Sports Illustrated is jumping into the iPad-magazine fray (where GQ magazine and Wired have made splashes; big and small). Time, Inc., the parent company for Sports Illustrated began offering an iPad version of the weekly sports publication.  PCWorld gave some details and history of the move into tablet news:

It’s no surprise that a mobile edition of SI was in the works. The publisher previewed a proof of concept video on YouTube late last year, showcasing the magazine on a generic tablet. The resulting product, released last Thursday amid the iPhone 4 frenzy, incorporates ideas from the concept video nicely (sans those creepy CGI hands).

The app provides scan-through as well as swipe-though navigation of the magazine’s issues, while a widget called “The Wheel” will allow users to send their favorite story or photo to Facebook or Twitter and suggest similar stories they might like to read. Weekly content includes “the best of the magazine and SI.com,” as well as an assortment of additional features.

The first week, which was available last Thursday along with the app, includes a video documentary, an interactive mock NBA draft, a panoramic photo of Pebble Beach’s “Cliffs of Doom” (with highlights on the golfers who played there and their hole strategies), and an SI Original piece entitled “The Worst Team Ever,” a piece by sportswriter Jimmy Breslin on the 1962 Mets.

Looks like Apple, who continues to innovate and domainate, is forcing the old school big boys to play their game. For more on this news, check out PC world.

The AppleBlog named ten of its favorite iPhone applications for sports fanatics  including baseball, NFL Live, Soccer Now, Races! Plus,  Pro Hockey Insider, iTeam, and Score… check out the full post at theAppleBlog.

It’s difficult to have a top ten list of all the sports, narrowing down each sport to one application, but AppleBlog does a good job. Which sports applications are your favorites?

Business Insider recently put out their top-10 sports applications for the Apple IPhone. Of course it really all depends on which sport you are really into, but hey, we all love our lists!  Check out their top ten below:

1. ESPN Scorecenter free, accessible, and popular
2. Sportacular Sophisticated and includes customized, real-time “push” notifications.
3. Yahoo! Fantasy Football Monitor and control your Yahoo! Fantasy Football team with this app.
4. Madden 2010 offers a miniaturized version of the popular football game.
5. DirecTV SuperFan DirecTV offers live football video
6. CBS Sports: College CBS is streaming some live college games — one football and basketball game per week
7. MLB At Bat The best live sports app for MLB.
8. ESPN Radio ESPN’s new radio app offers live streams from more than 15 ESPN Radio stations across the country
9. ESPN Zoom Deluxe A “photo hunt” game based on sports
10. NFL App for Sprint not IPhone but for Blackberries and Palm Pres, it includes live video streaming of the NFL Network, plus live radio streams of NFL games.

Definitely not enough basketball-focused apps for a basketball-crazed person like me, but I get it, it’s the beginning of football season. To read the entire article with links to itunes, click here.

Found this doing a quick search on Iphone basketball applications… you can play basketball as you would on your iphone, but on your computer.  Why would you want to do that?  I guess so you can text an application before you actually take up space and upload it onto your precious Iphone.

Check it out at  http://www.playscreen.com/iphone/basketball/index.htm

The Los Angeles Times Blog has reviewed the March Madness on Demand Iphone app, and how the application has set precedent for potential live sports apps in the future:

CBS and Mobitv put together a really interesting app that does everything you’d want from such a thing. Live scores, easy-to-maneuver brackets and, best of all, live streaming video (as long as you have a Wi-Fi connection). Everything works very smoothly — if not perfectly.

And as good as it is, it opens the door to more possibilities with sports and iPhone apps. For example, if CBS is allowed to stream every game of the tournament for the low price of $5 for the entire March Madness (including the upcoming Final Four and championships), then why wouldn’t MLB.com be able to provide a similar app for baseball fans? Isn’t it the same principle — letting sports fans enjoy their favorite teams via the screens on their phones?

…If CBS can give us all the NCAA March Madness games on our iPhones through this app for $5 — a service very similar to what they provide to cable and dish users for $70 — then why can’t the NFL and the MLB deliver their packages (which run about $200 and $100, respectfully) for a fraction of the price? Isn’t the idea to grow market share and help spread ads to our beloved mobile devices?

Read the full article/blog here.  To check out the March Madness College Basketball app, check it out at the Itunes App Store.

Just found this dude on Youtube and he’s given the whole idea of March Madness a whole new definition.

He’s posted a video of himself watching four NCAA basketball games simultaneously at home, on his LCD TV, his Mac, a PC Laptop and his Iphone.  Ahhhhh… technology.   Soon you’ll be getting live scores from your microwave… or getting kicked out of his basement. 

The guy is watching the following games and running up his electricity by… 

• Watching Siena vs. Ohio St. on his Mac
• Watching Gonzaga defeat Western Kentucky on his Sony LCD
• Watching UNC defeat LSU on his Iphone
• Watching Wisconsin vs. Florida State on his Laptop PC

Check out the video below:

You can watch the madness on your television through CBS, on your Mac or PC at http://mmod.ncaa.com, or you can watch it on your Iphone if you download the Iphone basketball app.  Or you can be insane like this guy and watch all of them at the same time…  hope there wasn’t a thunderstorm in the forecast….

In conjunction with CBS Sports, Apple announced that it would allow college basketball fans to download condensed versions of all 63 Division I men’s NCAA basketball games a day after they air on CBS.

Each game will be available on iTunes for $1.99, or $19.99 for a “season pass”  accesss to download all the basketball games.

Watch college basketball games LIVE
Speaking of Apple and March madness, you can also watch all the games LIVE by downloading the March Madness on Demand application from CBS Sports and MobiTV.

The app costs only $4.99 for all the games (that’s 8 cents a game), and also offers highligts, scoreboard, and interactive bracket.  You can download the app at the iTunes Store.

Download the March Madness app directly from Apple (or click on the image)

Today is the day.  Games are set to start in less than an hour.  Watch the NCAA Tournament online (Click here to watch it LIVE online at NCAA.com).  Starting Thursday at 12 p.m. EDT, you can watch every single game on your Mac or PC computer for free at  CBS’ March Madness On Demand page.

Or if you are in-transit, you can watch the games in their entirety on your iphone or on your ipod Touch.  Just download the CBS March Madness application (costs just $4.99) and get going immediately.  The app is available for download at the official ITunes store

(Itunes download).

The CBS Sports/March Madness App is #5 paid application on ITunes.  The application powered by MobiTV allows Iphone users to watch all the March Madness games from their phone (or Touch) with access to a wireless network.  The app costs $4.99, and is available for download at the ITunes store (download).

We ran across these exlusive screenshots of the March Madness IPhone App:

We’re still waiting on the games to start to get a better feel for the quality, but if the interface and bracket screens are any indication, this is going to be a winner.  You can download the app here.  Find more indepth information about the app check out http://www.collegebasketballiphone.com