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Fox networks Fuel TV and Speed are expected to announce their first collaborative programming effort this week. The networks have partnered to deliver an hour of freestyle motocross programming to both channels. The one-hour block, “Moto Mix,” will feature the best of Fuel TV series like “M80”...

USA Swimming will become the first of three national governingbodies in a partnership with Wasserman Media Group to webcast an event livewith the agency this week. The 2007 ConocoPhilips USA Swimming National Championshipswill air over five nights on a test Web site (www.usaswimming.sportnet.com)beginning July 31. The site...

The addition of supercross to the X Games this year has fueleda debate about whether supercross and motocross are action sports ormotorsports. “It is the original action sport,” said Steve Astephen,president of action sports at Wasserman Media Group. “It’s an individual,hard-core event. They’re warriors.” Camp Woodward...

Though the supercross season ends each May, most of itsriders, sponsors and fans keep going. They turn their attention outdoors to theToyota AMA motocross series, a 12-race championship that concludes inSeptember. The motocross series preserves the grassroots of the sport,and caters to committed fans and devoted riders....

Kevin Robinson cut through a crowd of people and shuffleddown an aisle of 18-wheelers just outside Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium. Thesmell of high-octane fuel and the steady staccato of revved engines surroundedhim. Supercross visits 18 cities each season and...

A blend of new stadiums, new players and a new market haspushed MLS’s average attendance up 1.6 percent — to 15,057 a game — at themidpoint of the season. At the same time, the league’s success at the gate wastempered by flat television ratings. ...

Major League Soccer’s expanding owner-operator base scooped upanother new member during the MLS All-Star break. Lew Wolff , who owns alarge percentage of the Oakland A’s, will return MLS to the Bay Area with asecond edition of the San Jose Earthquakes, an expansion franchise that willgive the...

AEG has a preliminary agreement to sell the MLS Chicago Fire to Andell Holdings, an investment firm owned by Andrew Hauptman and his wife, Ellen Bronfman Hauptman, Andell Holdings confirmed. “The transaction is expected to be completed within 30-45 days and is subject to various closing conditions,...

SCP Worldwide is expected to announce a five-year partnership withReal Madrid that will see it manage the Spanish soccer club’s broadcastingrights and tours in North America. The agreement marks the Spanish club’s first major push into theU.S. market. It’s also the latest evolution in a relationship that...

Alexi Lalas’ family vacation disintegrated last January. What wassupposed to be a quiet week away from work in Palm Beach, Fla., turned into aweek of nonstop, international phone calls and e-mails. Is it done? Lalas,...