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Zite adds NFL category to bring you personalized football news

by Mel Martin (Sep 8th, 2011)

You might have, ahem, noticed, it's football season. Users of the free personal news app Zite now can add their favorite teams and Zite will deliver personalized pigskin stories. Zite is my favorite iPad news discovery app, and this NFL category is going to be just what rabid football fans ...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers give each player an iPad as a playbook

by Steven Sande (Aug 25th, 2011)

When is a football playbook not a PlayBook? When it's an iPad! The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are now equipping all of the players on the team with iPads, and both players and management seem to love the idea. According to the St. Petersburg Times, the Tampa Bay players now just turn on their iPads to ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: iQuarterback 2 Pocket Edition

by Mike Schramm (Jun 17th, 2011)

iQuarterback 2 is an excellent little football throwing game from FuzzyCube Software that has you tossing a little pigskin around a football field through multiple game modes. The game recently came out on the iPad, but the iPhone version is brand new. It's just as fun on the small screen, with ...

TUAW's Daily iOS App: First Touch Soccer

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2011)

If you enjoy soccer or soccer video games and happen to own an iPhone, First Touch Soccer is a must-buy. I'm not a big fan of soccer, but this is an impressively premium title with great visuals, solid controls and lots of extras, including home team themed menus, multiple modes, social ...

EA Mobile drops the price on Madden NFL 11 for iPad to $6.99

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 29th, 2011)

EA Mobile's popular Madden NFL 11 for the iPad is now available for $6.99 for a limited time. Grab it while you can as this price drop is almost 50% off the regular price of $12.99. The app brings the gameplay of the Madden iPhone football series to big screen of the iPad. The iPad version ...

CBS Sports updates pro football iPad app for playoffs

by David Quilty (Jan 17th, 2011)

I may not be happy about what happened to my New England Patriots on Sunday, but that won't stop me from following the last four teams on their road to the Super Bowl this year. For those of you who may feel the same way, 148Apps is reporting that CBS Sports has updated their free CBS Sports Pro ...

TUAW's Daily App: Backbreaker 2: Vengeance

by Mike Schramm (Dec 9th, 2010)

Most football video games nowadays go all out on features -- you can play any position, just coach fantasy-style, or even design plays in some games. But NaturalMotion's Backbreaker series for iOS goes the other way. It's just good old tackling and running, boiled down into an arcade mode designed ...

My Mac Setup: Gameday Edition in the UK

by Richard Gaywood (Oct 10th, 2010)

My girlfriend Danielle recently emigrated from the US to live with me in Wales. Her move meant leaving behind family and friends, but most importantly she abandoned decent live coverage of her beloved Michigan Wolverines. Here in the UK, our only broadcast option for college football is ESPN ...

TUAW's Daily App: NFL 2011

by Mike Schramm (Aug 19th, 2010)

Madden is usually the word in football video games around this time of year, but just in case you don't want to spend that $8, Gameloft has a deal for you. Even before the season starts, it's dropped the price on NFL 2011 to just 99 cents. The Gameloft version doesn't quite have as much polish or ...

Madden 2011 out for iPad and iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2010)

This year has just flown by -- it's almost that time again, when the leaves start to change color, the kids head back to school, and footballs fill the air. That also means the new Madden is now out, and for the first time, EA has brought the game to the iPad. By all accounts, it's pretty good -- ...

Handmark and Goal.com team up for free FIFA World Cup 2010 app

by Steven Sande (Jun 9th, 2010)

With the FIFA World Cup 2010 commencing on June 11th, TUAW has been receiving a lot of info about iPhone apps for the event, including the indie effort Total Football 2010 which we'll be checking out soon. One of the most intriguing tips came from veteran mobile developer Handmark, which has ...

Sportacular updated for (fantasy) football

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2009)

I only follow a few sports teams, but for the teams I do follow, Sportacular (that's the iTunes link for the free version, and here's the paid version, sans ads) is definitely my app of choice. For nearly every professional sport you can think of, the app will track scores, plays, schedules, ...

DirecTV NFL Mobile: The most expensive free app in the world

by David Winograd (Sep 3rd, 2009)

DirecTV, which I love dearly and which supplies signal to eight screens in my house, has just announced the NFL Mobile app [iTunes link] which doesn't go live until September 13th (although you can download it now). Once working, the app will let you watch live streams of all NFL Sunday Ticket ...

Five iPhone apps for football junkies

by Lisa Hoover (Sep 8th, 2008)

With apologies to our friends across the pond who have their own take on what "football" really is, the first full day of a new season of American football got underway yesterday with a whole host of league games that stretched late into the night. The only thing better than watching a football game ...

Fixtures and more from iFooty

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 28th, 2008)

With 237 (and counting) almost universally glowing reviews, iFooty is one app that's scoring well on the UK iPhone App Store, riding high on the Top 25 Free apps list. What it does it pretty simple -- aggregating football league data and news articles from a variety of BBC sources -- but it does it ...