Category: Sports

May 16 2013

From Putt Putt To The Pros – Golf Apps That Will Help Improve Your Game

Any golfer knows that having the right golf club for the right occasion makes all the difference in the world, just like being dressed appropriately for an interview can make the difference between being passed over and hired. While some golfers will tell you that their natural abilities more than make up for any added advantages on the course, most people know that having the right tools at your disposal have a profound impact on how you play the game. These days, apps are the newest tool a golfer can have on the go for whatever situation may arise. We’ve outlined the best golfing apps you should consider for your mobile device – whether you are on the course or at home.

Golf Rules Quick Ref

When playing with your buddies, the occasional squabble over what is allowed and what is not is bound to pop up. With access to Golf Rules Quick Ref, you can be the referee of the disputes – much to the chagrin of the person who is in the wrong. Within this digital catalogue is virtually every rule in existence, giving even tough interpretations no room for error. Don’t know the exact rule or term you are looking for? No problem. This intuitive app is great at understanding what you are looking for using select keywords. This app can be picked up for just $9.99 and is the best app of its kind available.

Download IOS Version from itunes

My Pro to Go

Having an instructor watch your swings is not always feasible or affordable – until My Pro to Go came into existence, that is. This free app allows you to record your swings (choose from either front or back angle) and upload the video to the My Pro to Go database. If you wish, you can request further instruction and evaluation via a professional instructor, who will also provide customised drills for you to improve your swing and a live follow-up session. Other than being able to video yourself, however, the lesson plans and evaluation cost approximately $40.

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Golfshot: Golf GPS

Have you ever wanted an interactive map of the golf course you are playing without having to drag out a folded, cumbersome version? Thanks to Golfshot: Golf GPS ($30), you can create such a map on your mobile phone using Google Earth or Bing imagery, allowing you to zoom in on any and every hole to determine how best to make the next shot. You can calculate distances from your current location to the hole, as well as from the tee to green. It also gives you the ability to track any fairways that have been hit, and this app works on over 38,000 golf courses by last count.

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Visulax Golf

Technique may be everything in the moment, but try having the proper technique if you are not relaxed and focused. Visulax Golf ($5) is an app that helps golfers get into the mood at each hole, by showing players how to block out distractions, focus on the putt and keep the body relaxed so that your putt or swing can flow as it should. This app also offers the ability for you to set goals and monitor progress – think of this app as your very own golf therapist, one that costs a mere fraction of the real deal.

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Nick Knight is a titleist golf putter. He simply adores the sport and is at it whenever time permits him. He is a tech savvy person and has listed some useful apps in this post for people interested in the sport.

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Sep 18 2012

Fantasy Football

Football season is off and running, and if you’re like me, you’re involved in a few fantasy leagues. Remember to keep track of all your leagues with fantasy football apps. We can’t always be near a TV to watch the games, or near a computer to make line up changes. With Fantasy Football apps, we can manage our teams from anywhere. Whether you’re in a Yahoo, ESPN, or NFL league, there are apps for them.

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Description: Yahoo! Fantasy Football, the #1 Free Fantasy Football game, comes to Android.

If you can’t live without Fantasy Football, download the app now! Whether you want quick fantasy updates or a game day couch companion, the Yahoo! Fantasy Football Android app delivers real-time live scoring, matchups, player stats, and more so you can manage your team at home or on the road.

Features:
• Live Scoring: Follow your team, league, and player stats during games in real time.
• Roster Management: Injured QB? Start your backup or find a replacement right from the app. View and set your lineup for today and upcoming weeks by clicking on the Edit icon on your team page.
• Track matchups: View your past, present, and future matchups
• Breaking Player News and Roto Arcade: Keep up with the latest updates without having to look for them.
• Full message board access once your league drafts.
• Login with Facebook and Google in addition to Yahoo!
• Manage trades right from your phone (Propose from Player Details page and view in your team Transactions)
• Follow League Transactions (Transaction icon on top of league page)
• Access your Watch List (Option listed under “Status” category of Player Search tab). Add/Delete from Watch List using the flag icon in the Player Details and Search Results pages.
• Link to Yahoo! Sportacular App for real game info

Cost: Free

Yahoo offers a really well done app. With Yahoo being one of the most popular fantasy leagues, it’s no surprise Yahoo has the best fantasy football app.

