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Opening day for the 2009 major league baseball season was last week, and teams are now in full swing. If you were with us two years ago, you might recall our write-up covering how to get baseball scores on your mobile phone directly from MLB.com.
Unless you’re a Washington Nationals fan, you might be looking for other ways to get your teams scores. For the 2009 season, our pick for how to get baseball scores on the go is SportsTap MLB.
Once you get past the ad, this mobile site displays the day’s scores in an easy to read view, and is followed by headlines to the top stories. The site also include information that others don’t, including standings, recent transactions, season leaders, and schedules. This mobile website displays very nicely on the iPhone, which is a good thing for many of you out there.
SportsTap comes close to hitting it out of the park with this one. Take a look and let us know what you think!
Mobile Website:
http://sportstap.mobi/mlb/
April 15th, 2009
Not sure if you’ll be able to park yourself in front of your TV for 6 hours on February 1st? If you might miss any part of this year’s Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, you may want to add this mobile website to your phone favorites now, just in case (as you can see, the URL is difficult to remember).
Use NFL.com to view the latest score, injury updates, and photos from the big game.
So who will win the Super Bowl? I’m assuming the odds makers are making the Steelers the favorite – anyone know the latest line?
Mobile Website:
www.nfl.com
To find out more, visit www.nfl.com/wireless.
January 21st, 2009
We’re in the midst of bowl week in college football, and the BCS National Championship game between Oklahoma and Florida is just days away. The links listed below to the ESPN mobile website and the Sporting News mobile site will keep you in tuned to the latest scores and highlights.
Bookmark these sites on your mobile browser now so you don’t have to fumble around for the URLs during game time. Enjoy the bowl games!
Sporting News Mobile Website:
mobile.sportingnews.com
m.espn.com or espn.mobi
January 2nd, 2009
We missed profiling a mobile website yesterday, so we’re making up for it with two today. And because the markets continue to depress, we will focus on fun sites that will get you ready for the ski season!
The first mobile website is an InfoSpace site that provides updated ski conditions from all the major resorts in not only North America, but around the world. I did a quick check on Bridger Bowl resort in Bozeman, Montana, and alas, it is a tad early for snow. Someone check in three weeks and give us an update!
For the second mobile site of the day, we go cross country to one of the best ski resorts in New England, Killington Resort in Vermont. Killington’s mobile website offers a current snow report, upcoming events at the resort, text message alerts, and a few mobile wallpapers if you need to see an image of the slopes at all times. While it’s too early for snow there as well, it is peak season to view the fall foliage.
So if you’re a ski freak, add these mobile websites to your mobile browser favorites now, before you need them.
Mobile Websites
Ski Conditions:
www.infospace.com/info.avant/redirs_all.htm?pgtarg=funski/
Killington Resort:
store.g8wave.com/killingtonwap
October 10th, 2008
These are heady times for Boston sports fans. The Celtics NBA Championship last night, combined with the Red Sox World Series win last Fall, and an almost-perfect NFL season by the Patriots, has provided an unbelievable run of success for Boston fans.
The good folks at Boston.com have come through as well, providing a mobile version of their website covering all things Boston. Bostonians can now read all about their successes wherever they are, and no doubt brag about it to whomever they’re with.
Oh and by the way, a quick gander at the sports section shows that a Red Sox rookie pitched a no-hitter today in his second major league start. What is going on? There must be something in the water in Beantown.
Mobile Website:
mobile.boston.com
June 18th, 2008
I may just have a new favorite sports mobile website. And it’s not CBSSportsline, ESPN, or Yahoo!
While searching for the first round scores of the 2008 U.S. Open in Torrey Pines earlier today, I happened across SportsTap.
Dubbed “The Ultimate iPhone Sports Portal”, this mobile website displays current live scores from all types of sports. It has the look and feel of an iPhone app, but rest assured it displays just fine on most mobile browsers.
If you want to see the US Open leaderboard on SportsTap for yourself, have at it!
