Tuesday was the date for the annual meeting between Major League Soccer's defending champions and the President of the United States. The meeting always generates publicity for the league, but the 2012 version was even more high profile than usual. This visit included such big names as David Beckham and Landon Donovan.

TNT Overtime has been providing live streams of NBA games throughout the 2011-12 season and it continues its coverage throughout the playoffs.
TNT Overtime has decided to give its live stream a completely different view than its regular version on its network television broadcast.
There are multiple camera angles shown on Overtime that are not shown on the regular broadcast.

One of the biggest off-season stories was the start of the NBC/MLS relationship. To date, the broadcasts have been high quality, the announcers first rate and the ratings slightly better than expected. Most impressive has been promotional efforts of the Peacock. The NBC Sports Network has done an excellent job putting MLS in front of their NHL audience and during other telecasts.

We are on the road tonight, so here is a vault piece from the start of last season. This was part of our series that looked at the art of televising soccer.

The Major League Soccer 2011 season got started on Tuesday night with a nationally broadcast match carried by ESPN. Fans of all sports are frequently critical of the television presentation of sports events and soccer fans are no different.

On Wednesday afternoon NBC hosted a conference call to discuss its upcoming first year of Major League Soccer coverage. Footiebusiness contributor Dave Laidig was on the call and presents this summary of the event.

NBCSports starts their coverage this Sunday with FC Dallas and
NYRB , and previewed their coverage to the press on Wednesday.

Tony Pulis' Technical Area Tony Pulis was so unhappy with Robert Huth's red card against Sunderland that he emailed Match of the Day attaching a photo showing that the big defender's boots didn't make contact with David Meyler. Quite why the Potters boss thought MOTD would be lacking camera angles of the incident is unclear, [.

Eye-tracking Technology at Stamford Bridge?

The final product will be much, much smoother, but technology company Technicolor released what they called a "Personalized Content Renderer". It was on show at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and this clip of a Premier League match at Stamford Bridge displays what Technicolor have in store.

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes made a shock return to Manchester United's midfield eight months after his retirement in yesterday's FA Cup clash with Manchester City. OTP decided to run the rule over Scholes' second debut with the aid of the Performa Sports iPad sports analysis app. So here's a statistical look at Scholes' influence [.