There's nothing more frustrating that trying to watch live sports and not having a Television or Cable TV connection. Or even worse, having to watch the latest episode of Glee with your significant other while the Home Team is laying the smack down on your hated rival. Thankfully, there is a solution. If you can get online, chances are, you can watch the big game on your home computer or laptop. While sometimes it can be frustratingly difficult to find a live steam, ss more often than not, a simple search just leads to a bunch of sites that want to charge a fee or get some personal information, a couple simple steps will have you watching live.

The best place to find a quality live stream is from the broadcaster's own site. Premier events, like the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are often streamed livewww.ctvolympics.ca/. So if you know who's broadcasting your event, head on over to their home page, and see if you can get it online.

The broadcaster may want you to download a third party software such as Microsoft Silverlight, be prepared to perform upgrades to your computer in order to watch the broadcasters feed.

Peer-to-Peer networking is mana from heaven for live sports. Just because you can't be home to watch the game, doesn't mean that someone else isn't. There are two places that probably get you what you want. Visit Justin. TVhttp://www.justin.tv/ or ATDHE.nethttp://www.atdhe.net/index.html. Justin TV will require that you search for the sporting event you want. You may also get a number of channels that are static images trying to get you to link to their pay/subscription based sites. So be aware of when somebody is trying to scam you, if you use Justin TV, understand you should never have to leave Justin TV to watch the event.

Where Justin TV is filtered by users, ATDHE.net has events from sites like Justin TV but hand picked by editors who have in advance found the proper feed. Right from their index page, you'll get a list of sporting events taking place that day. If the game is listed, and has started, click on the link to open a new window with your game broadcast live.

If you still haven't found what you're looking for, you're probably trying to watch your neighborhood lawn bowling tournament or the Easter Island Ping Pong Championships. But no matter. There's still one more thing to try. Visit MyP2P.euhttp://www.myp2p.eu/guide.php?part=software. You'll have to download some software. Sopcast is easy enough to use and is free, but other programs may be necessary as well. Once the software is installed, search MyP2P.eu's list of events, and click on the one you want to watch. If you've installed everything correctly, your software will open up a windown, and voila. Live action.