We’re spoiled today on so many levels. International supply chains bring us all the world’s goods, from Colombian coffee to Vidalia onions. Our TVs brings us crisp images of live events on the other side of the globe. We can listen to new music on our mobile phones. We get 40-50 soccer games on TV a week.

So we shouldn’t have an entitlement mentality about live stuff.

With that disclaimer in mind, I’ve encountered a couple of frustrations in following Myriad sports in the past 24 hours.

In cycling, it’s a frustration of being so close and yet so far to knowing where everyone is in real time. The official Tour de France site has changed little over the past few years, which is itself a bit of an indictment in the fast-changing new media world. Still, the framework is sound — when it works. Today, it didn’t.

The basic idea in their live coverage is to show all the different groups as they travel through the day’s stage. On a flat stage, that’s easy. You have one breakaway, maybe a couple of guys chasing them, then the peloton.

Mountain stages are always more of a challenge. You may have an early breakaway that splinters somewhere up that category-1 or “beyond category” climb, and the riders that fall back from that group are often more trouble to track than they’re worth. Two things are important: Who’s winning the stage, and where are all the top 10 contenders for the yellow jersey?

They blew it today. After 45 minutes or so of the long, brutal climb that defined today’s stage, we knew that Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador had separated themselves from the other contenders, yellow jersey-holder Cadel Evans was falling far behind, and Lance Armstrong was in a small group somewhere in between. What we did NOT know was the fate of Levi Leipheimer, Armstrong’s teammate and fellow American, who had become Team Radio Shack’s top rider when Armstrong fell off the pace over the weekend.

On Versus, the beloved duo of Paul Sherwen and Phil Liggett managed to catch a glimpse of him somewhere between Armstrong’s group and the Schleck-Contador group. But the Tour’s site didn’t register him at all for a long, long time. Finally, they added his group to the live graphic just before Levi passed over the summit, but they didn’t give us the time gaps between his group and the others.

They also missed Christophe Moreau, who’s almost my age but surprisingly turned up somewhere between the various lead groups on the mountain.

In the age of our mobile phones telling us how many feet we are from the nearest Starbucks, this problem seems easy to solve. Strange that they’d be going backward, just like I would be if I trying to pedal up that slope.

A little more difficult is poker. The folks at Poker News who feed updates and chip counts to the official site put a disclaimer in today’s coverage warning readers that they simply can’t track everyone. Still, casual fans can be frustrated by the site’s tendency to focus on players who have some sort of rep from Europe or the online world. Some of us are indeed a little more interested in the progress of Simpsons voice master Hank Azaria or the voice of the Octagon, Bruce Buffer, who tells us he’s still going strong.