ESPN-Star paid "1.1 billion dollars" for global rights: report
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The Singapore-based ESPN-Star television network was awarded cricket's global media rights for the next eight years for a staggering 1.1 billion dollars, the sport's leading website reported.
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Peter G. Angelos could sell the Baltimore Orioles for almost $200 million more than he paid for the team 11 years ago under terms of a deal he is negotiating with Major League Baseball to compensate him for the Montreal Expos moving to Washington
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Deal to purchase the streaming-media tools developer is valued at nearly $160 million in cash and stock.
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Various media outlets, including mlb.com and ESPN Radio 1000, are reporting the Cubs have docked their superstar a day&#39;s pay for leaving last Sunday&#39;s Cubs-Braves game well before it ended.
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Prosecutors said that the hip-hop music producer and record executive Irv Gotti had aided a friend in concealing more than $1 million in illicit narcotics proceeds.
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Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, signed a deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games.
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Sun Microsystems will pay US$1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world.
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A television writer and producer paid $10,200 for what an animal rights group said are notes from football star Michael Vick's speech apologizing for a dogfighting scandal.
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Penthouse International Inc.  defrauded investors in a 2003 quarterly financial report by  improperly booking $1 million in revenues, U.S. regulators  charged on Monday.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. - Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking website estimated to be worth $1 billion or more.
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The Walt Disney Co.  will spend about $30 million to shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone services, but remains "excited" about its family-oriented Disney Mobile phone service, Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs said on Monday.
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Accusing Google and its YouTube site of âmassive copyright infringement,â Viacom said it was seeking more than $1 billion in damages.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  has approved a $1.47 million increase in its expenditure budget  for next year.
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ATHENS -- US swimmer Michael Phelps received bonuses of more than $1 million for his Olympic feats, even after missing out on Speedo's million-dollar offer for matching Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals, Phelps's manager said.
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Sport: Boxer's promotions company paid $3.1m for 3,900 tickets that were sold on to fans for Mayweather fight
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Businessman alleged to have paid more than $1 million over the past decade to have sex with a large number of young women.
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A former make-up artist for a television sports talk show on Wednesday sued the broadcaster ESPN, one of the show's anchors and a panelist she worked with for sexual harassment.