Number of Smartphone Owners Using Phones to Look Up Sports Scores
About four-in-ten smartphone owners say they used their phones recently to look up a sports score.
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About four-in-ten smartphone owners say they used their phones recently to look up a sports score.
The most popular category of apps downloaded by cell phone and tablet users are ones that provide regular updates on news, weather, sports or stocks. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of app downloaders have used an app that serves one or more of these functions.
Nearly half (47%) of American adults get at least some local news and information via their smartphones or tablet computers.
Just roughly a quarter of Americans said they were excited about the 2010 World Cup in a survey administered prior to the start of the tournament.
Nearly six-in-ten Americans are especially looking forward to the Super Bowl this year.
As American families gather for the Thanksgiving Holiday, many among them will be distracted by America’s favorite sport, football. A plurality of Americans (34%) rate football as their favorite sport to watch.
That’s the number of public schools experimenting with single-sex education — up from only 5 schools in the last decade.
That’s the number of U.S. adults who play fantasy sports — a game in which contestants pick real professional athletes to be on their virtual teams, then compete against other virtual teams based on statistics arising from the real-world performances of the players they have chosen.
That’s the small percentage of adult Americans who said they were following the World Cup soccer championship being held in Germany very closely even before the U.S. was eliminated from the competition. Only 4% of Americans rate soccer as their favorite sport to watch.
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