It's all about the game.

As a sports lover I often find myself planning my weekends and sometimes weekdays around the sports broadcasting calender. Football, cricket, basketball, golf, you name it I love watching it on the box. Alas work and University often gets in the way of this passion and I'm forced to leave the picture box behind and plant myself behind a monitor of a different kind. In the past this meant I would miss my favourite sports and have to catch up on the replay at a later time.

BUT NOT ANYMORE - thanks to the live sports blog.

Quite simply I love them. The beauty of the medium is you can flick back and forth between what you're supposed to be doing and what you would rather be doing without missing a beat. One of my all time favourites is text commentary of international cricket on foreign soil through cricinfo.com. The quality of the match description on this site is second to none. The operators capture the information and colour of the event and in many ways I prefer it to the pictures. Take the NSW v Royal Challengers semi final in the ICC as an example. Not only do you get a ball-by-ball description of the action you get to experience the personality od the commentators as well with quips like: Gautam: "Even with Dilshans outstanding spell, NSW are 65 after 8.. Which means the rest of the bowlers have gone for more than 11 an over... phew.. what did Dilshan have for breakfast?" 

Other sports sites offer similar content or even different but equally engaging. The AFL website has a Match Centre application that tracks the movement of the ball on the field and by hovering over the the area where the ball is you get a description of the player involved and how the play unfolded. In addition it has statistics, previews, fan engagement. In many ways it's also better than the TV.

So as you can see I love live sport online because the action never stops, oh yeah - and I can do it while I work.