Here’s the sad truth about sports score apps: Most of them aren’t all that interested in actually telling you the score.

After all, where’s the money in providing straightforward information like that? The modern sports score app has to do more. It must bombard you with banner ads and betting odds, implore you to create an account and opt into notifications, sell you some tickets, and show some videos to keep engagement up. The scores themselves are an afterthought.

Fortunately, there’s an alternative that tells you the outcomes of every major sporting event without distractions.

And the same sort of resources are available to bring minimalist magic to your news, weather, and even navigation, too—if you know where to look.

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First things first: For a simpler way to look up sports scores, just head to PlainTextSports.com​ in any web browser.

➜ Plain Text Sports is a website that lists out sports scores using only letters, numbers, and characters.

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