About the Company

BuzzCal liberates the sports fan from the drudgery of schedule management. Time wasted on the mundane activity of choosing teams, finding their schedules, and aggregating them in one place can now be spent on things the sports fan prefers, like talking smack with his friends and opponents alike. In the age of TiVo, Netflix, and on demand viewing, only one source of entertainment motivates people to watch it in real time—sports. Technology makes it easy for sports fans to watch or listen to their team when it is actually playing, be it on the TV, PC, radio, or even the cellphone. But the problem for sports fans today is keeping track of all the schedules of his favorite teams. Just look at the number of professional and college sports teams, leagues, and games played in a season. How can one possibly keep track of them all?

On average, 30 professional or college games are played everyday in the United States!

A generation ago, life for the sports fan was easy. An American used to know that only the NFL played on Monday night, baseball pitchers paced the mound in the summer, and university alumni grew excited for college basketball in the spring. Now, on an average day, the sports fan might have to keep track of 30 games across the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA football, and NCAA men’s basketball at any time of the year! For the dedicated sports fan, he can get by as long as he proactively seeks out his favorite teams’ schedules. The fan can go to the individual team websites, get a team schedule on a magnet from the local insurance agent, or keep abreast of forthcoming games by reading the local newspaper or watching the local news. Sports portals like Yahoo Sports and ESPN.com don’t make it easy for the sports fan, either. Setting up three teams from three different leagues takes several minutes, and a deeper knowledge about teams beyond the name. In sum, all of these options require work on the part of the sports fan. Even if the sports fan regularly carries out this “hunt and gather” mode for schedules, the next problem is where to keep the schedules? For instance, do all the schedules on magnets go up on the refrigerator, website reprints get taped to the wall, and another set of schedules are handwritten into a daily planner? And if the sports fan wants to aggregate all the schedules into something like Microsoft Outlook, look forward to a lot of manual entry. Exports of sports schedules are few and far between, and even when they exist, updates do not occur automatically.

Enter BuzzCal!