inluminent

Today’s been a good day for me (so far) with respect to college football. My boys (Texas A&M) beat Colorado… who’d have thought they’d have a 6 game winning spree this season after last year?

So, then I wanted to listen to the t.u./Texas Tech game after the wife and I walked around the block, so I turned to the internet. The game isn’t being televised (why not? I have no idea) and I don’t have a AM or FM receiver in the house, so the internet was the only option.

I found the game being broadcast on the internet for free at AM 1300 The Zone (I could have paid for access to the game through CollegeSports.com, but that seemed stupid). If the stream URL doesn’t change, this is what I’m listening to now, and here’s the direct Windows Media stream URL (which works better on a Mac than the stupid HTML player they have available).

I also found CollegeSports.com’s cool “Gametracker” which is a flash app that shows the game and the plays, and shows a quick animation of each play as it happens… super cool! (To find the gametracker for the game you want to see, goto the “today’s games” page and click to see the gametracker you’re interested in watching. I’m watching this one right now.)

The radio station is doing a great job of covering the game, but that’s because they’re just repurposing a primary content distribution system for another distribution method. The CollegeSports Gametracker seems to have sleepy little hamsters behind it… they seem to miss a bunch of plays that the radio guys get, and then add them all in to beat the radio guys to one big play, then go back to sleep for a little while…

Oh well. It’s nice to know there are a couple of good sources for listening to Texas Football games on the internet because TexasSports.com (UT’s official sports website) sucks as far as offering live content goes.