Download Here From Google Play

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Description: With the ESPN Fantasy Football 2012 app, you can manage multiple teams and leagues, follow your matchups in real-time, add/drop/trade players, and make last-second lineup changes from wherever you are. Spend your Sundays constantly connected to all of your leagues and teams and you won’t miss the chance to grab that backup RB turned fantasy stud. The ESPN Fantasy Football App provides the added advantage you need to dominate your fantasy league.

Features include:
•Team Management: Start/bench players, add, drop, and claim players off waivers, propose, accept or reject trades with other managers
•FantasyCast Live Scoring and Stats: Real-time scoring and detailed information for all your matchups.
•Personalized Push Notifications for injuries, substitutions, and scoring updates.
•Fantasy News, Videos and Tweets from ESPN’s fantasy analysts.
•View and post messages to your league’s message board

Download now because there’s no better time to check on your fantasy teams, than anytime you please.

Cost: Free

Espn’s fantasy football app is kind of glitchy. It’s not very user friendly and needs a lot of work.

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Description: Manage your NFL Fantasy Football teams with the official mobile app for 2012!

The official NFL.com Fantasy Football app is your ultimate fantasy companion on the go:
· Live Scoring – Follow your teams and players in real time.
· Registration – No team yet? Sign up on your phone and get started today.
· Set Your Lineup – Start or bench players on the go.
· Transactions – Improve your team with players adds, drops and trades.
· Player News – Get official news and injury updates, direct from NFL.com.
· Manage Multiple Teams – Access and control all of your NFL.com teams and leagues.
· More Coming Soon – Look for more new features before the start of the 2012 NFL season.

Cost: Free

The NFL fantasy football app is slow and laggy. Seems to be full of glitches also. You’re better off logging into the NFL fantasy football website.

Download Here From Google Play

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Feb 11 2012

New York Knicks Official App

Description: The New York Knicks Official Android App

Download the New York Knicks Official Android App for the KnicksNow fan community. 24/7 Knicks coverage wherever you go. Get the latest Knicks news, videos, photo galleries, and social feeds from KnicksNow.com.

The New York Knicks Official App includes the following features:
- Exclusive, behind the scenes Knicks coverage from the MSG Training Center, The Garden, and on the road
- Video including one-on-one player interviews, press conferences, off-court events, practice footage, exclusive player videos and links to game highlights on KnicksNow.com
- Photo galleries from practices, games, and off the court
- Knicks Facebook and Twitter feeds
- Interactive Knicks schedule and player cards
- Live game scores and stats
- Ticket information and links to purchase

Cost: Free

Developer: MSGI

I’m getting caught up in the Linsanity!

Jeremy Lin has taken the league by storm and saving the New York Knicks season and coach Mike Dantoni’s job in the process. Before Jeremy Lin got playing, the Knicks offense was flailing with poor point guard play and abysmal effort. Mike Dantoni must have been hearing all the “fire Mike Dantoni” rumblings and in willing to try anything, played a bunch of his bench players for extended minutes against the Houston Rockets on January 28th, 2012, either hoping to light a fire under his starters or finding somebody on his bench that could produce. Even though the Knicks lost that game, Jeremy Lin looked like a serviceable point guard scoring 9 points, dishing out 6 assists, and grabbing 3 rebounds in 20 minutes of play. Fast forward 4 game later to the New York Knicks vs the New Jersey Nets game. The New York Knicks had lost 11 of their last 13 games. Jeremy Lin came off the bench again and tallied 25 ponts, 7 assists, and 5 rebounds in 36 minutes of playing time and helping the New Yorks Knicks to a win. Jeremy was proving Lin-stant offense and Mike Dantoni had finally found a point guard on the Knicks roster that can run his offense effectively. The legend has grown from there. As of this writing, Jeremy has garnered the starting point guard role and lead the Knicks to 4 straight wins, with crazy stats. Here’s his stat line for those games below.

