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The official World Internet Chess Championships have been launched by FIDE Commerce International (FCI) – the exclusive holders of commercial rights to all FIDE world chess events.

Premier1 Racing has secured its second soccer club – English Premier League frontrunners Leeds United.

Brazilian Senators investigating corruption in soccer recommended that one of the country's most controversial club presidents be stripped of his parliamentary status.

Bowman International Sports, an off-shore licence and telephone sports betting operation based in Mauritius, has signed an agreement with UK-listed online gaming developer IQ-Ludorum to deploy IQ-Ludorum's integrated gaming software.

Premium TV, the sports rights and content internet and broadcast subsidiary wholly-owned by UK cable firm NTL, has launched Footee.net – a soccer-based educational website.

After almost six months of wrangling and an eight-and-a-half hour meeting on Tuesday, Football Data Company, the commercial and licensing division of England’s Premier League and Football Leagues, moved closer to agreeing a deal with the UK’s major journalist bodies over the future practices of soccer journalists.

Online sports companies were given a much-needed boost after Jupiter Media Matrix, a New York-based research firm, said the online advertising market would rise in 2001.

The NHL has signed an exclusive deal for a ground-breaking new e-commerce platform.

A multi million-dollar sponsorship arrangement between Australian brewer Tooheys and an Australian horse racing club is under increasing pressure with Tooheys claiming it has not gained the naming rights it was promised.

Video game giant Electronic Arts has signed a three-year deal with Talladega Superspeedway, naming the famous NASCAR Winston Sup Series autumn race the EA SPORTS 500.

Dallas-based investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, is to slow down its Latin American activities to concentrate on its North American and European projects.

US virtual imaging company Princeton Video Image (PVI) has signed a two-year deal with NFL team Philadelphia Eagles to provide virtual advertising in all Eagles pre-season games.

The future practices of soccer journalists in the UK were finally approved yesterday between Football Data Company, the commercial and licensing division of England’s Premier League and Football Leagues, and the UK’s major journalist bodies.

For a Formula One team there is only one sound more comforting on race day than the roar of their car's engine on the track and that is the whirr of their sponsors' helicopters overhead

New parks may be a home run for team owners, but sports economists agree that new ballparks and stadiums are a strike-out for taxpayers who typically have to foot the multimillion dollar bill. For the full story see the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com.

Osaka is not ready to throw in the towel in the race to stage the 2008 summer Olympic Games, bid officials have said.