ESPN teams with Kid President to grab digital March Madness fans (video)

Rather than be bummed out that CBS has exclusive rights to stream all the March Madness college basketball games this year, ESPN has enlisted the help of YouTube star Robbie Novak, aka Kid President.

Ooyala’s new Twitter Card support turns your Twitter feed into ESPN SportsCenter

Sports fans will be pleased to learn that their Twitter feeds are now more useful for catching up on game highlights and replay video clips.

Slew of new Windows 8 Apps on the way: Dropbox, ESPN, PayPal, NASA & more

With Windows 8 now available for public consumption, Microsoft is startup to plug all the various apps that are either already available or coming for the new operating system.

Latest Olympics tech update: Aussies choking, French stumbling, but the USA is kicking ass and taking names

If you’re reading from down under, relax. Ditto to those swathed in red, white, and blue. No Olympic gold medals have been handed out yet. At least, not for long jump, shotput, or table tennis.

But when it comes to …

NCAA Football 13 is a fun experience that’s still too raw to turn pro (review)

While EA Sports has continued its quantity-over-quality approach with NCAA Football 13, the title still provides a solid college football experience.

ESPN hopes to own mobile, starting with a new college football app

ESPN already considers mobile its fourth largest network (after the ESPN and ESPN2 TV networks and ESPN.com), but this isn’t stopping the company from focusing even further on mobile devices.

The company will soon debut new college football mobile apps, …

Learn the ins and outs of running your app biz at MobileBeat 2012

There’s more to running an app business than just building a cool app. Join us at MobileBeat 2012, where some of the minds behind popular apps like ESPN Mobile, Z2Live, and CBS Interactive discuss what it takes to create a …

Comcast customers finally score access to ESPN’s live streaming service

Comcast is finally letting Xfinity TV subscribers get access to ESPN’s live streaming sports service, WatchESPN.

The cable and Internet service giant announced today that its customers can now log into the WatchESPN iOS app using their Xfinity ID to …

ESPN’s new developer center strikes out with programmers

ESPN launched its Developer Center today, declaring that it was making a wide array of editorial content, scores and sports data accessible to third party developers. But the early reviews from the coding community are negative, calling out the high …

Slacker Radio starts streaming live sports games

Hey, sports fans: Can’t catch the big game on the boob tube? No problem. Now you can turn to Slacker Radio for a live audio broadcast.

The music-streaming company has expanded its relationship with ESPN to include live streaming of …

NumberFire grabs $650K to heat up sports stats

Sports analytics startup NumberFire has raised $650,000 in a seed round that will help it expand its fast-moving (and popular) venture, the company revealed today.

New York-based NumberFire focuses on sports analytics and can even help you win your fantasy …

Slacker Radio and ESPN team up for personalized sports stations and updates

Slacker Radio on Tuesday announced it has teamed up with ESPN Audio to create user-customized sports stations, just in time to appreciate the beginning of the NFL football season and the start of post-season MLB baseball.

Streaming music services have …