Date Opponent Result MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OFF DEF REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
Regular
Feb 10 vs. LAL W 92 – 85 39 13 – 23 2 – 4 10 – 13 1 3 4 7 2 0 6 1 38
Feb 08 @ WAS W 107 – 93 36 9 – 14 0 – 3 5 – 6 1 3 4 10 1 1 2 3 23
Feb 06 vs. UTA W 99 – 88 45 10 – 17 1 – 3 7 – 9 1 1 2 8 2 0 8 1 28

 

I decided to check out the New York Knicks App to keep up with the Jeremy Lin hype. Sadly the New York Knicks app doesn’t hold up to the Jeremy Lin hype. The New York Knicks app is supposed to aggregate all the content from Knicksnow.com into one easy to use App. The content, video feeds, and pages on the app take forever to load and force closes frequently. You would be better off just opening a web browser and going to Knicksnow.com.
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Feb 11 2012

Vubooo

Description: Vubooo invites football fans to connect around live scores.
Vubooo app for football fans – keeps football/soccer fans connected via live scores.
What were you doing when:
- FC Barcelona & Manchester United met in the Champions League Final
- Rooney scored a beautiful goal for Manchester United in Old Trafford
- Lionel Messi scored his 200th goal for Barcelona
- Ronaldo won the Pichichi Trophy, wearing Real Madrid Jersey
- Liverpool won Champions League & Bayern Munich crowned Bundesliga champions
- Chelsea hosted Arsenal in the Premier League
Vubooo free app for phones & tablets invites football fans everywhere to support their favorite team in a virtual stadium.
Once checked-in to a game, the app starts sending the fan real-time alerts for live match events & stats.
Vubooo follows the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 & UEFA Champions League.

Cost: Free

Developer: Vubooo Ltd

I’m not much of a football fan, at least in terms of the international sense of football (huge NFL fan), but Vubooo seems like a nice way to keep track of football scores.

With Vubooo, you can check scores, follow other fans, check in to matches. Vubooo alerts you of events during the games.

Tell me what you think.

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Jan 31 2012

NBA Game Time 2011-2012

Description: Get the NBA in the palm of your hand! Updated for the 2011 season, NBA Game Time is the official app to follow the NBA wherever you are.

Game Time (FREE) features include:
- NEW! Customize to feature your favorite team
- NEW! Watch highlights from around the league
- Up to date news and info from around the league
- NEW! In-app alert capabilities
- NEW! Portrait and Landscape mode
- NEW! NBA Twitter feeds
- Play-by-play experience
- Stats, Scores, and schedules for every NBA game

Upgrade to Game Time Plus, features include:
- Contains all Game Time features
- Home and away live radio broadcasts of games
- NEW! In-progress video highlights
- Video highlights from around the league including NBA TV and TNT clips
- Full game video recaps
- NEW! Improved video layout
- More stats, League and Team news, and League Leaders
- Advertising FREE

Upgrade to watch live regular season games via NBA League Pass Mobile, features include:
-Contains all Game Time and Game Time Plus features
-Live streaming of NBA regular season games (Blackout Restrictions Apply)
-Full season archives
-Live In-Game stats overlay

*Blackout restrictions apply to local and national broadcast games

Cost: Free/ $7.99 for Game Time Plus/ $39.99 for NBA League Pass Mobile

Developer: NBA

NBA Game Time 2011-2012 is a great way to follow the NBA, but not to watch it.

With the basic edition you get scores, schedules , news and videos of highlights for the past couple days. You have to sit through an ad before you watch a highlight video.

Upgrade to Game Time Plus for $7.99 to watch live game highlights and game recaps, live radio broadcasts, ad Free, and more.

Upgrade to NBA League Pass Mobile for $39.99 to watch Live Regular Season NBA Games + all the features of Game Time Plus. You also get access to archived games. Blackouts rules apply, you can see them here. The main things to note in the black out rules are games are blacked out if they are in your local market or if they are televised nationally on cable or NBA TV. So if you’re hoping to watch games of your local team, forget about it. If you’re hoping to watch teams like the Lakers or Heat, you’re going to miss a big chunk of games, because those teams are always playing on cable networks like TNT and ESPN. The streaming picture quality of the games are not great, but watchable. I blew up the picture to give you a sense of the quality to expect. The motion is smooth but pixelated as long as you have decent data speed. I’m don’t get any buffering at 4MBPS. For the price, I’m not sure it is worth it. I would say it might be worth it if the picture quality was better.

