Follow March Madness On Your Phone

Our readers that live outside of the United States might not understand what March Madness means, so let me try to briefly explain. Every year there is a huge tournament of 64 college basketball teams during the month of March. The games are played on Thursday thru Sunday for three weeks, and many of the games at the beginning of the tournament are played during the afternoon and evening. It has become tradition for people to try and pick the winners for each game, all the way through the tournament, therefore many people have an interest in knowing the scores of the games as they occur throughout the day, and mobile phones are great tools for tracking the tournament results.

For those who want to follow the NCAA Mens basketball tournament on their phone, there are a few options, depending on your phone. The official CBS iPhone application, CBS Sports NCAA March Madness on Demand, has the most update-to-date information and provides live streaming of all tournament games, and costs $9.99. CBS also provides a free iPhone app for all of their sports coverage called CBS Sports Mobile. If you want to enter and keep track of your picks for the tournament on your iPhone, there is the $.99 March Brackets application.These are really just a highlight of the basketball applications for the iPhone, if you search on basketball or march madness you will find more, many of them for specific teams. You will find these applications in the iTunes App Store.

Unfortunately, the options for Android users is more limited. Plusmo’s College Basketball Live is a free application that provides live scores, schedules, and breaking news. Pure Concept’s PocketBracket is the app for creating and tracking NCAA tournament picks, but it costs $1.99. The same application is available for the iPhone for $.99. You will find these applications in the Android Market.

Fewer options appear to be available for Windows Mobile Users, though an an article on Microsoft’s web site titled…

Keeping Up With March Madness: RSS and Streaming Video

..describes how you can keep up with scores and news on Windows Mobile phones using web sites and RSS feeds, or watch streaming video using a Slingbox and the Windows Mobile SlingPlayer client. Obviously, most of the mobile sports web sites will have scores and you can access them using any mobile web browser.

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