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If your goal is to take photographs of your kids at sporting events, a camera that has a 10x optical zoom or greater would be preferable. This is going to be difficult at $150 or less. Some other features I would look for is, continuous shooting mode, sports mode, and image stabilization. Within your price range the Canon A590IS might be a good fit, but it only has a 4x optical zoom so you're going to have to get a lot closer to your subject. A little more money would go a long way towards getting you a camera that best fits your needs. I would also consider purchasing a memory card with a high write speed, because this should allow you to take consecutive images faster.

I am assuming this means you will not be close to your subjects. If this is the case, what I would look for in a point and shoot camera is a lens with at least a 10x optical zoom. If this will be an indoor event you will most likely need to use a flash, and the flashes on point and shoot cameras are often not powerful enough to light distant subjects properly. I would actually suggest looking into purchasing a DSLR with an external flash that mounts to the cameras hotshoe. External flashes have two benefits when shooting indoor subjects at a distance, they have much greater distance coverage than built in flashes do, and they will greatly reduce red-eye in photographs.

In November of 2007 Hewlett Packard announced they would be no longer manufacturing digital cameras. They continued to sell their cameras thru the 2007 holiday season, but are no longer available to retailers.