"Security has become an ever-increasing issue for major sporting events in the past decade, " the World Cup organizers said in a statement.

CNN: Brazil boosts World Cup security budget as crime rises

Four specimens of the very first Winchester model ever made, an 1866 lever-acting sporting rifle, are in the sale.

FORBES: Hot Shots

"I guarantee that this will be the biggest betting event that this planet has ever seen, " says Wally Prior of London-based Sporting Index, the leading spread-betting firm.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But the benefit of these reforms is unlikely to be felt by July 29th, when Colombia sees the kick-off of the FIFA under-20 World Cup the biggest international sporting event ever held in the country, for which over 250, 000 tickets have already been sold.

ECONOMIST: A better country off the pitch is worse on it

Offering full HD, active shutter 3D with 720p resolution, the Home Cinema 750HD makes it easier than ever to enjoy movies, video games, sporting events and more in high-quality 2D and eye-popping 3D at up to 120-inches or larger.

ENGADGET: Epson adds the Home Cinema 750HD to its line of home theater projectors, ships in March for $899

The handover ceremony in Delhi, featuring a cast of 346 Scots, will mark the beginning of a four-year journey that will culminate in Glasgow hosting the biggest sporting event ever to take place on Scottish soil in 2014.

BBC: Events mark Games flag handover

London's Metropolitan Police Service, known as the Met, is undertaking what it says is its biggest-ever peacetime operation, running for 66 days across 1, 000 venues, including sporting and cultural events, and making use of up to 9, 500 police officers on the busiest days.

CNN: First 2012 Olympics contests kick off

"In 'NBA 2K13, ' we're giving fans the opportunity to play as two of the best teams ever assembled in sporting history, literally putting the debate right into their hands, " Jay-Z said in a statement.

CNN: 'NBA 2K13' lets gamers settle Dream Team debate

We learned about Phil's realisation that he would never make it as a footballer and his decision to go into sport journalism instead, as well as his childhood sporting hero - Charlton full-back John Humphrey, who none of us had ever heard of!

BBC: Pupils produce questions for young sport personalities

Cinedigm is teaming up with the league and Turner Sports to showcase the 2009 All-Star Saturday Night in Live 3D HD to some 80 theaters across the US. Hailed as the "first-ever marketed and commercially viable (open for sale to public) live movie theater broadcast of a major sporting event, " the spectacle will be available on over 160 screens in 35 states.

ENGADGET: Cinedigm to bring NBA All-Star Saturday Night live in 3D to theaters nationwide