When will the internet ever care about sports?
September 28, 2013 11:00 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for a site or Chrome extension that will, with one click, show the scores of the teams I follow. All of them but no other teams.
Background. I used to use the Yahoo homepage. It had a "scoreboard" app that you could customize with just the teams you wanted to follow and it would show the upcoming games and the scores for just those teams.
It wasn't perfect. It often lagged or showed the wrong day. Whatever, it was OK enough.
But then I accidentally switched to the new Yahoo homepage and the scoreboard app sucks big time. (And they won't allow you to go back to the old version.)
1) You can set your team preferences but it's going to show all the scores anyway. If you're lucky your teams will be grouped near the top of the app. I don't care about any other scores. I don't want to see them unless I do in which case I'll go find them.
2) I'm in America and this app will not shot European sports scores. Specifically I need EPL and La Liga scores. The old app handled these badly (no Champions League scores, for ex.) but it was something better than nothing.
Question. So what I'm looking for is either a website that will show all the scores I want but no others (this can be a new homepage or some kind of specific sports page -- I don't care) or, a Chrome app (has to be Chrome -- I'm not switching browsers just for this) that with one click will show the scores. I do not want to have to click different tabs to see the scores or anything like that. Just all the scores I want all at the same time with one click.
If it links to some kind of updating boxscorey kind of thing that's a bonus but not necessary.
Surely in 2013's internet such an experience is possible and I'm just unable to find it?
Background. I used to use the Yahoo homepage. It had a "scoreboard" app that you could customize with just the teams you wanted to follow and it would show the upcoming games and the scores for just those teams.
It wasn't perfect. It often lagged or showed the wrong day. Whatever, it was OK enough.
But then I accidentally switched to the new Yahoo homepage and the scoreboard app sucks big time. (And they won't allow you to go back to the old version.)
1) You can set your team preferences but it's going to show all the scores anyway. If you're lucky your teams will be grouped near the top of the app. I don't care about any other scores. I don't want to see them unless I do in which case I'll go find them.
2) I'm in America and this app will not shot European sports scores. Specifically I need EPL and La Liga scores. The old app handled these badly (no Champions League scores, for ex.) but it was something better than nothing.
Question. So what I'm looking for is either a website that will show all the scores I want but no others (this can be a new homepage or some kind of specific sports page -- I don't care) or, a Chrome app (has to be Chrome -- I'm not switching browsers just for this) that with one click will show the scores. I do not want to have to click different tabs to see the scores or anything like that. Just all the scores I want all at the same time with one click.
If it links to some kind of updating boxscorey kind of thing that's a bonus but not necessary.
Surely in 2013's internet such an experience is possible and I'm just unable to find it?
Response by poster: What part of Google? I looked at Google News and Google + but couldn't find any way of customizing the experience in the way I mentioned in my post.
posted by bfootdav at 12:06 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 12:06 PM on September 28, 2013
Response by poster: Thanks dgeiser, but as far as I can tell that's only available through iGoogle which is being discontinued November 1. Otherwise it does exactly what I want. If they make it a standalone thingy that would be great but I haven't seen any mention of that.
posted by bfootdav at 12:53 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 12:53 PM on September 28, 2013
Response by poster: I had tried that one but it doesn't appear to allow you to choose only your favorite teams. It also makes you click through tabs to see all the scores. And according to the reviews the MLB scores haven't worked in over a month.
posted by bfootdav at 1:19 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 1:19 PM on September 28, 2013
Not a browser extension, so sorry if this is a derailment, but if you have a smartphone, you can tell Google Now which teams you'd like to follow, and it'll update you before, during, and after the matches about the scores. Its coverage depends on your country and region and it doesn't have all the teams but it's really convenient when it works.
posted by procrastinator at 1:32 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by procrastinator at 1:32 PM on September 28, 2013
Response by poster: Yeah, that seems the way of things now (I've seen numerous phone apps that might do what I require). However, I have neither a smartphone or a dumbphone.
posted by bfootdav at 1:34 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 1:34 PM on September 28, 2013
I use Google Now for this on my phone. Not sure how it works in Chrome, but works damn fine on a Galaxy S4.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 2:15 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by JohnnyGunn at 2:15 PM on September 28, 2013
Response by poster: Google Now does not appear to be available for Chrome. But according to procarstinator I'm not sure it would meet all my requirements anyway(?).
posted by bfootdav at 3:04 PM on September 28, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 3:04 PM on September 28, 2013
Sport195 is what you are looking for. You do have to set it up for yourself and it may give you TMI but YMMV.
http://www.sport195.com/
posted by mearls at 7:22 PM on September 29, 2013
http://www.sport195.com/
posted by mearls at 7:22 PM on September 29, 2013
Response by poster: Hey mearls, I set up an account and added some teams. I don't know if this can be changed but it would only allow me to setup three sports and I need a few more than that. But whatever. Now that I have a bunch of teams entered in I cannot figure out to get it to show me today's results. And when I do manage to find the results for, say, the EPL it shows me all the results and not just for the teams I want. Ultimately, though, I want all the scores for my teams to show up on the same page at the same time so I don't have to do any extra clicking. Am I missing something?
posted by bfootdav at 7:42 PM on September 29, 2013
posted by bfootdav at 7:42 PM on September 29, 2013
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