Tag: SPORTS

Sporting Connections is a social network site for athletes, teams, and sporting-event coordinators that is designed to connect people based on sport interest. Teams can connect their team members via a team page and message board. Individuals can find teams to join or find other individuals to form a team. The "Events" search function lets users search for events by sport, location, and date. ...

One of the toughest things about being a local online sports fan is getting up-to-the-minute scores and play-by-play action on your favorite sports teams. Sure, you could watch the game on local TV coverage. But if you're a frequent traveler or just somebody who spends a lot of nights out, it's not easy to catch third-and-long every time it happens, especially when the team you follow is a high ...

What do the NFL and RSS have in common besides three letters? Nothing, except for the fact they have just tackled each other into providing as-it-happens news, headlines, and summaries of NFL action. The team behind the NFL website has just made grabbing NFL data both faster and easier. Forget about checking out and scanning NFL.com all day waiting for something to happen, just read it via RSS ...

In a recently leaked story on a PR news site, Yahoo has announced its first deal since the CEO swapping fiasco. GigaOm's Liz Gannes caught sight of this timing error on an Associated Press story that could have Yahoo in the front of the line for the online obsessive sporting fan. Under Jerry Yang's command its business as usual, and Yahoo is moving along by acquiring the hard core sporting site ...

Keeping track of calendars and appointments might say 'boring' to many users, but Google is aiming to change that stigma with their new Calendar gallery. With nary a 'Management Strategies' event in sight, this collection of subscribe-able calendars (which anyone can add to) is all about fun, travel, sports and the rest of life. Featured calendars include a Netflix DVD release schedule, Orbitz ...

It's baseball season and this year Apple is getting in on the action announcing plans to offer 2007 Major League Baseball highlights in the iTunes store. iTunes will have two full-length "Games of the Week" available to download as well as a daily 25 minute re-cap show highlighting game highlights from the National and American baseball leagues. Both "MLB.com Daily Rewind" and the Game of the ...

There was certainly a lot of fanfare when Google announced that they were going to allow people around the world to watch in-season full-length games on Google Video. Well, it seems that Comcast now allows anyone in the US to stream up to 2 live games a day. When Comcast and the NHL first made this announcement, the games were only viewable to Comcast High-Speed Internet customers. This year, ...

MySI is a great app for all you sports buffs. It consists of a desktop sports news app with a full screen-saver built in. In minimized mode it is a small toolbar that sits above your taskbar. It doesn't take up too much space, and acts as a news ticker for (currently) up to three of your favorite NFL teams. It is ad supported by several notable companies like Miller, RadioShack, Comcast, Nissan, ...

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has the scoop on a couple fancy new visualization tools that will be launching next Monday on Digg. Both are Flash-based visualizations that let you keep tabs on Digg stories in an eye-pleasing way. The first, Digg Stack, shows recent stories as vertical bars and diggs as blocks that fall on top of them, building up each story's "stack." You can click on a stack to ...

The new beta version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (version 8) lets users attach special use plugins. There were several available when the beta version was rolled out and today several more were made available in the Yahoo! Application Gallery. Yahoo! Scribbler - It does just what the name says, it lets you scribble. When you and you chatting friend launch it, you can collaborate on a ...

If you follow NCAA basketball with any fervor, then March is your favorite month of the year. If you're a gambler or an office pool enthusiast, then March is also your favorite month of the year. The NCAA's basketball tournament has a soft gambling market that is unmatched by any other sport in terms of mass appeal. Wagering and pooling on the NCAA tourney is such a popular pastime that there's a ...

Finally, what might be a compelling reason to upgrade my old 'n crufty phone: Google Local Mobile. Google has finally taken the next logical step and brought Google Local (Google Maps included) to mobile phones. Though I can't actually use it, from the tour it look fantastic. It has almost all of Google Local's features, including built-in local search, driving and walking directions, and ...