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Apple News User Guide

  • Welcome
    • Explore channels, topics, and stories
    • Search for channels, topics, or stories
    • Sync News on all your Apple devices
    • Use News widgets
    • Sign up for or cancel Apple News newsletters
    • Follow and unfollow
    • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
    • Block and unblock
    • Subscribe to individual channels
    • Watch videos
    • See more or fewer stories like the current one
    • Share stories with others
    • Read stories shared with you
    • Save stories
    • Report a concern about a story
    • Subscribe
    • Read Apple News+
    • Download issues
    • Remove downloaded issues
      • Find puzzles
      • Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles
      • Solve Quartiles puzzles
      • Play Emoji Game
      • Solve sudoku puzzles
    • Change settings
    • View or clear your reading history
    • Change the window or text size
    • Use windows and tabs
    • Manage notifications
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Copyright

Follow your favorite teams with My Sports in News on Mac

With My Sports in Apple News, you can follow your favorite sports, leagues, teams, and athletes; receive stories from top sports publications, local newspapers, and more; access scores, schedules, and standings for the top professional and college leagues; and watch highlights.

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Set up your Mac to use My Sports

Before you can use My Sports, you need to do the following:

  • Sign in to your Apple Account on your Mac.

  • Sign in to the App Store on your Mac.

Get started with My Sports

Before you can use My Sports, you need to allow syncing between Apple News, the Apple TV app, and the Apple Sports app (on iPhone). When you allow syncing, you automatically follow the same teams in all three apps.

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click Sports in the sidebar, then click Get Started.

  3. Click Pick Your Teams to allow syncing between Apple News, the Apple TV app, and the Apple Sports app.

  4. In the Manage My Sports dialog, click the Add button next to sports, leagues, or teams to follow them.

    Sports you previously expressed interest in appear below Suggested.

  5. To search for a sports topic, enter a search term (such as a team’s name or location) in the search field, click the Add button next to a result, then click Done.

After you allow syncing, you can sign up for the Sports newsletter for stories and team updates. See Sign up for newsletters.

View sports coverage

  1. Go to News app on your Mac.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click Sports in the sidebar.

    • Click the Today feed, then scroll down to Sports. Information about your favorite teams appears in For You.

Browse all available sports

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click Sports in the sidebar, then click All Sports at the top right of the window.

  3. Click a league or sport to go to its feed.

  4. To follow that league or sport, click the Share button, then click Follow League or Follow Sport.

    Tip: You can follow specific teams from within a league or sport feed. Click the team’s logo, click the Share button, then click Follow Team.

Manage sports topics

After you set up My Sports, you can follow and unfollow sports topics.

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click Sports in the sidebar, then scroll down to My Sports.

  3. Click Manage, then do one of the following:

    • Unfollow a sports topic: Go to Following, click the Remove button next to the topic, then click Unfollow.

    • Add a new sports topic: Click the Add button next to the suggested topics, or use the search field to find a specific team, league, or athlete.

  4. Click Done.

Show scores and schedules, highlights, and more

My Sports offers scores and schedules for your favorite teams, stats and stories for individual games and events, video highlights, and stories related to your favorite teams.

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click Sports in the sidebar, then do any of the following:

    • Show schedules and scores: Schedules and scores for your favorite leagues and teams appear at the top of the window. To see stats and scores for an individual game, click its tile. Click See More to see upcoming games for your favorite leagues and teams.

    • Watch a live game: Click a game from the schedules and scores that appear at the top of the tab, then click Open in Apple TV (before or after the game) or Watch on Apple TV (during a live game). If the game is available in your area and you subscribe to a service that broadcasts the game, you can watch it in the Apple TV app or in a supported app.

      Supported sports apps may require a separate subscription. Not all games are available in all areas.

    • View highlights: Scroll down to Highlights, then click the Play button in the thumbnail. Click the Highlights heading to see more highlights.

      Note: Highlights are available only for select leagues.

    • Read sports stories related to topics you follow: Scroll down to For You, then click a story.

Get notifications about sports

You can receive notifications about teams you follow, as long as you have notifications turned on for the News app. See Manage notifications from News.

  1. Go to the News app on your Mac.

  2. Click Sports in the sidebar, then click <