ESPN ScoreCenter. Keep Up with Scores, News, Videos & More from Favourite Sports Teams
by Paul Wilks
Oct 24, 2011 3:48 PM –
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ESPN ScoreCenter is a cool and smooth sports app which provides news feeds, scores, tables, fixtures and video clips. Choose from a range of the most popular world sports: American Football, Ice Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Rugby and Cricket. The app also lets you follow your favourite teams so finding information on them is easy. Nicely packaged, responsive with great UI and stacks of easy-to-reach information, ESPN ScoreCenter should be of interest to most sports fans.
Price: Free
Tested on: HTC Desire HD
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- The ability to follow your unique team (or teams)!
- Lots of up-to-date news and information!
- Plenty of world sports to choose from!
- Great UI!
- Syncs with settings you might have on myESPN!
Cons
- Limited to only the top leagues
- Only team games. So, for example, no Tennis.
Features:
ESPN ScoreCenter is a great app for sports fans. Whether you like Baseball, American football or Ice Hockey, or perhaps prefer Rugby and Cricket, this app is especially for you.
I guess what’s great about the application is that it pretty much covers all the top team games. There are a few apps out there that include 2 or 3, and lots which specialize in a particular sport, but ESPN ScoreCenter would appear to be far more comprehensive. It does lack coverage of the more individualistic sports such as Athletics and Tennis, which is a shame, but the big sports are all included. I personally found it good to see the app include more European sports too, such as Football, Rugby and Cricket.
It is presented as a series of scrollable panels: one that shows your teams’ news and latest scores, others that show league news- so, say you follow the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, you can get the latest scores, news and standings of the MLB, and so on. There is also a final screen which advertises ESPN’s other apps- ESPN ScoreCenter is a free app, so you can’t blame them for advertising like this, at least it’s relevant to sports fans! These screens are simple to scroll through and configure as and when you need to. News items can be read by tapping on them, but full recaps of most games link to the ESPN website for more analysis.
As mentioned, the app lets you follow the teams you support and places all their latest info in one screen. So (and I’m picking teams here at random) say you follow Liverpool (Football), Boston Redsox (Baseball), Boston Celtics (Basketball) and the Chicago Bears (American Football)- the latest scores and news from each of these teams all appear in one handy screen. Incredibly simple and easy to follow.
If you really are into ESPN coverage, and perhaps have registered with the ESPN website, you might be pleased to know the app syncs with your account here. Therefore, the teams and coverage you subscribe to on their website is channelled directly through to your Android. Pretty neat. 
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ESPN ScoreCentre – In-depth game information (1)
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ESPN ScoreCentre – In-depth game information (2)
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ESPN ScoreCentre – In-depth game information (3)
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ESPN ScoreCentre – In-depth scores
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ESPN ScoreCentre – In-score view, top performers
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ESPN ScoreCentre – myTeams, score and upcoming fixture.
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ESPN ScoreCentre – Sport listings
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ESPN ScoreCentre – myTeams, news
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ESPN ScoreCentre – News viewer
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ESPN ScoreCentre – Player profiles
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ESPN ScoreCentre – League tables
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ESPN ScoreCentre – Good choice of leagues in the most popular sports
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ESPN ScoreCentre – Contextual league news
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ESPN ScoreCentre – Lots of top teams to select from
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ESPN ScoreCentre – myTeams settings
Usefulness:
For fans of top level sports, this is a great application. It’s useful for keeping up to date with scores, fixtures, news and videos for your favourite teams. It’s simple to use and easy to configure. If you have an account with the ESPN website you can sync information between the web and the app- it couldn’t be easier to stay in touch with your favourite sports.
Ease of Use:
Configuring the app only takes a few minutes as you add the teams you want to follow. The menus are simple to navigate and very responsive, I encountered no freezing or force closures. Once set up the app updates regularly and is a breeze to use.
Frequently Used:
I imagine you might use this more at the weekends- when most games are played, but you can use it throughout the week to monitor transfer news, and breaking events in the sports you are interested in. Like any good news app, it updates regularly and is usually accurate and well informed.
Interface:
The interface isn’t the most polished we sometimes see on Android news apps, but the app subsequently caters for all kinds of devices. Therefore it ‘should’ work on pretty much all Androids. The menus and layouts are clear and precise. The app is simple to navigate and understand.