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Yahoo Sports alternatives

Yahoo Sports users often seek alternatives due to intrusive ads, notification issues, and a lack of specific sports coverage. Alternatives like ESPN and theScore offer different strengths, from comprehensive streaming to quick, reliable scores.

Why users look for alternatives to Yahoo Sports

The alternatives

ESPN
4.6★ · 4,098,838 ratings · Free

ESPN offers a comprehensive sports experience with a clean, intuitive interface, reliable live score updates, timely breaking news, and personalized features for following favorite teams and leagues R55. It is known for its streaming quality, though some users report issues with streaming reliability and app crashes R51R55R59R60.

Better for: ESPN is better for users who want a broad, intuitive sports experience with reliable live scores and news, and who may be interested in streaming content, provided they don't encounter the reported streaming or crashing issues R55R59R60.

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Yahoo Fantasy Sports
4.8★ · 863,968 ratings · Free

Yahoo Fantasy Sports is a dedicated app for playing various fantasy sports with friends across multiple leagues . It allows users to manage their fantasy teams, though some find the format amateurish and navigation difficult, especially with recent updates .

Better for: This app is better for users whose primary interest is playing fantasy sports, especially if they are already integrated into the Yahoo fantasy ecosystem . Users should be aware of potential navigation and notification issues R65R68.

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theScore
4.8★ · 840,485 ratings · Free

theScore is highly regarded for following live sports, tracking favorite teams, and staying updated with major news, with users praising its quick access to scores, stats, and TV channels R80R86R88. It is frequently updated with new features and an improved user interface R88.

Better for: theScore is better for users who prioritize fast, reliable live scores and stats, especially for sports like MLB, and appreciate an app that is regularly updated R88R90. Users should be mindful of potential battery drain and intrusive ads R81.

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CBS Sports
4.7★ · 833,629 ratings · Free

CBS Sports allows users to watch games and get sports stories R93R94. However, recent updates have made the app look more like social media, with a focus on large thumbnails and videos, making it harder to find articles and requiring more scrolling R93.

Better for: CBS Sports might suit users who are interested in watching games directly through the app and don't mind a social media-like interface with more videos R94. However, users should be prepared for frequent requests to review the app and potentially weak coverage of minor or women's sports R95R96.

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NBC Sports
4.6★ · 438,485 ratings · Free

NBC Sports provides information and coverage for various sports, including NFL . However, users frequently report issues with streaming, such as black screens and constant pausing, and find the app's navigation difficult R109.

Better for: NBC Sports could be an option for users primarily interested in specific NBC-covered events like NFL, but they should be prepared for potential streaming glitches, frequent ad interruptions, and a challenging navigation experience . Coverage for events like the Tour de France is often limited to highlights R107R110.

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Stick with Yahoo Sports if

You should stick with Yahoo Sports if you primarily want simple, quick scores and appreciate the ability to highly control content to only see news from your favorite leagues, as some users find it the best for this specific purpose .

Evidence note: No alternative had too few reviews to judge.

