Sports news and score updates is a portion of the daily feed that every sports enthusiast look out for either in their morning paper or perhaps in the sports news channels. Sports, for such people, is more than a religion and is also followed with a passionate fervor. Some sports that have achieved a universal cult like status are rugby, football, basketball and baseball.

Baseball though originated in Europe, it was America that adopted it and this sport has now become one of the most popular sports in the country. With the foundation of the Major League Baseball, this sport became far more organized. The MLB is made up of 30 teams out of which 29 are based out of the USA and one team is based out of Canada. There are actually 162 games which are played each baseball season and all the sports news and scores are aired by Fox Sport and ESPN alike. Both these channels have already been covering the MLB series from a fairly reasonable length of time even though it is Fox Sports that broadcasts each of the games of the World Series exclusively.

Rugby or American football is a full contact team sport which is also seriously popular in the USA. American Football is played at a professional level as well as being very popular as a college sport. There are two very prominent football leagues that are seen in the United States called the United Football League and the National Football League. The professional footballers are typically a part of NFL and the UFL. The NFL American Football final championship game is called the Super Bowl and has a tremendous following. The Super Bowl sports news and scores and updates are aired by Fox Sports and ESPN.

ESPN airs basketball sports news and scores regularly pursuing the NBA season very closely. The NBA or the National Basketball Association much like the MLB has thirty teams and sees an overall total of 82 games being played by these teams. From these 82 games, 41 games are played in the respective teams home turf. Apart from ESPN, news and score updates in connection with game and developments within the teams is closely followed by Sporting News, a widely publicized sports magazine.

A few of the other sports news and score updates that are searched by sports fans come from some very unconventional sports such as extreme sports and fantasy sports. Extreme sports are sports which may have a very high degree of danger, physical strength, endurance test and dexterity associated with it. Unconventional sports for example sky diving, snowboarding, surfing, ice climbing etc are called extreme sports. Extreme sports news and scores and live events are specially aired by ESPN together with the X Games, the biggest and the most prestigious of all extreme sports events.

Fantasy sports is a recent development in the world of virtual sports where participants or players play regular sports such as baseball, basketball, football, cricket etc through the virtual medium following a chosen sports season. This class of sports has become so well received that major sports news providers like Fox Sports, ESPN and Yahoo sports have separate channels that provide all the information regarding fantasy sports news and scores to its followers.