Ask HN: How do you consume sports?

  • I used to (mid-2000s to 2020, basically) live on message boards and listen to sports radio every day; I basically lived and breathed college football. Nowadays it's pretty much just a curated list of sports writers I like on a sports-only twitter account followed by watching most of my teams' games + a handful of interesting games going on that day using YouTube TV. There's something about the pervasive, constant nature of content these days that seems to have taken a lot of the fun out of it for me.

  • Here’s my current flow:

    1. ESPN app - mostly for the headlines across sports

    2. Tigernet - clemson specific / mostly football. Like the message boards.

    3. Instagram - great place to get lots of good news

    4. Maybe a google search - “when is x game?”

    5. YouTube for game recap / highlights / long form.

    6. Occasionally 247.

    7. FotMob for soccer

  • I have a very cheap TV package that includes something like a dozen, maybe two dozen sports channels. That's where I mostly watch soccer, but very rarely these days. I watch no other sport, and I pay for all of those channels because they come together in a bundle

    I occasionally go on r/soccer purely for goal highlights

    I used to use sofascore to keep track of games, but I don't anymore since I rarely sit down to watch matches. When I do want to find out when a particular match is, I will search on google

    I do play premier league fantasy with a few buddies. We have our own league

    Also, I don't think hn is the place to do research about people and their sports-watching habits, since most people here won't watch any sports regularly. A better place would be to go to some communities related to a certain sport and interact with the people there to find out how they do things; but also, if you're not into sports yourself and know a particular sport in and out and the culture associated with it, it's probably not the best idea to do a startup about this

  • Started playing fantasy football last year. Vastly improved my enjoyment of football, find myself following players and teams I wouldn’t care about before. I use my fantasy app for scores, news, etc.

    I watch RedZone, and created a multireddit for nfl, teams, fantasy, etc. for the rest + YouTube for highlights

  • Whenever there's a big game of some kind (stanley cup, world cup), I hear about the results after the fact on reddit

  • Curious why attending in person or otherwise watching the game is not among the considerations.

  • F1TV and YouTube Live (esports).

    YouTube for recap highlight.

    Some random sites for soccer.

    I mostly discuss with my partner.

  • Mostly F1tv app, and frankly ... various random streaming sites for motogp, soccer, cricket. Only really follow racing through the season other sports I'm just tuning in for semis/quarter/finals

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