Frequently asked

Why do users find Yahoo Sports annoying?
Users find Yahoo Sports annoying due to intrusive and inappropriate ads, including dating app ads with nude women, that play audio automatically and interrupt podcasts R1R7R40. Persistent notification issues, like unwanted live score banners and alerts that ignore settings, also contribute to user frustration R4R19R27R28.
Does Yahoo Sports cover all college sports?
No, Yahoo Sports does not cover all college sports; users frequently report a lack of coverage for college baseball, softball, and hockey, despite the app publishing scores and teams for many different soccer leagues R9R33R34R38.
Is ESPN better for streaming live games?
ESPN is often praised for its excellent streaming quality and comprehensive sports experience, making it a strong option for live game streaming R55. However, some users have reported issues with streaming stopping or the app crashing during live events like Wimbledon R51R54.
Which app is best for quick, reliable scores?
theScore is highly recommended for quick, reliable scores, with users consistently finding it to be one of the best apps for following live sports and getting fast information R80R86R88R90.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R1] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Yahoo sports: App sucks… can’t go in scores without seeing a dating app about nude women, I’m a female that doesn’t want to see that and neither does/will my husband…will delete app because it refuses to stop ads when we want them stopped!
  2. [R7] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Annoying ads: The ads are beyond annoying. There is nothing that makes sense with them and just get in the way. Please at least make them sports related at the minimum
  3. [R40] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Nice and simple app, but ads with audio!? Smh: How dare you interrupt my podcast with a terrible audio track for some bs brain-decaying game. DON’T EVER INTERRUPT MY PODCASTS!
  4. [R49] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Annoying gambling pop-up: It was great until they started with the annoying gambling pop-up almost every time you open the app. Removed the app and will never redownload.
  5. [R4] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Stop the score banners!: Deleting this app because I’m constantly getting live score updates on top banner of my Home Screen even when locked, for teams I don’t even follow. All notifications and haptics are turned off and they still show up.
  6. [R19] Yahoo Sports 2/5 · US Tired of it ignoring settings: Why does it change my notification settings update. It won’t even let me change them back without uninstalling and reinstalling it, it seems like EVERYONE single update
  7. [R27] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Widget on iPhone slowww to update: Can’t stop notifications and the widget on the iPhone is slow to update. Fair app at best
  8. [R28] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US One star: Alerts are slow , everything is bunched together can’t separate leagues you want.
  9. [R9] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Good, Not Great!: While I think the Yahoo sports app is one of the better sports apps available for the iPhone, especially if you use Yahoo as your fantasy home (it’s the best), it could be much better. I’d love to see y’all add College Softball, and the teams to the normal coverage as well as horse racing. I also wish there was more user freedom in how things are arranged for our viewing pleasure
  10. [R33] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US More College Sports: I counted 24 different soccer leagues that you publish scores & teams for, which is helpful if you like soccer, BUT you do not offer college baseball or hockey!! Please rein in all the soccer stuff, or at least add the college baseball & hockey!!
  11. [R34] Yahoo Sports 2/5 · US NCAA Baseball: Why is college baseball excluded from yahoo?
  12. [R38] Yahoo Sports 4/5 · US NCAA Baseball & Softball: Your app provides great scores & information on the sports you include. Your biggest gap is lack of coverage of NCAA baseball & softball. Is there any chance you’ll be adding these?
  13. [R8] Yahoo Sports 4/5 · US FIFA Table standings!: England & Ghana are currently at halftime, playing in their 2nd match. Yet once the 0-0 score is posted, the table standings take the result as final. Another example, once the first team of any match scores, the table standings treat this result as final and show a win for the team that scores first. Finally to write this review I had to erase the review I wrote last yea
  14. [R11] Yahoo Sports 4/5 · US great but sometimes freezes: I've been using it for years as it's great for tracking many sports. Only problem I have is that it freezes up on a regular basis when I come back to it. I have to close the app and reopen it.
  15. [R12] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US NBA Stats page: NBA stats page. Filtered to all teams displays top 20. But the list is incorrect. Banchero and Cunningham should be in top 20
  16. [R15] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Y-Sports: Installed and got a blank screen. Nothing else! I waited … nothing.Finally deleted app and wrote review.
  17. [R18] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Navigating App is Insane: Navigating this app is crazy - nothing easy to access.
  18. [R24] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Top tabs aren’t customizable: The leagues on top move around DAILY. Today is NCAAWB championship day and the tab isn’t even on top of the scores page. WHY?!? The first tab is NCAAB then NBA MLB NFL NHL. NFL is not even in season, why does it come before NHL? Why do I have to see 2738 tabs for soccer when I don’t follow it?
  19. [R26] Yahoo Sports 4/5 · US One missing feature: Love this app for sports and information. What keeps this from being 5 stars for me is the inability to sort the leagues from top to bottom by preference. I would like to find the scores for soccer leagues easier rather than prioritizing some American Leagues im not interested in.