Mobile Website:
sportstap.mobi
June 12th, 2008
iGolfScorecard is a simple mobile web app for the iPhone or iTouch that acts as an electronic scorecard, allowing you to enter and track your scores on the golf course.
This mobile application includes a simple, intuitive interface, which is absolutely key for golfers that want to concentrate on their swing rather than some complicated application on their phone. There are plenty of other golf apps or mobile websites for the phone that include more complex features, but at some point it starts to become less about the game itself and more about how to use all the complex features.
I’m a golfer myself. In my mind, the iGolfScorecard could be a big hit among the technologically aware golfers that still want to concentrate on the game itself.
Mobile Web Application:
http://www.igolfscorecard.com
(hat-tip to KillerStartups.com)
May 26th, 2008
The NFL Draft kicks off on Saturday, April 26 at 3pm ET. For the many of us who have other plans on a Saturday afternoon, we still don’t have a good excuse to be in the dark about who became the first pick of the 2008 NFL draft.
The Miami Dolphins have the first pick of this year’s NFL Draft, and if you saw last year’s standings, you already know they will need it. The Dolphins are followed by the St. Louis Cardinals Rams, Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, and the Kansas City Chiefs round out the top five picks of the draft. While people talk all day about who will be the top pick, you can be one of the first to know, even while you are at your kid’s soccer game.
NFL Teams with Sprint
If you are a Sprint customer with a Vision or Power Vision Pack, you can get the NFL Mobile app at no extra charge. Sprint used to charge a monthly fee for this until the summer of 2006, so it’s great to have that option for free (for some reason, not many I talk to realize it’s free). Features include live game play-by-play, NFL Network broadcasts, and breaking news, inuries and stats.
For those interested, here’s how to get it:
- Text NFL to 7777.
- Visit sprint.com/nfl.
- Call 1-800-SPRINT-1
- Go to your local Sprint Store.
NFL Mobile for the Rest of Us
Of course, it’s not just Sprint users that will get see every pick of the 2008 NFL Draft on their mobile phone. If your phone is web-enabled, simply go to nfl.com from your mobile browser. You get to access just about all the NFL data you could possibly consume, and you can even text message your Jets fan friend on another awful pick for the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!
April 14th, 2008
A few weeks ago I mentioned how to get Masters scoring updates from Augusta.com. Well there are other golf tournaments besides the Masters, and they are almost year-round.
To get your weekly golf fix, or to find out if someone will actually beat Tiger this week, you may want to give the Golf Channel’s mobile website a swing.
In addition to tournament leaderboards and news, this mobile website also includes a golf tip of the day, full lessons, and even a little golf trivia just for fun.
Mobile Website:
TheGolfChannel.com
More on The Golf Channel for PDA:
http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=20025
Image courtesy of TheGolfChannel.com
March 21st, 2008
With March Madness heating up, the Masters right around the corner, and both the NBA and NHL post seasons becoming clearer, it’s time to remind everyone where to find “the worldwide leader in sports” on the mobile web.
ESPN has several mobile properties and services that continue to evolve. Below is a brief snapshot of the most popular services.
ESPN Mobile Website
(with graphics): http://espn.mobi
(without graphics): http://espn.go.com/wireless/palm/index.htm
ESPN MVP on Verizon Wireless:
http://estore.vzwshop.com/espnmvp
ESPN Mobile Alerts
Here’s how to sign up from your wireless carrier’s menu (instructions straight from the ESPN.com site):
Access ESPN Alerts from your mobile phone’s web browser:
* Sprint Customers: Menu -> Web -> Sports -> ESPN-> ESPN Alerts
* Verizon Customers: Menu -> Get it Now -> News & Info -> Sports -> ESPN -> ESPN Alerts
* AT&T (Cingular) Customers: Menu -> Media Net -> Sports -> ESPN-> ESPN Alerts
* Other Carriers: Type ESPN.mobi into your mobile phone browser or find ESPN on your carrier’s mobile web
Enjoy!
March 14th, 2008
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