Apple's free Sports app for the iPhone now covers the UFC, and it picked up three more soccer leagues in the same update.
The UFC support includes the full card of men's and women's events, so every fight on an event is listed, not just the headliner. During fights, the app offers round-by-round updates and a heat map of strikes, among other features. The new soccer coverage is the Chinese Super League, the Russian Premier League and Sweden's Allsvenskan.
The round-by-round updates fit the sport well. A fight is structured in rounds, so a score-checking app has something to report before the final result. The heat map is the more ambitious piece, because it moves the app from scores into in-fight data. Whether it earns its place will depend on how readable it is on a phone screen.
The soccer additions are a smaller change, and they matter mainly to fans of those three leagues. Together, the two additions show the app growing in two directions at once: deeper on one sport, wider on another. The app is free, so testing the heat map costs a download.