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Tennis star Martina Hingis is suing a sports shoe company for $35 million for giving her sore feet.

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 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.

Fernando Puche has quit as president of Spanish first division club Malaga because of a legal investigation into his business interests.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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, 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.