Big 12 basketball schedule tough on remote control

Another way to watch sports

It’s hardly the same viewing experience you’d get with a big screen TV, but ESPN360.com is serving sports fans by providing live coverage of more than 3,500 events a year on their computer.

That number includes a variety of Big 12 sports events, including 20 football games, 154 men’s basketball games and 13 women’s basketball games this school year.

Since relaunching in 2007, the network’s total usage by hours has increased 200 percent said Damon Phillips, network vice president.

Those viewers include fans who are watching out-of-market events not available on TV and those who are at work without access to a TV set.

"ESPN360 is a TV network that happens to deliver through a computer,” Phillips said. "It’s important for us to always deliver TV quality video and TV quality audio.”

The broadband network is available in 25 million homes, a 40 percent growth from 2007. In Oklahoma, the service is available to subscribers of AT&T and Pioneer and computers connected to a college campus or military base.

ESPN360 has the ability to deliver up to 12 simultaneous live events.