With the madness of March upon us, Major League Baseball approaching, and the NBA playoffs on the way, here are the best apps (available on both iOS and Android) for die-hard fans who want to keep up with the action.

Team Stream from Bleacher Report (Free)

Possibly the best sports app on the market is Team Stream from Bleacher Report. This app is easy to use and extremely user friendly. When you first open the app, you choose your favorite teams and the streams you want to follow. Based on the streams you choose, everything that is important to you will appear on your home screen.

Bleacher Report is also great for tracking games as they happen. Bleacher Report uses the best way for you to view score updates and big moments in whatever game you are following.

NCAA March Madness Live (Free)

With March Madness beginning this week, the best way to follow the action is through NCAA March Madness Live. March Madness Live allows you to stream and follow live games on your iPad and phone as they happen.

March Madness Live allows you to plug in your own bracket and track your journey to winning all your bets and pools with your friends. The app has made many updates for this year’s tournament and it is now easier than ever to follow the madness.

ESPN (Free)

The official app of the Worldwide Leader in Sports is a great one for all sports fans. The ESPN app offers up to the minute score updates with highlights of all the action.

The app will send you alerts of the biggest news that revolves around your team and your favorite players. ESPN also offers “Watch ESPN” and “ESPN Radio” which allow you to watch and listen to all the live games on any ESPN channel.

MLB.com At-Bat ($2.99 monthly, $19.99 yearly)

For avid fans of Major League Baseball that are willing to pay a little bit of money, MLB.com At-Bat is the best app on the market for gamecasting and following every game. MLB.com At-Bat offers pitch by pitch updates, statistics, and the biggest moments in each game.

The app offers 20-30 highlights from the biggest moments from every game, every day, and allows you to watch every run get scored and all home runs get hit. Also, the app offers radio broadcasts of every game and one live game every day that you can stream on any device. Despite the price, this app is worth it for all fans of the MLB that want to follow all the action.

Twitter (Free)

Although Twitter is not just a sports app, it is possibly the fastest way to get up-to-the-second updates on all the news in the sports world. When viewing Bleacher Report and the ESPN apps you can see that they get most of their information and breaking news from Twitter.

By following team pages, reporters, writers, and anyone affiliated with your favorite teams, you are almost guaranteed to receive all the news faster than you would on any other app. The world almost revolves through Twitter these days so why not use it to get all the breaking news in the sports world?

Some good accounts to follow for the fastest news are:

Adam Schefter (@AdamShefter) – NFL insider

Tim Kurkjian (@Kurkjian_ESPN) – ESPN Reporter/Analyst

John Clayton (@ClaytonESPN) – ESPN Reporter/Analys

MLB (@MLB) – Official Account of Major League Baseball

MLBRosterMoves (@MLBRosterMoves) – Every roster move in the MLB

NBA (@NBA) – Official Account of the National Basketball Association

NFL (@NFL) – Official Account of the National Football League

Team accounts are also great to follow. Just search your team’s name and look for the little blue check mark next to the name to know that the account is the official one. Most team’s also have their own reporters and beat writers that will tweet news about the team.

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