The Sun, that bastion of quality news journalism and tits on page 3, is planning to erect a paywall for its online offerings, in something it's calling Sun+. Basically, you pay two quid a month for access to the paper and "near-live" TV clips of Premier League footie. Tempting perhaps? Read More >>

Manchester City might not have won the league, but at least it'll have a whole stadium filled with Cisco's "intelligent high-density Wi-Fi" for fans to stream things like instant replays or tweet their frustration with some overpaid diving twerp. Could be awesome for action replays -- the best of TV brought directly into the stadium on your phone? [TNW] Read More >>

In a new study published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery, a group of scientists proved, seemingly, that modern American football helmets are better than old leather ones. Thanks, guys. What is more notable, however, is that this batshit crazy device is how the data was gathered. Read More >>

The Premier League has given the go-head for for goal-line sensor tech, with the proven Hawk-Eye system set to be introduced for the 2013/14 season. Seven cameras in each goal will ensure "millimetre accurate" tracking of the ball, taking some of the guesswork out of controversial did it/didn't it moments. Read More >>

FIFA has announced that—finally!—goal line technology will be used to assess whether balls really do cross the line at the 2014 football World Cup, which will be held in Brazil. Read More >>

The ref's giving god-awful decisions left and right, so what do you do? Strap a hi-def camera to his chest and actually see it from his point of view, of course. Or at least, that's the idea. Somehow I think it'll be a jerky, vomit-inducing mess of footage, but Rugby's trying it, and other sports might follow. Read More >>

Although it's probably completely against Fifa regulations, Japanese luxury toilet maker Toto has turned one of its commodes into what has to be the greatest football goalie ever. It's a step-up from the company's Poop-Powered Toiletcycle. But as impressive as it is, it's still pretty useless as far as toilet innovation goes. Read More >>

Sky has fiddled with its iPad Sky Sports app for the new footie season, rubbing it down with the magic sponge and adding dual-screen features to make watching John Terry whinge his way through an afternoon even more... enjoyable. Read More >>

According to the BBC, the Premier League had quite the task on its hands over the past year, as they had more than 30,000 illegal streams of matches to deal with, which appears to be around more than 75 streams per game broadcasting over the internet last season. That's quite a lot of streams! Read More >>

They said the London 2012 games were the "social" games, and if they meant Twitter causing a right old mess for everyone, then they were spot on. We've now had two Olympians ejected for racist tweets; someone get locked up for abusing Tom Daley, and now a storm over Twitter's censorship of a journalist. Also, I'm apparently most similar to a female GB swimmer's body (who knew?), and we've won the first GB men's gymnastics medal in 100 years -- so, not all bad then. Read More >>

It's OC-day, that's the first official day of the London 2012 Olympic Games marked by the Opening Ceremony. That kicks off tonight, and is bound to be a wondrous occassion, filled with British pride and spectacular choreography, if everyone can get there that is. It's not quite as hot, so maybe the trains will be able to stop this time around, as long as the drivers aren't necking performance-enhancing beer that is. Read More >>

Tired of the corporate love-in; security fears and traffic chaos of the London Olympics, but just really love sport? We're in the same boat, so put together a list of alternative British Olympic events for you to enjoy this summer. There's a shin-kicking, welly-wangin', cheese-rolling world of sport out there, so it's easy to create your own bonkers Olympics this weekend. Read More >>

Welcome to the first in a long line of interesting and amusing wrap-up posts from a day's worth of Olympic news. We'll have the good, the bad, and the downright ugly for you to smile, cringe or just plain titter at. The Olympics haven't even started yet, but already there's some laughable rubbish going on...such as that little flag skirmish last night. Ooops. Read More >>

If transport chaos wasn't enough, LOCOG can't seem to tell the difference between North and South Korea either. The North Korean woman's football team walked off in outrage, as their team photos were put up on a massive screen next to the flag of their hated next-door neighbours. Ouch. Read More >>

At last, after years of horribly bad referee calls, the cave full of old crooks and farts known as FIFA has approved the use of technology to track the ball in football games. This is a huge change, with profound implications in the most popular sport in the world. Read More >>