14 DAY TRIAL // I know some people willing to give an arm and a leg for their favorite team, people who will have a nervous breakdown, if the respective team loses, and go have a "talk" with those who might have said something bad about the team. Needless to say how important an accurate coverage of the games and scores is for them.
The Live Sports Map, created by Ryan McKillen, presents sports scores and news for sports throughout the world (but mostly from the United States and Canada). It's pretty well structured, with the scores being plotted on the home team's stadium, or arena, and a link to zoom in on the Google Maps satellite view, while the news are plotted on the city where the game takes place, all of these being color coded (with the option to disable it if you so desire).
There's a wide variety of sports that show up on the mashup: Major League Baseball, NASCAR, NBA Basketball, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, NCAA Hockey, NFL Football, NHL Hockey, Olympics (when they start), Tennis and World Soccer. I wonder whether the South American countries will block the access to it when the World Cup will begin, because, as passionate as they are, I foresee a huge increase in LCD buying. That's because the first thing you hit is what you see, namely the screen in front of you, in case of a bad result.
I myself can't wait to start using it, because it will show a page less cluttered than the sports sites that I usually surf and that's a good thing, I'll have you know. Nothing but results, all day. Something like a betting site, but without the pull to play and the most likely loss (come on, who actually stops when he sees that he's lost the first bet? Nobody, they all want to win it back with the second and so on).