Tuesday, December 30, 2008
ESPN Mobile Forgets My Favorite Teams
I'm a sports junkie, so when if I'm too busy to watch the game, I want a quick and easy way to check the latest scores involving my favorite teams.
Naturally, when I discovered the favorite teams feature on ESPN mobile, I thought it was a great concept: Fans can customize an entire page to track the scores of all their college and pro teams. The entire process SHOULD only take three steps
- Sign in to your espn.com account. (I was already a registered user).
- Tap the Favorite Teams tab.
- Browse and add your favorite teams.
ESPN sorts the teams by the sport and division. For example: I tapped NCAA Football-ACC- and FSU Seminoles.
Other teams in my group included the Orlando Magic, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Duke Blue Devils and my alma mater's football team- the Samford Bulldogs.
After I saved my favorites, I figured it would come in handy when FSU played Wisconsin in the Champs Sports Bowl last Saturday.
I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. A few days later, when I tapped favorite teams, NONE of the teams were listed.
Initially, I thought itwas just a one-time glitch. Nope. Even after I went through the entire process and saved my teams a SECOND time, the teams still didn't appear.
Afer a third attempt,Samford and Duke were the only teams it recalled, but it recalled Duke football- not basketball. Honestly, does anybody really want to track Duke football? I bet the head coach avoids any reminders of their most recent game.
For a company that claims to be the worldwide leader in sports, ESPN has a long way to go before its the worldwide leader in sports apps.
By Matt O'Hern at 02:19 PM | Comments (0)
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