March Madness is in full swing as the nation’s best college hoops teams face off in this year’s NCAA Basketball tournament, and there is no shortage of online applications looking to help you keep tabs on your favorite teams.
CBS has built an iPhone application that allows users to stream live video of any NCAA basketball game, provided they are on a Wi-Fi network (you can only listen to an audio feed if you are on 3G or Edge). The requirement for Wi-Fi obviously isn’t ideal and you’ll still have to watch commercials, but for $5 the application is certainly worth it if you’re an avid basketball fan. If you’re on a PC, you can also stream games free of charge from the official NCAA site.
Another option for getting basketball news delivered to your phone is Buzzwire, which specializes in mobile content. By visiting m.buzzwire.com from your mobile phone and selecting ‘March Madness’, users can view a list of relevant news articles pulled from a variety of sources, including ESPN, CBS Sports, and Sports Illustrated.
If you’re not content to just follow the news and want to make sure your friends know as well, a service called Final Four 09 will automatically tweet scores and news updates from your Twitter account (after you enter your credentials). The system is fairly easy to use – just check off the teams you’d like to broadcast about. But don’t check off too many teams or your followers are likely to get sick of your constant tweeting. As an incentive to help the app go viral, you can earn points for having your Twitter followers join the service (at the end of the tournament the user with the most points wins a Flip Mino HD camcorder).
I’ve been trying to figure out how to watch the march madness on my iphone. Thanks tcrunch.
iPhone sucks dude.
The iPhone app has terrible audio lag … like 3-5 seconds. So be prepared for disappointment.
The official NCAA site is availible on Mac if you use the HQ player. The HQ player users Silverlight 2.
watching the tourney on my big ass hd tv
Holding steady on my brackets so far.
Watchin on my BIG TV.
While not a mobile app, you can also keep track of games in progress using StatSheet’s Game Flow Scoreboard:
http://statshee...&reload=off
what a worthless post! amazing insight here..pfff
Follow the twitter chat by team during March Madness at http://s.tEarn.com/. Try it. Beware it’s addicting.
ahhhhhhhhhhh i like that teamwork and babylon
I don’t even like march!
I’ll just try Final Four 09.. I’ll just check my tweeter account every now and then..
Final Four 09 is a cool tool. Very cool if you are an avid sports fan because it tweets more than just scores.
It is cool to see how Twitter is being used for stuff like this. It is becoming an awesome notification platform!
If you’re not on a mobile, YouTube has the best service available. They even have a “Boss Button” for when your boss walks by
http://www.yout...om/marchmadness
It is, unfortunately, using Silverlight.
March Madness is exactly that some Mad Hatter came up with the STUPID idea to interup regular TV and have a bunch of guys chasing a basketball up and down a court. It would be okay if they would telivise it on some sports cable channel…but I only have rabbit ear Tv and DO NOT want to watch this crap. Sorry for you “sports fans” but it sucks. We pay those guys TOO MUCH money for that anyway…and let the people who matter starve on meager salaries….March Madness….pull the plug and it will go away….soon…I hope.
Thanks tcrunch, but ı guess there is a problem in Turkey on turkish version?
I use Plusmo’s College Basketball Live App:
http://itunes.a...769577&mt=8
I heard there’s going to be a Windows Mojave- powered app to help folks watch the NIT Tournament.