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Free localized sports--in realtime
One of the toughest things about being a local online sports fan is getting up-to-the-minute scores and play-by-play action on your favorite sports teams. Sure, you could watch the game on local TV coverage. But if you're a frequent traveler or just somebody who spends a lot of nights out, it's not easy to catch third-and-long every time it happens, especially when the team you follow is a high school football team, or worse still, a pro hockey team, whose games aren't often broadcast on the radio. The answer? Your WiFi-enabled laptop, of course. Most large sports organizations like Major League Baseball and the National Football League now offer play-by-play game charts that are updated just seconds after each play. MLB's free online coverage (called "game-day" on your favorite team's home page) even gives you an animated field diagram with pitch-by-pitch updates, so even if you're in Timbuktu, you'll still get the realtime nittygritty on your favorite team.
Liveblogging has recently become a prevalent online outlet for local sports coverage, too. With many high school football games not being publicized until the next day, it's good to know some folks are liveblogging them. In the cab of your big rig on the way to Idaho on a Friday night, find a WiFi connection and you can still keep up on what happened in your kid's division II high school action. You'll be able to catch box scores updated in realtime if you know where to look.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Brian said 2:43PM on 9-12-2007
The NHL has offered free streaming audio (Home and Away commentary) for the past few years.
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