I’m currently sat in the office churning through a Labs, but concentration has never been my strongest point. I’ve just watched the Champions League group stage draw via BBC live text (surely this generation’s Teletext) and now I’m following Andy Murray’s progress in the third round of the US Open. He’s winning.

But it’s how I’m doing it that I love most:

It’s as close to real-time as I’ve ever seen such a score tracker – it’s currently three entire service games ahead of the BBC’s live text, and (by checking the current live odds – always a dead giveaway to the score) I can see that it’s no more than 10-15 seconds behind reality.

And tennis isn’t the only sport in which you can keep track of progress in close to real-time. Tim’s already blogged about the wonderfully comprehensive Olympic coverage on the BBC website, and while it’s rare to find live video online, score trackers are increasingly common and more high-tech than ever.

Sports with numbers fare best online. Golf gets the live score treatment on the European Tour website (above), and the USPGA too – current holes, scores and positions are all updated as and when things occur all over the course.

And although Sky Sports’ Score Center won’t give you the delight that is five solid hours of the great Jeff Stelling on a Saturday afternoon, it will give you all the football scores, all the goals and all the stats in one constantly updating package.

In fact, pretty much any major sporting event can now be followed live, without access to a TV or radio, and that’s something that I find hugely liberating.

And also hugely distracting. Murray just lost the second set 6-1, which is my signal to get back to that Labs…