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BadMouth:
I researched this a while back, but couldn't find a way to do it without paying $ub$cription fees for the info.

ESPN.com has a sports ticker app (bottomline), but it's a tiny bar at the bottom of your screen.
Ideally, I'd like to make my jukebox display college football scores while watching games on the tv behind the bar.
It would have to be big enough to see from around 8 feet away.  
It would have to update the scores automatically and require nothing of me, beyond starting it up.

Anyone aware of a program to do this?
I found posts where people talked about building such a program that gets the info from an RSS feed, but I never found where it had actually been done.

NiN^_^NiN:
Would this help?
http://espn.go.com/bottomline/

Seems they have their own program for it and it has an option for float so id assume you can move it to a monitor somewhere and possible use a magnifying program to make it display bigger kinda like the built in one in xp?

hyiu:
years ago, we wrote something similar... basically a stock ticker bar...

we wrote a very simple html, which fetches data from like yahoo finance, parse the data, and just stream it on to another webpage we were working on...

this is just for a demo when we were putting the real deal together...

if you can code, you probably can write something up and fetches espn scores page every minute, then just parsed the data, and scroll it on to another window / page... whatever...

Donkbaca:
How can I dock the BottomLine to different areas on my desktop?
Simply drag it by its edges to wherever you'd like it. The cursor will turn into a four-way arrow when your mouse is over a draggable edge. If you move it close to the top or bottom of your screen, it will 'snap' into place. If you decide to have to 'float' on your desktop, you can turn off or on the 'Always on Top' option using the red 'E' icon in the lower *right* side of your Windows Taskbar.

seens like bottom line would work

BadMouth:
Thanks for the replies.  I have zero coding skills, so I guess I'll try bottom line and some kind of magnification program.
If anyone else does have the skills and would be interested in coding something, this might be useful:
http://espn.go.com/bottomline/faq.html#gen1

EDIT: Tried with with a magnifier program and the text is pretty pixelated, but it doesn't look that bad if you're more than a few feet away from the screen.
Guess I'll go this route until I find something better.  

I might try putting the original bottom line on a 2nd monitor (the tv, which will be on the game, not the pc input) and then putting the magnified window on the jukebox with a blacked out frame and the rest of the screen blacked out.  That should get the effect I want, aside from the text being pixelated due to it being magnified.

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