Category Archives: Sports

Mobile March Madness

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That’s the annual NCAA College Basketball Championships on your mobile. Popularly known as March Madness, the two tournaments (one for men’s teams the other for the women) each pit the top 65 US college teams in a 3 week long single elimination tournament. March Madness is easily the most popular college sports event in the country. I think its appeal is due to the large number of teams, increasing the likelihood of your alma mater participating, and for gamblers the … Continue reading →

Formula One Mobile

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The Formula One auto racing season kicks off next Sunday with the Melbourne Grand Prix. Here’s a look at some sites that let you follow the F1 circus on your mobile phone. F1-Live.com: I’ve just found an i-mode version of the elusive F1-Live mobile site. F1-Live has some of the best F1 coverage on the mobile web with daily news and very detailed live reports. There are lots of photos and it’s all presented in a mobile friendly and reasonably … Continue reading →

Shralp! Cell Phone snowboard videos

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shralp.com is a one year old snowboarding video blog (vlog) site. Shralp releases a new video every Sunday. You can view the videos in your browser on the Shalp! PC site. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the videos. These are not your typical YouTube amateur videos. Production values are high and the images visually exciting. Shralp seems to “get” the potential of mobile video too. Right from the beginning, Shralp! has had a companion mobile web site … Continue reading →

NASCAR Mobile

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The NASCAR season is almost over but I just found these sites and wanted to share the discovery. NASCAR is the most popular US auto racing series. To European (and many American) motorsports fans it’s a bit weird. Billed as stock car racing, the cars are anything but stock. They look like typical US 2 door mid size cars from a distance but really consist of a handmade tubular chassis, with a full roll cage to protect the drivers, covered … Continue reading →

NBA Mobile

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The NBA (National Basketball Association) season started Nov 1st. NBA.com has a mobile site at nba.mobi that lets you follow the games on the mobile web. It’s an OK site but I was hoping for a little more. NBA.com Mobile has league news, scores, schedules and statistics. The news items are mostly post-game wrap ups and are pretty short – just a sentence or two. The scores page lists all of today’s games with current scores, quarter and minutes to … Continue reading →

NBC Sports Mobile

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NBC Sports (mobile.nbcsports.com) “Sports” is kind of a misnomer for this site. As of this writing in October, 2006 NBC Sports Mobile is covering only one sport – NFL Football. Last week’s baseball World Series was never mentioned on NBC Sports Mobile! Not that it’s a bad football site – for pigskin fans the site is interesting with lots of game photos, scores, player stats, week by week schedules, game recaps, injury lists and news and features about notable players. … Continue reading →

The World Series on Your Phone

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The “World Series”, or US professional baseball championships begins tomorrow with game 1 of the best of seven series between the National League’s St Louis Cardinals and the American League’s Detroit Tigers starting at 7:30 PM Eastern Time. There is some great coverage of the games on the mobile web. If you can’t be near a radio or TV you can still follow the games play by play and pitch by pitch with the mobile web on your phone. ESPN … Continue reading →

WC’06

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I received an email yesterday from a gentleman named Eduardo Casais asking me to take a look his company’s mobile World Cup site. The company is called Areppim AG and appears to be a web design firm in Bern, Switzerland. I’m rather impressed by the site and wanted to get this post up before tomorrow’s Germany – Italy match. Areppim has come up with an unusual and interesting concept and an excellent mobile site from the standpoint of usability and … Continue reading →