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Welcome to the RSS Sports Help Page

This page is an educational resource intended to provide assistance with the implementation of RSS Sports. We hope that you can benefit from its presence and that we may benefit from yours. If you do not happen to find all of your answers here please feel free to send us a note on the contact page.

What are RSS feeds?

Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically through a web portal, news reader, or even email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into "widgets," "gadgets," mobile devices, and other smaller technologies that display blogs, podcasts, and major headlines just about anywhere.

Where are the feeds?

You may recognize the universal feed icon from your favorite websites, blogs, and podcasts. These icons represent content in any format, such as text, audio or video, to which you can subscribe and read, watch or listen using a feed reader.

Why is this a good thing?

Online publishing has made it extremely easy to not only publish regular updates to web-based content, but also keep track of a large number of your favorite scores and stats, without having to remember to check each site manually or clutter your email inbox.

Who Publishes feeds?

Most of the biggest sports sites offer content feeds including ESPN, TSN, Sportsnet and many more. Other sites such as Yahoo and Fox Sports also have their own RSS feeds pertaining to different sports.

How do I read feeds?

If you want to browse and subscribe to feeds, there are many choices. Today, there are more than 2,000 different feed reading applications, also known as "news aggregators" (for text, mostly) or "podcatchers" (for podcasts). There are even readers that work exclusively on mobile devices.