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The NBA and TSN, Canada?s most watched sports network, have extended their television agreement for another two years. The new contract will include 26 regular-season games - at least eight featuring Canadian teams - and 18 playoff games.

NASCAR and the Indy Racing league has added two new venues to its 2001 schedule with new stops in Chicago and Kansas City.

British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc has secured broadcasting rights to West Indies cricket matches in an eight-year deal with the West Indies Cricket Board, according to press reports.

SportBusiness.com new media editor Andrew Gellatly reports from the Interactive Sports 2000 conference in Los Angeles.

Mike Miller, The BBC?s Controller of Television Sport, has resigned. Miller has accepted an offer from Worldsport.com to become the editorial director.

The China Rally has been removed from the 2000 world championship calendar at an International Automobile Federation (FIA) hearing.

Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks has snapped up the exclusive internet broadcasting rights to international cricket matches played in India.

ISL Worldwide has signed Orad Hi-Tec Systems to provide Orad's IMadGINE virtual advertising for the Tennis Masters Series TV coverage. This is the first time that Orad will be providing virtual advertising to an ISL premium event.

Newsweek has signed with ISL Worldwide as an inaugural presenting partner for the Tennis Masters Series, the elite series on the ATP Tour.

A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.

European soccer governing body UEFA has appointed UK-based Red Pepper ? specialist in TV branding ? to rebrand the on and off-screen identity of its premier club competition, the Champions League.

BBC Sport has signed a deal to extend its live coverage rights of golf?s US Masters tournament.

The chief executive officer of South Africa's bid committee for the 2006 Soccer World Cup has told the South African Cabinet that he is extremly confident the country will be awarded the event, the Pan African News Agency reports.

A threatened Asian boycott of the 2002 World Cup looks likely to be averted after the Asian Football Confederation cancelled an emergency meeting and asked member countries to enter the Cup's qualifying competition.

UK broadcaster BSkyB and organisers of golf's Ryder Cup have resolved a dispute over the television company's plans for coverage of the tournament on non-terrestrial channels.

The owner of a professional US hockey team in Raleigh is in talks that will clear the way for a naming-rights deal on the city's new arena, according to insider sources.