  20. [R6] Yahoo Sports 3/5 · US Great app but too much betting focus: This has been my favorite sports app since before yahoo even owned it (I think it was called sportacular or something like that?) and it’s easily the best one on the App Store in terms of UI. But over time they have added more and more focus on sports betting which is a real shame. They should at the very least provide the option to remove the betting ads from
  21. [R16] Yahoo Sports 1/5 · US Too Far Left: You can tell who reads and writes these articles. If you’re here for sports, move on, clearly politics are the only thing on peoples minds nowadays. Nasty people on here.
  22. [R22] Yahoo Sports 2/5 · US This is a NBA/WNBA app: This app is great if you are into the NBA and cultural issues everyone else is sooo tired of. But if you just want other sports search elsewhere. I get that the NBA finals are going on now as well as the FIFA, but the Stanley Cup Finals (which air last night) didn’t get even a mention in the 13 front page articles. Yep WNBA and not in season NFL takes priority over NHL Fina
  23. [R51] ESPN 1/5 · US Worst App: I bought the subscription for a month to see Wimbledon. The streaming stopped working so many times. I reset everything and I still have the same problem. I wish I could rated 0 star. Let me mention that the other apps on my Samsung TV work fine.
  24. [R55] ESPN 5/5 · US The greatness of ESPN: Dear ESPN, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The ESPN app delivers an outstanding sports experience with a clean, intuitive interface and exceptionally reliable coverage. Live scores update seamlessly, breaking news is timely and comprehensive, and the personalized features make it effortless to follow my favorite teams and leagues. The streaming quality is consistently excellent, and the app strikes
  25. [R59] ESPN 3/5 · US App Crashing: I like the app, and it’s easy to use. The issue with it though is that it will randomly crash while I’m reading an article. Happens too often and I don’t experience this with my other apps. If it weren’t for this I’d give it 5 stars.
  26. [R60] ESPN 1/5 · US Broken app: Every time I try and read article, or anything else, I get about five sentences in and the app tries to break itself. It will either send me to the home page, switch to some random article, or gray screen. The app has been completely unusable for the last month. I’ve had the app for multiple years and just uninstalled it.
  27. [R65] Yahoo Fantasy Sports 2/5 · US Soccer notifications out of nowhere!: Not sure why but have been getting nonstop notificstions for world cup.
  28. [R66] Yahoo Fantasy Sports 4/5 · US Great app: I’m enjoying the app one minor flaw, the green checkmark that you did an update on notifying the players availabilities I like the bright one before. The new dark one is hard to recognize.
  29. [R67] Yahoo Fantasy Sports 3/5 · US It fixed itself: Mysteriously the information came back after a couple hours . Not the first time that this has happened .b
  30. [R68] Yahoo Fantasy Sports 1/5 · US Stop with the notifications: I only want notifications for my league but I’m spammed 50 times a day. I might quit and find another way to play because this app is so annoying.
  31. [R79] theScore 1/5 · US Awful Articles: Bad , too many articles on female assaulter Conor McGregor . They delete comments if you criticize female assaulters. Shame and lame. I’d give zero stars if I could.
  32. [R80] theScore 5/5 · US The Best: i have used ScoreMobile for a decade or so; no need to quit anytime soon.
  33. [R81] theScore 3/5 · US Was good, too many features now: Good app overall, a bit slow, feels like the jammed in as many features as possible which makes it more clunky. It also drains battery tremendously fast now after some recent updates so will be looking for a different app. Literally drained 5% of my battery in 6 minutes the other day, so absurd. I just need the score, I don’t need chat, live updates, fancy play-by-
  34. [R82] theScore 2/5 · US Odd changes made: With the recent revamped look, comment notifications are missing and there’s no way to find them
  35. [R93] CBS Sports 1/5 · US Bad Update: The new update makes the app look like social media, not an app that actually has articles with sports stories along with the scores
  36. [R94] CBS Sports 5/5 · US Good: It’s fun to watch games on here umm yeah it’s good but developers pls respond to me I just think it’s cool lol
  37. [R95] CBS Sports 3/5 · US Stop: Stop asking me to review your app.
  38. [R96] CBS Sports 1/5 · US App is bad: Stop asking me to rate
  39. [R107] NBC Sports 1/5 · US What happened to the full Tour de France: What happened to the full Tour broadcast? I looked forward to watching the full broadcast and taking a bit out of each day to relax and riding along. Highlights are no substitute
  40. [R108] NBC Sports 5/5 · US Give credit where credit due, great teamwork: Women’s Basketball, great game skills ladies
  41. [R109] NBC Sports 3/5 · US WNBA: It says that the WNBA game is streaming on the app but the game is nowhere to be found. I paid for WNBA league pass and I am unable to watch
  42. [R110] NBC Sports 2/5 · US No complete tour coverage: A mediocre app. Covers only the most inane sports like soccer or basketball. To watch something meaningful, like the Tour de France, it’s nearly nonexistent. You can only get segments of it. And then it’s very difficult to find those as you have to hunt all over the app. I do not recommend this app.
  43. [R54] ESPN 1/5 · US Paid for mlb doesn’t work: Will NEVER buy again
  44. [R86] theScore 5/5 · US Amazing: Super helpful when trying to get good info fast
  45. [R88] theScore 5/5 · US Best app for following live sports: I’ve found this to be the best app for following live sports, tracking your favorite teams, and keeping up to date with major news of the day. I love that the developers are constantly updating it with new features and improved user interface. Whether following a game play by play or customizing your home teams page to your preferred layout, this is #1 in my boo
  46. [R90] theScore 5/5 · US So close to being the single best live score app for MLB: I use TheScore mainly for MLB baseball. I’ve tried basically ever other viable app (Apple sports, yahoo sports, cbs sports, sports alerts, real, sofascore, flashscore) for live scores, and the one that seemed to work the best out of all of them was TheScore. I really have almost no gripes with this app at all. The only thing that I would lo

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