First Look: Apple's New Sports App - Scores, Stats, and Surprising Features Revealed!
Apr 30, 2024
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Up next, okay we got the new sports app
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Apple released this week. That was kind of a curve ball, didn't see this coming
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Oh shoot, do I have this? A curve ball. Hello. Do we have a story on this
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Oh there it is. I'm looking right at it. Let me bring this up. So we got a new sports app
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Now look, I'm gonna make a full confession to you all. You may have guessed this, not a huge sports person
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Not a huge sports person. I've always been more of a music and the arts person
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But look, I got no hate for people that love sports. I actually, I like going to live games
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I never enjoyed watching sports on TV. But like there's a different energy when you go there in person
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But, on to the app. So of course, it's called Apple Sports, beautifully designed
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The new Apple Sports app is for iPhone. It gives fans access to real time scores, stats
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and more for their favorite teams across a wide range of sports leagues
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The free app launched Wednesday on the App Store. You can download it now. Have either of you played around with this yet
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Yeah, I wrote the how-to article on it. It's really nice. You just open it and instantly you see the scores
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of all the games that you wanna watch. Nice, are you a sports guy, Griffin? No
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I wouldn't have pegged you as a sports guy. Okay, I don't think any of us here are huge sports guys
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except for Lewis, who's one of the greatest darts player in known today
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I was very disappointed to see that there's no darts league. Yeah, that's a huge omission
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What an oversight. Massive oversight. Let's see, users of the newly released sports application
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can customize their scoreboards by following their favorite teams, tournaments, and leagues
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Fans can also get play-by-play information, team stats, lineup details. And here's what I thought was a little odd
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Live betting odds. I thought so too. I was shocked by that
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I thought that was oddly off-brand for Apple. Like, no hate, I don't know
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I don't really gamble. So, I know that there's a lot of companies
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that you can go to now to gamble on games and what have you. We've had several that have tried to advertise on this show
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which we've turned down because I don't wanna promote gambling stuff, just because I know sometimes people
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have problems with gambling, so I don't wanna be involved with that. If you gamble to make the sports more fun, whatever
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I don't do it myself, so I don't necessarily understand it, but it would make it, I guess
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it would add an element of risk to it, right? Which maybe makes it a little bit more exciting
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Way more exciting to watch when you got some money riding on the game. When you got 5K betting on it
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that you actually don't have in cash. Even just $5. Yeah, so maybe
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But I just thought that was an odd inclusion. I mean, clearly Apple knows what people want
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in a sports app, and so that probably came into the mix when they were doing their research
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on what people would want for features in a sports app. So it is in there
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Live betting odds. Let's see here. Different, what are these? It's like front and center too, man
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I mean, it is right at the top there. Yeah, I don't know if you can change that
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but it does seem to be pretty prevalent. MLS, NBA, NCAA, men's and women's, NHL
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Bundesliga, Bundesliga? Is that a German league? Bundesliga. I believe that is a German soccer league
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You know that I love Bundesliga. Fußball. Okay, we got LaLiga, Liga MX, League One, Premier League
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Serie A, I'm gonna guess a lot of these are soccer, AKA football
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Although, it's soccer. Additional leagues will become available on Apple Sports Overtime, including MLB, NFL
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NCAAF, NWSL, and WNBA. No darts here, Lewis. No darts. Heartbreaking. Wow, that is shocking
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Do they not know that darts is up and coming? And at one point will probably be
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one of the most exciting sports to watch. I mean, what's more exciting than watching
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middle-aged, overweight men throw small sticks at a board? Hey, they've got some
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there's some young whippersnappers in there now. Including a 17-year-old who came in second in the world
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Yeah, what do they call that guy? Luke the Nuke Littler. Luke the Nuke, man, that's one of the best
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that's one of the best nicknames I've ever heard. And you know what I like about darts is, because the sport itself is so boring
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the players have to be, they have to be like Elton John, man
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They have to be really fancy in their outfits and hairstyles and delivery
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And that's what makes it entertaining. They themselves have to be entertaining
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Well, some of them do. It's not like basketball. Some of them are just grimacing
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I mean, I'm surprised. I mean, we have bowling leagues and stuff that people watch
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I mean, that truly is the most boring sport that you could possibly ever watch
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But I'm sure there's others out there that I'm missing. Let's see here
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I think that pretty much covers that. So it's available in the app store. If you haven't downloaded it and you're into sports
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I don't know, check it out. Let me know what you think. I'd be curious to hear the opinions of someone who actually loves sports
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But it looks clean. And if you're trying to- It used to be buried inside the Apple News app
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Now it's broken out into its own thing that's much more accessible. That's a pretty big win for people who like sports
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I gotcha. Brandon says Prison Lou would be on his fantasy team. Oh man, Prison Lou
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He always wins. Because even when he loses, he wins. He knows how to get those
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He's gotta find a way. It's like if you're up, you know
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if you're up on Prison Lou, you might get a couple of darts in your kidney. And all of a sudden, uh-oh
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best player in the game had to take a break and go to the hospital. Lo and behold, his team now lost
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Okay
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