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Germany and Brazil will officially join the race to host the 2006 World Cup today when they submit their bids to FIFA.

Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE:DIS - news) Buena Vista Internet Group has agreed to purchase 60 percent of soccernet.com from the Daily Mail & General Trust Plc (quote from Yahoo!UK & Ireland: DMGO.L) for an undisclosed amount.

Venator Group Inc., parent of the Foot Locker athletic shoe chain, said sales in the first month of the third quarter are running above expectations and the company expects to meet earnings estimates for the third quarter and the full year.

One year into its existence, the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) has already made some front office adjustments.

Telewest Communications, the UK?s second largest cable company after NTL, is to launch a virtual interactive horse racing application called iRace which will compete with Go Racing?s (now renamed attheraces) own interactive television channel for genuine horse races.
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The government reviews of England?s beleaguered Wembley Stadium and the national athletics stadium at Picketts Lock, both being assessed by former Prison Service director Patrick Carter, will not be available until this Friday and next week respectively.

The soccer stadiums for the first Afro-Asian Games have been severely criticised by a leading official who said they were unfit to stage international events.

Eurosport.com, the European sports portal, has reported record figures for it's online coverage of the Tour de France - registering over two million page impressions daily for the three-week event (July 7-29).

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.

South Africa's Premier League kicks off its new season on Wednesday against a backdrop of legal wrangles, feuding club bosses and growing public apathy.

English Premiership soccer club Wimbledon are facing mounting opposition to their plans to relocate north to Milton Keynes.

English Premiership soccer club Aston Villa reported a profit of #138,000 ($197,000/?225,000) for the year ending May 31 compared with a loss of #4.9million ($7m/?8m) last year but player wages rose by 16 per cent during last season.

The usually plentiful stocks of counterfeit shirts of English soccer club Manchester United are running low in Thailand, where thousands of fans are eagerly awaiting the English champions' arrival on Friday.

England?s 1966 World Cup soccer hero Sir Geoff Hurst has backed the campaign to keep Wembley as the home of English football.

Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW) has distributed a research note claiming that Manchester United plc has been the subject of bid speculation.

London-based sports internet company Sportal has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that its chief executive Rob Hersov and finance director Manilo Marocco have dug into their own pockets to keep the company alive for another month while it seeks a long-term investor.