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Feb 26 2010

SportsTap

Description: SportsTap is the ultimate mobile sports portal.  Access all the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Football & Basketball, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, Soccer and Futbol scores and stats from anywhere, or follow local teams wherever you are on LocalTap.

Version: 2.4.3

Cost: Free

Developer: Mobile1Sports

I’ve got to say SportsTap is one of the best sports event tracking apps I’ve tried. It tracks various sports from different leagues. The sports it tracks are as listed:

Football – NFL, NCAA, AFL, and CFL
MLB
Basketball – NBA and NCAA (Womans and Mens)
NHL
Auto Racing – NASCAR (Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series, Truck Series) F1 and Indy Car
Futbol (Soccer) – England, Italia, Espana, Germany, France, Scotland, Dutch, USA, Brasil, Argentina, Mexico, UEFA Cup, UEFA Champions and World Cup
Golf – PGA, LPGA, Champions, Nationwide, Europe, and Canada
Tennis – ATP and WTA

As a bonus, the 2010 Winter Olympics is going on and it’s tracking the Winter Olympics.

For each sport it displays recent stats, results, standings, news and photos. For some of the sports, such as basketball and football, it will also show game projections (the favorite and underdog, top player stats), spread, over under, scores from their last games, and a preview of the game.

Set up “Favorite Teams” from NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA Football and Men’s Basketball. Then set up alerts when your favorite team plays.

This is the most comprehensive sports tracking app I’ve tried.


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Feb 01 2010

Live Scores

Description: Simple, fast scores for NFL, NCAA, College Football, NBA, NCAA, Basketball, MLB and NHL.  Live play-by-play, stats and standings and a whole lot more coming soon.

Heads up:  Use the Menu to switch between leagues.

Version: 1.3

Cost: Free

Developer: Sportacular / Citizens Sports

Live Scores is a solid sports scores app.  One of the best attributes is it gives scores for NFL, NCAA College Football, NBA, NCAA Basketball, MLB and NHL, so you don’t need a separate App to check all these leagues.  The major stats are recorded for each sport.  It also lists scoring drives in football and hockey.

It also gives the major news and standings for each sport.


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Jan 21 2010

Pro Basketball Scores

Description: Pro Basketball Scores gives fans all of the information they crave:  live scores, breaking news and one touch access from a personalized home page.

Version: .99 beta

Cost: Free

Developer: Plusmo, Inc.

Pro Basketball Scores is a good app, but would be a great App if it fixed a few things.

# 1.  It takes a while to load and it accesses the gps at start up.  I’m not sure why it would need to access the GPS, there’s no option to track teams closest to your location.

#2.  I doesn’t save your teams when you select “my teams” to track.  It supposed to save, but it wasn’t working for me.  Every time I restarted the app, “my teams” would be blank, even though I saved them before.

#3.  The latest news option doesn’t work

Now on to what this App does well.

There’s a bar at the top that scrolls through the scores of the night.  Click on the score and it will show the stats from the game.   Assist, rebounds and points will be listed.  There’s another tab for a recap of the game and a tab for chat.  The chat function is cool so you can trash talk throughout the game.

There’s options to list all the scores from the night or previous nights, standings, and the 2 options that didn’t work (“my teams” and latest news).

If this app fixed the few things that didn’t work, I’d be inclined to use it more.

Edit – I’m not sure if it’s on the Android Market anymore.

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Dec 12 2009

Basketball Tactics

Description: Playing basketball is fun. The Basketball Tactics App are here to help your play. You can see the animated basketball play diagram in this app.

Develop your own basketball playing!

Develop your own basketball coaching!

Tactics about 2-3 zone attack, 3-2 zone attack 1-2-2 zone attack and so on are in this app.

Version: 1.0

Cost: Free

Developer: Coconut Labs

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Ever wonder what a 2 – 3 zone is or a 1-2-2 zone is and how to break it? Probably not. But if you have, you could check out this app to see an animation of it. It shows how the plays are run and provides a brief summary.  It gives you an understanding of the basketball sets, but there isn’t an option to design your own plays and see how it plays out.  I only checked it out because I’m a basketball junkie but I don’t know if most people would bother with it.

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