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Media

FIFA will take no immediate action against former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, the player at the centre of a 1990s bribery case.
Business

Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis is today signing a $1.6m deal with the BBC ? a key victory for the broadcaster as it looks to rebuild its sports portfolio.
Media

French pay- television company Canal Plus, a unit of Vivendi Universal , said it had received two billion French francs ($280.6 million) from the sale of its Eurosport stakes to TF1 .

Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports has announced that 70% of the advertising time for the first 10 weeks of the XFL football league, starting February 3is sold out.
Media

Uniforms to be worn by Salt Lake Organizing Committee staff, course workers and volunteers for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games will be bright, colour-coordinated, and costly.
Business

Japan is fighting for a change in the title name of the 2002 World Cup finals because FIFA put South Korea ahead of them when they announced the joint Asian co-hosts in April 1996.
Events

HBO.com is to launch a live interactive adjunct to HBO Sports' new 12-week talk/magazine show, On the Record with Bob Costas.
Events

Octagon Marketing has won the exclusive rights to capitalise on the commercial potential of chess worldwide over the next three years.
Business

An increase in subscribers to Spain?s pay-TV channels ? the broadcasters of live Primera Liga soccer - has coincided with declining attendance at league matches.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Hi-Tec Sports have announced that the Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series will not continue in the UK for 2001.
Business

Shares in French commercial TV station TF1 - which had been hit recently by fears of slower advertising revenues - gained over two percent as investors cheered in-line 2000 earnings and a deal to buy all of Canal Plus and Havas Image's stakes in the Eurosport sports channel.

David Dein, the vice-chairman of London soccer club Arsenal, and the English Football Association (FA), said a new transfer system could be in place by next season which would force agents to sign a declaration promising not to tout players to other clubs while they are under contract.

The end of the transfer battle between the European Union and soccer's governing bodies is almost in sight, said FIFA General Secretary Michel Zen-Ruffinen at the Football Expo trade show in Cannes.For more on this SEE FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.
Stadia

Alerts.com, the monitoring system that alerts mobile phone carriers and internet users of breaking sports news, has reached an agreement with CNNSI.com to expand the alert-messages it first introduced in September 2000 with the NFL.
Business

The Czech finance ministry will guarantee the transfer of land, on which a new arena is to be built for the 2003 World Ice Hockey Championships, to the ownership of TJ Bohemians.
Business

The BBC says it would consider pitching a rival bid against Rupert Murdoch?s Sky for the rights to heavyweight boxing?s greatest prize ? live coverage of Mike Tyson against Lennox Lewis.

Four Bosnian Serb soccer clubs are to enter the Bosnian Cup for the first time and compete with eight teams from the Muslim-Croat federation for a place in UEFA Cup.
Business

Turkish soccer authorities agreed a $465 million television deal on Wednesday to end a dispute over broadcast rights which delayed the second half of the season by a week, a spokesman for the governing body said.
Business

English Premier League soccer club Arsenal says it expects Sega to see its club sponsorship through ? despite today?s announcement it is to scrap production of its Dreamcast games console.
Business

Sports sponsorship and marketing agency Azorie Consulting Ltd has appointed Debbie Jarrold as its new events manager.