Netflix for international live sports is the next big thing. It's extremely hard to get around the licensing though.
$120 a year theoretically gets you streaming for the regular season.
Unless you're considered in-market for the team you want to watch, in which case, the games are blacked out for you since they're available on regional sports channels.
So say you live out-of-market from the team you want to watch. Great! Now you can stream all the games live... unless it happens to be broadcast on national TV, in which case you get blacked out.
It's literally impossible to give the league money and watch all the games you want to see without also having cable and it's all because of the tangled mess of agreements with regional cable channels.
I watch all of the baseball cardinals games at work. I'm often up to 3 weeks behind. This is easier as I'm out of market. But it's not that hard. I used to unfollow people on twitter who thought tweeting scores was somthing I'd care about. And I stopped using google news because it thinks who died on Game of Thrones or who won a game as news. It's even worse because it sees you looking at articles about them and zeroes in the news for you.
Other than that the only issue is catching back up on baseball. There are so. many. games.
RedZone (simulcast) for the batch of early games on Sunday which is roughly 19h-22h over here. Then watch the remaining Sunday games, including SNF on Monday in their cut down all snaps only version (about 45 minutes each compared to the normal 3.5h) and the MNF game on Tuesday (TNF on Friday or Saturday usually). If need be that can be shifted back a day (Sunday Redzone on Monday etc.)
All games archived and reviewable, All22 perspective is also nice to do some analyzing every now and then. The bundle includes Playoffs and the SB and some other stuff. I usually also watch Hard Knocks before the season for example.
And, their streaming technology is pretty standard (granted, woven through an odd maze of servers) and stable. Because of that, I and a few others were able to write an addon that lets subscribers access it from within Kodi. The lack of interface lock-in is nice.
With a few caveats, GamePass has done it the right way.
It's ironic that here in Germany I get better access to football content than I ever did in the US.
---Alex
The contract structure is totally unsuited to the internet-using public. Sooner or later the situation will change due to cord cutters. When it does happen, my bet is that the leagues will have to accept an overall decrease in available revenue. Player salaries will descend. The revenue of these enterprises probably peaked a couple of years ago. And like with newspapers, the product will need to change.
An app that I can find someone who has their cellphone pointing at their screen LIVE with a game on... and I pay that person pennies to watch it.
AFAIK there is some sort of a loophole that re-brodcasting even live show by recording it off of your screen (showing TV frame etc) is not illegal.
Am I wrong?
And yes they are illegal - they are often taken down
Similarly, the broadcasts of sporting events have a disclaimer saying you can't rebroadcast or retransmit it in any way, but I have no idea if that is legally binding.