How to Get Updated, Real-Time Sports Stats on a Website

Introduction

Adding real time sports scores and news are a great value for your website. This article will assist you in adding relevant information from the ESPN Web Site. ESPN Widgets are portable applications that you can place almost anywhere! You can put them on your blog, your iGoogle home page, your Facebook profile, and many of the other most popular sites on the internet. These ESPN Widgets are updated frequently, so you can keep up-to-date with breaking stories and the latest scores and stats.

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Make sure you have a backup copy of the web page you are editing before you complete the steps in this article. This way you can restore the original copy if something goes wrong.
In addition to adding the widget to your website, you can easily add widgets to your Facebook, MySpace, Google pages, etc. by clicking on the appropriate button under the "Choose a Service" section of the widget.
This article assumes that you know how to work with HTML code and that you understand the basics of how to save web page files to your web server.

Step1

Go to the ESPN Widget Center at http://widgetcenter.espn.go.com/widgets/tags/ESPN and browse until you find the widgets you are looking for.

Step2

Once you find the widget, click on the "Add Now" button. On the right hand side of the box that opens up click "<> embed".

Step3

Click the "Copy" button to copy the code to your clipboard.

Step4

Paste the code into the web page where you want the widget to display.

Step5

Save the web page to your web server and the widget should display. You may have to play with the positioning to get it to look properly.

That's it, have fun and enjoy.