ESPN Sports Alerts: The Best Thing Since Half-time
I can’t tell you how little I care about sports.
I couldn’t care less that it’s football season, and that’s kind of scandalous if you know anything about me. I really should care about football—I’m from a football-crazed family. And I really should care about Alabama football—I went to UA as an undergrad and played a pretty big role in the team spirit department.
But the thing is, I was always more interested in watching the half-time show and never gave a rip about what came before or after it. And despite the fact that everyone who knows me knows that I don’t care, I still hear the question “What did you think of the game?” and I never know what to say.
What’s the point, you ask. The point is that I just signed up for ESPN’s sports alerts. Why? Because now I can find out who won without actually watching any football at all.
The ESPN alert program allows you to pick the sports, teams, and types of alerts you’d like to receive. After signing up as an ESPN.com member, you can go to http://proxy.espn.go.com/mobile/alerts/signup and sign up for team scores, breaking news alerts, NASCAR alerts, and even fantasy news for the sport of your choice. It even lets you set the time frame in which you’d like to receive the alerts, so you’ll never get an alert at 10pm, that is, unless you want it.
The program offers alerts for MLB, NFL, NBA, NCAA Football, and NCAA Basketball. This is pretty cool for me, and it’s probably pretty freaking awesome for someone who’s actually a sports fan. So if you are, check it out.
And now, a note to my family: please don’t disown me.