It hasn't been two weeks since San Francisco won the World Series, and the sport of baseball is already getting ready to spend millions of dollars on a new crop of free agents. Meanwhile, gamers around the country are getting ready to spend their own collective millions, this time on the Kinect, Microsoft's revolutionary motion-gaming unit.

The Commonwealth Games 2010 are coming up with Delhi being the host for the first time ever. Here are some of the most interesting facts about the 2010 Delhi Games.

It seems that some US media outlets are still getting to grips with the finer points of football, declaring that it was the Orange-clad, yellow-carded Dutch who won on Sunday night.

Nigeria's president has said the hundreds of posts on his Facebook page helped persuade him to reverse his suspension of the national football team from international competition.

These days, in pretty much every sport, there is no hiding from statistics. Coaches, team owners, fantasy leaguers, and fans are tracking and analyzing a player's every move, fitness level, and more. And now, thanks to a chemical and biological engineer at Northwestern University, we can compare our number-crunching with a much-touted new algorithm.

So you've started watching the World Cup in South Africa, you're enjoying the games, but the thing that's spoiling it for many are those vuvuzelas. Until FIFA gets around to banning them, there is another way of cancelling out the sound on your television, if suggestions circulating the web are to be believed.

Many of the sweepstakes being run at workplaces ahead of next week's football World Cup are likely to be illegal, according to an expert in gambling law. Sweeps with informal tickets and even those where some proceeds go to charity can be illegal.

Next month's FIFA World Cup in South Africa will give many viewers in the UK their first taste of 3D sport, but if Japan is successful in their bid to host the tournament in 2022 regular 3DTV may be old news by the time the teams walk out.

Small and medium businesses could be hit by computer chaos with 54% of UK workers planning to watch 2010 FIFA World Cup games online at work, a survey has revealed. This will slow down networks and in extreme cases even crash computer systems, according to internet service provider Eclipse Internet, which conducted the survey among 2,000 UK workers.

Internet services firm Yahoo has secured the exclusive UK online highlights rights for the English Premier League from 2010 to 2013. The three-season multi-million pound deal, which starts in August, will see Yahoo.co.uk show five minute highlight packages of every Premier League match.

To start with, a reinforced elastic structure means that CTRUS doesn't require any air. (So long, pump.) Next, GPS and RFID chips keep track of the ball's position at all times, and tell it to light up in different colors when it scores a goal or is accomplice to a nefarious violation.

A Canadian company has created what it calls the "largest thought-controlled computing installation." It's an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.

Football fans have watched Arsenal and Manchester United kick off the world's first live 3D sports broadcast.

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be filmed in 3D for the first time, it has been announced. Up to 25 of the games will be captured using 3D cameras, football's governing body Fifa said.

Sky is set to up the 3D TV ante after confirming trials of a 3D outside broadcast system that will deliver 3D football. The broadcasting giants have already outlined plans for 3D TV to enter homes in 2010, with a specialist 3D channel and now look likely to bring the beautiful game in all its three dimensional glory as well by mid 2010.

Pay-TV provider BSkyB is to show live Premier League matches on Apple's iPhone. Users can watch live sports on Sky Sports and ESPN as well as Sky News over a wi-fi connection for £6 a month.

Playing new style computer games can help people burn up a significant amount of calories, research has found.

Games consoles such as Nintendo Wii require players to use body movements to control the action. A study by Liverpool John Moores University found regular use could help shift 27lb (12.25kg) a year.

The latest drone among you motorcycle aficionados: behold the biodiesel motorcycle! Greenline Industries recently introduced the world’s first biodiesel land speed record motorcycle in their booth at the National Biodiesel Conference in San Antonio, TX. Greenline have sponsored the Earthrace circumnavigation world record attempt, and now they are sponsoring The Crucible's land speed record attempt.

Sony has applied for a patent on a powered skateboard that uses similar balancing technology to the Segway transporter.

The board has two wheels on either side of the step board and uses computers to keep the rider steady. It is steered by the rider leaning in the direction of travel, which is picked up by pressure sensors in the base.