Just posted on Six Colors: Apple Sports: A free iPhone app to get you the score, fast

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Apple Sports: A free iPhone app to get you the score, fast

The Apple Sports app wants to get you scores, fast. If you know one thing about Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, it’s probably this: Eddy Cue loves sports. He’s frequent…

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My first observation upon loading the app is that while it supports many European leagues, it doesn't support the Champions League, so it's telling me Arsenal is idle until Saturday when it actually plays today. Hmm.

If you ever wanted to know what kind of stranglehold the NFL has over American sports, I've already received four comments from people about how a scores app doesn't show NFL scores, less than two weeks after the NFL season finished and six months before it begins.

As my story says: NFL and NCAAF will be there, they're just not there now because their seasons just ended. There are no scores.

@jsnell Full disclosure — I also didn’t really read the article, but my assumption was the app would be more like the Stocks app, where you’d follow a team and get news. I followed a few of my baseball favorites — on seeing the void, I quickly figured out it’s just scores. Which is fine, but sort of seems like a missed opportunity. Perhaps they’re reserving the sporting news for the News+ app (which is its own little dumpster fire, but that’s another thread).
@drgardner that feature is already in the News app, actually. And syncs. This stuff is spread across News, TV, and Sports. Yeah it's a lot.