaga president quits over legal investigation
Fernando Puche has quit as president of Spanish first division club Malaga because of a legal investigation into his business interests.
Liquor companies given go ahead for Salt Lake City ads
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Utah's strict liquor laws that ban advertising for wine and liquor on grounds they limit constitutionally protected free speech.
NHL to pay £21M for European players
The National Hockey League (NHL) has agreed to pay European ice hockey clubs an increased compensation fee of £21m ($28.8m) over the next three years for players who are poached to play in the US.
Hockenheim to host German Grand Prix for next 7 years
The German Grand Prix will be held at the Hockenheimring for another seven years after an agreement to extend the contract was reached between Formula One Holding and the Hockenheimring GmbH.
NFL to switch to saturday night prime time slot
The National Football League has announced that it will move two rounds of playoff action from their traditional Saturday afternoon slots to a more high-profile time on Saturday nights for the coming season in a bid to boost viewership.
QPR Fans bid for control of club’s future
Fans of Queen's Park Rangers have launched a bid for the English second division soccer club, which has been in the hands of administrators since April, a London newspaper has reported.
BBC sign up Freeman and Johnson
UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has signed up 400m stars Cathy Freeman and Michael Johnson as part of its commentary team for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, to be held in Edmonton, Canada through August 3-12.
BHB faces probe into online data costs
The British Horseracing Board (BHB) is facing an investigation by the UK's consumer watchdog into allegations it is overcharging online bookmakers for supplying lists of runners and riders at race meetings.
BT pulls plug on race sponsorship – vows not turning back on sport
UK telecommunications firm BT has denied it is cutting back on its sport sponsorship programme after axing its association with the BT Challenge round-the-world yacht race.
Haffa resigns as CEO of EMTV
Cash-strapped German media giant EMTV has announced that its chief executive Thomas Haffa is to resign from the company he created in 1989.
Talksport signs beer deal
talkSPORT, the UK national radio station, has signed a £1m ($1.4m) deal with the brewer Scottish Courage, the maker of John Smith beer.
Power Leisure looks to move from Ireland to the UK
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.
Bulgaria attempts to stop match fixing
Bulgaria will have a play-off system for its premier league next season in a bid to prevent match fixing, the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) announced yesterday.
Activists put pressure on Chinese Olympic bid
Human rights groups, backed by China's best-known exiled dissident and Tibetan activists, have launched a campaign against awarding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to China.
PSN to broadcast Latin American Soccer Cup Competitions
Latin American pay-TV sports network PSN is to broadcast more than 100 matches from two of the region’s soccer tournaments – the Copa Mercosur and the Copa Merconorte.
ITV Digital gets support from SMG
SMG, the minority owner in terrestrial television network ITV, has resolved its dispute with the channel’s majority owners Granada and Carlton Communications over the rebranding of ITV’s digital and sports channels.
Gas company to sponsor Singapore soccer club
Singapore’s S-League football club Woodlands Wellington, without a sponsor at the beginning of this season, has secured its second sponsor in two months.