Sportacular Update: (now includes push)

Hey All! As promised, here is the review of Sportacular with the new update. This new update has a couple new features but the one I really want to highlight is the push notifications for sports scores! Prior to thisupdate, I had been using SportsTap, which is a great app for push notification but I didnt like the user interface all that much. Now Sportacular has come out with an update that includes push! In this update you are able to choose from all the sports that my previous review mentioned. You can have pushes sent to you: whenever the game starts, at the end of each inning, at a score change, lead change, and the final score! Right after I downloaded the update, this became my full time sports scores/news/schedule app. I got rid of SportsTap. Check out this app today! There is both a FREE version and a PRO version for $1.99.

Boulder CO College Sports Fan

Here is a great app for fans of CU Boulder! Woo! And yes, I do realize this doesn't apply to too many people checking out my blog. Lucky for you the developer created this exact same app for a number of college sports powerhouses. They include: The Arkansas Razorbacks, The Texas Longhorns, The Ohio State Buckeyes, The Oklahoma Sooners, The Texas Tech Red Raiders, The Tennessee Volunteers, The Nebraska Cornhuskers, The Alabama Crimson Tide, The Michigan Wolverines, The Florida Gators, The Notre Dame Fightn' Irish, The Kansas Jayhawks, and The Oklahoma State Cowboys. Thats all of them, phewff! This app is great for the college student, hardcore fan, or even the casual one. Keep up on your college sports scores and news from your favorite college team. The app delivers top news from your school as well as news and scores for all the sports your school offers. CU Boulder offers Football, Men's Basketball, Woman's Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball, Men's Golf, Woman's Golf, Tennis, Skiing, Track and Field, and XCountry. Check it out in the App Store today! It is $0.99 and totally worth it! :D

Baseball Slugger: Home Run Race 3D

Baseball Slugger is a great home run competition app for the iPhone made by Com2uS! It is a great app for the casual baseball fan or even the intense fan who never leaves his or her seat during a game. The whole point of the game is to hit homeruns, and hit them far!
On the menu screen there are a few options: Play, Settings, Help, About, and More Games. All of these selections lead to more screens where you can mess around with the options to get the game playing how you would like.
I am going to focus on the Play menu. Inside the Play option there are four categories: Matchup, Arcade, Classic, and Training as well as some choices to change your ball player and what he is wearing as well as playing online with another person!
The Matchup is the online feature that pairs you with a person somewhere else in the world who chose the same settings as you. Then the goal of the game is to hit as more homeruns than the other guy. Each homerun gives you more points, and more points allows you to personalize your character even more.
Arcade mode and Classic mode are almost identical. The only difference between the two is how the score is kept. In Aracde mode, you hit homeruns and get points for them, whereas in Classic mode, it is strickly how many you can hit in before reaching 10 outs.
The last mode is Training. This mode allows the player to choose the pitcher style, if he is left handed/right handed, and how fast he throws the ball. I really reccomend you check out this great app called Baseball Slugger! It is $0.99 in the App Store! :D

Sports Tap

Alright guys! Here is the other sports app I promised you I would review, and this one has push-notifications! It is called (drum roll please....) Sports Tap! For push-notifications all you have to do is go the the little wi-fi looking icon in the app. So far the app only offers push for MLB and the CFL. But this should be expanding with the football season on the horizon.
In addition to push, this app has a really cool feature called localtap. Tap the localtap icon in the app on the bottom right of the screen and you will be shown a screen in which you can break down the search by 50 miles, 100 miles, or 200 miles. This is great if you are new to a city and want to find the nearest sporting event or if you want to head to a college sporting event with the family and you are not which school is the closest.
Like Sportacular, you too can search games by date in this app, going all the way to the beginning of the season. Please check out this app in the App Store. It is FREE. Personally I still use Sportacular as my all the time sports app, but this is a great addition to any sports fan with the much needed and appreciated push-notifications.

Sportacular

Here is a great sports' scores app for the iPhone. It is called Sportacular. It was created by CitizenSports. There are many great features one might be looking for in a sports scores app. This app offers 17 different sports. They include MLB, NFL, NCAA FB, NBA, NCAA Mens BB, NHL, MLS, PGA, LPGA, PGA Champions, PGA Nationwide, PGA European, NCAA Womens BB, English Premier, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, and German Bundesliga.
There are five tabs at the bottom of the app: Scores, Standings, News, My Picks, and More.
A really cool feature on this app is that you can go back in time to the beginning of the season to looks at any score that may have been played. From there you can find out the final score, breakdown of the score, and the stats for the game for each team. You can also go forward in time to see when a specific game will be played and the time and date of the game. This is a great tool if you are trying to plan ahead for those Giants tickets for dad's birthday. Under the standings tab you will find the standings for each league, each divison, and also the wild card races if you are looking at the baseball one, as well as the playoff brackets.
Under the news tab you will find the latest news for the sport you selected. This is a great way to keep up to date on all trades and injury reports for your fantasy leagues.
A really neat feature in Sportacular is that you can have a "profile" where you can make picks for the sports and see how you do against the other iPhone users with this app. You can also link this profile to facebook, which is a great way to spread out the competition to a whole new level.
All in all this is a great app that I downloaded right when I got my iPhone. It is great for checking the scores really quick, talking smack with some friends, or just figuring out how your team ended up winning in the 11th inning. Check out Sportacular in the App Store. Its a FREE app, and totally worth it for any sports fan, casual or dedicated! The only downside that I have noticed is that this app does not support push-notifications. There is a sports app that does though. : D Keep your eye out for it. It will be my next post!