theScore: Sports News & Scores

The Score is still my favorite sports app, but I feel that it is falling behind in a couple of regards. One is the ability to pay for an ad-free option. Particularly with soccer apps, an ad-free option is standard for a small annual fee. It would be nice if the Score could offer something similar - the ads are not only annoying, but cause the app to become a battery hog at times, limiting the amount of time I spend on the app. Secondly, the app struggles to render external links. Apps like Yahoo Sports, One Football, etc. have gotten a lot better about featuring content from external sites but rendered cleanly in-app rather than forcing you to go to the external site itself. But even when they do force to go outside the app, those pages load much more quickly and clearly than they do inside the Score (and avoid the big intrusive black bar at the top of the screen that the Score always seems to have). Twitter videos also embed much more cleanly in their articles than they do on the Score. It’s getting to the point where I ignore the “favorites” section altogether, because it is predominantly populated with external links.

Last spring, I heard the greatness news in my life since the birth of my children. I heard “the Supreme Court has just overturned the illegality of sports betting in America. It’s now legal for states to legalize sports betting everywhere instead of just Vegas and Atlantic City”. At that precise moment, TheScore became my most important application on my phone besides the news apps. Without this app, I would not be on my quest to becoming a professional sports bettor. It’s up to date betting info has become so important to a bettor, I can’t see not having this app and not making a profit in the business. The chat section has brought interactivity to fans and professionals alike. The only thing missing from this app is the game numbers assigned by Vegas. I see this app becoming an instrument for betting in the near future as well based on jurisdictions. Even though it’s an informational data generator, it too will be huge to novices that want to dabble... I love you The Score. We will be together forever...

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I’ve previously reviewed the app and have always felt that the score tracking has been phenomenal compared to other apps. But I’ve also always had an issue with the news content. Sports is an escape from other things going on in most people’s lives, but far too often theScore brings politically opinionated articles into their feed. I rely on the news feed to stay on top of things going on in the sports that I wish to follow, but I do not expect to see articles that vaguely have anything to do with sports, and are instead geared towards influencing reader’s politically opinions. I cannot simply filter out these articles either as I have to scroll past them, seeing their titles which inferiorates me that this app would post such bias garbage. I’m moving on and not coming back this time. They already had a second chance from me when they stopped posting an ex-writer’s articles that were much of the same. EDIT IN RESPONSE TO THE DEVELOPER: The political bias on the app and the censoring of comments that don’t agree with that bias do not support your claim of politics and sports “naturally” intersecting. If your claim was true, we would not be subject to the writers opinions on the matter, rather just be presented with what occurred (which I would be fine with by the way). Unfortunately, the writers give their opinions and portray different viewpoints negatively.

This has been my go to sports app for a long time. I like the set up for the most part and it’s pretty up to date with some good features, but there are some features that have been taken away and I’m wondering why. I frequently look at stats of a player (mainly nba and nfl) or of a team, and turned my phone to landscape to enable the feature to see all the stats easily across the screen. It also use to show the stats for the entire year of that player at the top (I.e. shots made/shots attempted, among other stats) and you took it away? A while back you also took away the ability to compare player stats. And there have been another unique features that set you apart from other sports apps that you’ve removed. Hoping these things come back. And if users have been complaining about those features then maybe include the ability to turn them on or off in settings?

I love the look of this! Great info and cosmetically very appealing! The only things I would change have to do with the in-game app. For example when following a football game, which I do a lot on mobile, I like to see what exactly happened on every play. Who caught it or ran it, for how many yards and where exactly on the field the ball ended up. The Score app just says something like “NE pass to Pit 25.” Nog nearly enough information there. Needs to be much more specific. Second, the scoring plays should be in descending order top to bottom. Scoring plays in the 4th and 2nd quarter above those in the 1st quarter? Confusing. Lastly, please change the look of the in-game football field. The field should have the major yard lines marked with an arrow indicating where the ball is. It’s a little hard to tell right now exactly where the ball is. If you changed those few things I’d say it’s a flawless app!