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There was just a huge local high school football game.
Our high school which has been on a tear not only this
season but the fast few years (which is definitely a
change in trend) were going up against the local private
school powerhouse which consistently ranks well in all
high school sports and typically rolls over the local
high schools. This match up was genuinely up for grabs
so needless to say, they move the venue to the local
community college field and it was sold out. I wasn't
able to go to the game as we had planned to go out to
dinner with some friends but I still wanted to know how
it turned out as soon as possible. There's the rub.
Outside of getting an update from someone at the game,
how would I track this down. This is where the Zipper
comes into play for local sports news by bringing fast
breaking local sports news directly to your smart phone
in real time. I didn't have Zipper.
I
first went to the high school website where I found the
basic schedule "This School plays That School at 7pm at
this location". It was 11pm at night so the game far
over. The local public high school did not update their
website so that didn't help me much. I looked at the
local newspaper and even though the game was big for the
area (we don't have much going on here), they still
hadn't updated the info. The small local newspapers
probably have a time constraint as the their staff's
have been cut relentlessly over the last few years with
the internet encroaching on their advertising budgets.
I know it would be in tomorrow's newspaper print edition
but I didn't want to wait till then. In the world of
instant-everything online, why should I have to wait
till morning to find something out now about local
sports news. My point exactly. The Zipper local news
app was literally made for situations like this one.
Now let's rerun this frustrating situation above in
light of the new Zipper to see how I might have been
spared all that nonsense.
It
still 11pm and I just got back from my dinner. I want
to find out who won the local football game so I don't
sound too foolish when I see people tomorrow and there's
also a part of me that wants to see the underdog finally
give a little back to the local dominant team that
practically recruits based on athletics. Okay...not
practically. They do. No looking at government
websites (sarcastic translation for local high school
web) or waiting. I pull out the Zipper smart phone app
for local news and local gossip. Since the game is such
as a big deal, there's a good chance that related
threads will be right there on the main screen since
this is the primary spot for local news including local
sports scores. The local news stories are ranked by
freshness (how old), popularity (how active), and
correctness (how confirmed). Based on the first two,
the football game results will probably show up near the
top until people are done talking about it.
Worse case, I run a quick search for the game results
and a list of threads (there may be more than one) pops
up. One even gives a play by play highlight history of
the game which is pretty cool. I would never get that
from the local paper. More importantly, I could get
those updates as the occur in real time. Local sport
scores have finally come into the internet era with ease
of access via your smart phone. By the way, we lost
35-21 but the Zipper can only change so much of the
world.
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