No ESPN text alerts for Sprint.

[VW Maverick]

Now that Sprint is raising their prices for companies to use their text service, ESPN has cut off free text alerts for us.

Does anyone know another service or an app that gives text alerts for sports news/teams? I prefer text alerts as opposed to opening an app, but that is just me.

Thanks.

Mav.

 

[simon.ponder]

Sports Tap

Sports Tap might be what you are looking for.

I haven't used it, but it states to deliver alert notifications of favorite teams.

 

[Sparty73]

I haven't looked at Sports Tap, but any app that offers alerts will assuredly be on the "must have" list of apps for Sprint sports fans.

I'm hoping ESPN gets to providing push notifications for ScoreCenter, especially considering the iOS version of that app has 'em.

 

[GBR_Disco]

Hopefully I can find a way to have it come through my gtalk account. If not what will I do on saturdays and sundays durring football season guess I'll actually have to watch all those games.

 

[jimt1029]

Yahoo has alerts that you can customize. I've never used them though.
Yahoo! Alerts - Create an Alert

 

[VW Maverick]

Both good suggestions.

I liked ESPN as it gave news, trades, rumors, firings, hirings, etc along with scores in their texts.

Thanks.

Mav.

 

[trivia3]

Once again, leave it to sprint to mess up a good thing.

 

[shoeless1542]

I use Yahoo Live Scores. It has been reliable at giving me game starts and scores. The widget was a battery killer though.

 

[jimt1029]

Google Scoreboard Widget is another app to get basic updates. Pretty configurable (teams, frequency of notifications, how often to updated). Doesn't seem too bad on my battery either.

 

[RawisTheGameHhH]

4INFO joins in; I just received a message from them saying "due to fees" they will stop sending to sprint

 

[KSmithInNY]

weather.com has also said they will no longer text Sprint customers.

http://www.androidcentral.com/weathercom-joins-espn-isnt-texting-sprint

 

[sfhub]

The only way to get it changed is to call Sprint and whomever you can to put pressure on Sprint. Even then it might not make a difference, but certainly if people don't express their displeasure to Sprint, they won't make any changes.

They recently gave in on the Gold/Silver Premiere upgrades that they took away from people on 4/1/11.

 

[Nagiom]

How is Sprint going to implement this? Any chance of my Alltel/Verizon number working when I port it in at the end of May?

 

[VW Maverick]

Does anyone know of or has (successfully) tried one of the free texting apps that give you your own phone number to see if you can continue to get text alerts from ESPN?

I see apps like "textPlus Free" "Textfree" and "HeyWire" that offer this.
They give you a seperate phone number to use for texting.

If one works, this would be a nice little workaround to still be able to get info from ESPN.

Anyone? Anyone?

Thanks.

Mav.