Bleacher Report: Sports News Reviews

I’ve been using BleacherReport for over 2 years, and it’s definitely one of my favorites. However, BleacherReport has been terrible as of late. First of all, I got banned for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON at over 200 followers. I literally never commented anything remotely bad or against TOS, but I got banned with no notice or reason. I tried contacting customer service, but they never responded. So, slightly discouraged, I created a new account. I grew this account to over 500 followers, and BAM, out of nowhere I’m banned again. Once more, I never commented anything that could be even close to something I could be banned for. I’m not sure what the deal is, but getting banned for no reason, and given no explanation is just dumb. So, after getting banned twice, I created an account again, but I only use it for viewing, I never comment anything. Its been a month, but haven’t been banned yet.

But the thing that prompted me to write this review wasn’t that. Ever since I got the iPhone 12 (BleacherReport did occasionally crash on my old iPhone, it was manageable) BleacherReport LITERALLY CRASHING 5 SECONDS AFTER OPENING EVERY SINGLE TIME. I’m about to delete BleacherReport since it is unusable, and incredibly frustrating. I would really love you be able to use BleacherReport , but I simply can’t. If this was a small bug on the new phones, it would have already been fixed by now. What is the deal BR?

BleacherReport is littered with pop up ads. Every time I click on (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) an article to read I am either interrupted or prompted to pay for a subscribed (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) service. While BleacherReport in principle covers many (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) sports and allows you to follow your favorite (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) teams, even setting priorities for your news feed, you’re better off just (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) reading the headlines and checking scores, both of which can (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) be found in an sport-official app such as MLB app and others. App also links a lot of content (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad) to Twitter, and if I wanted to use Twitter I’d just (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad is this annoying yet? Yeah I bet. And so is BleacherReport when it does it get the picture?) reactivate my Twitter account and participate that way. At least Twitter has (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad and you thought I was done) an ad blocker. In other words, for complete stories use other apps otherwise risk being (this review is being interrupted by a simulated pop up ad)...

I’ll start off by saying when I try to read articles not written by Bleacher report the fully loaded page turns white making it literally impossible to read. Kind of annoying and it’s only when it’s non bleacher report articles. iPhone Xs

The rest is about Bleacher report itself.

Annoyed of the constant click baiting when I just want good sports knowledge. Constant errors in the writing, it doesn’t seem like they have an editor. Sometimes it’s really minor stuff like a misspelled word. Most writing programs have a spell check feature so it’s really bothersome that the writer couldn’t click a few extra buttons to make the article better but I think it’s actually representative of the writing in general. I don’t think much time or care is taken with the assignments. I definitely think they are more interested in getting you to click something rather than making sure whatever they write is worth clicking. I am slowly and slowly finding myself just going to google and searching for writers who I know took time to write rather than go on BleacherReport and that’s kinda sad cause BleacherReport is really what got me into sports as much as I am. I understand you got to keep the lights on but I just want to be entertained or interested not bored or mad.

This used to be by far the best app for sports. Now BleacherReport is almost completely unusable. The first reason is when I’m reading articles they jump randomly when the ads load in. And this happen about 30 times while I’m trying to read something so I have to find and refind my spot in the article constantly. The second reason BleacherReport is becoming unusable is that some video ads will randomly go full screen while I’m reading the article so I have to close the ads the find my spot in the article again. The last reason is their still isn’t dark mode! The entire app is white and I keep my brightness almost completely down but it’s still extremely bright when I’m at BleacherReport at night. So just add dark mode. Also if the problem with the articles jumping isn’t fixed soon I’m deleting BleacherReport I just can’t deal with that anymore. And if the video ads going full screen doesn’t stop too I’m also deleting BleacherReport it’s just way too annoying. Update March 31: I’m done with BleacherReport. There are now ads in the twitter feeds. I’m officially deleting this terrible app. Bleacher Report literally only cares about money and no longer cares about the quality of their app so I will no longer support them. I am deleting BleacherReport . So great job Bleacher Report you just lost one of your longest term users.

First time buying an AEW ppv on BleacherReport, and the stream worked fine on my Apple TV - no issues there, and the stream was high quality. However, the UI could really use some work for finding PPVs and finding your library afterwards. It’s hidden under “My Events” in my profile, when really it should have a dedicated tab for streams/purchases. The ATV app seems a little more simplified in this regard at least, which is where it counts.

Also an issue I ran into: I was logged into BleacherReport on my phone earlier in the day, before I bought the PPV. Then when I actually bought it, come to find out, I had been logged out at some point, so my purchase wasn’t associated with any BR account. Thought I threw out $50 because I couldn’t get it to play on the native ATV app when I was signed in, but luckily I found the link to “sign in to link my purchase” on the stream on my phone. It just made it kind of hassle to get it to show up on the ATV BR app, and I’m not sure the average person would have been able to figure it out. Might be a good idea to make that link or a restore purchases option more visible/obvious.

To get into the confusing details, I will say my day and night has been full of frustration. I bought an AEW ppv 2 days early might I add through bleacher report app in order to be "ready" ahead of time.
To my dismay, even after activating my Xbox one for like the 20th time for Bleacher Report, I cannot access the AEW ppv I had purchased. So I get on BleacherReport on my iPhone and go to view purchases and it says no purchases stored. I literally have the screenshot of my Apple ID and receipt for my purchase and whatever is wrong with their system has to be happening to people other than me. Their customer service is legitimately almost Non Reachable. Emails take forever to get responded too. Live chat doesn't even exist because it disconnects you. And when I did get through to customer service on phone he tells me to email them!
I said I have 4 times! Second time I told him this he must not understand or has a bad connection. So I start reading the reference number emailed back to me about the issue I sent screenshots of and also my receipt and he can't hear the final numbers and the line cuts off. Are you kidding me?
I will never buy anything through this crap company again. STAY AWAY!

b/r is obviously a must for a sports fan. but there are a few things i wish it had. my main thing is the articles. most of the time the articles b/r includes under your favorite teams are sourced from other publications. that’s not a problem at all, i just really hate clicking to read one and being taken to another website, being subjected to that site’s cookies, ads, etc. kinda annoying. if i’m not mistaken, back in the day b/r would get those same articles but present them to you from within the format of the b/r app. i don’t doubt that the reason they stopped doing this was due to some legalities or deals made with publishers in order to continue using their content, but i’ve definitely not clicked on some articles before when i know the publication’s site that it will lead me to will be a hassle to navigate through.

also, on a much less serious note (i’ve been crying about this forever) i wish they adopted a night mode on their app. so many times before bed i open b/r and i just wish there was a darker interface option so i wouldn’t have to have that white background reflecting on my face.

i do enjoy that b/r is implementing social media features into their app—that experience has been fun. although b/r has been around for a minute now, i still see a lot potential for BleacherReport. i feel like they’ll ultimately get there, just at a bit of snail’s pace.

Great app. I love the articles. I would give a 5 star, if you had a way to see previously read articles or were able to favorite preciously read articles like the “News” app on iPhone. It makes it incredibly more convenient and easier to share articles or refer back to an article when needed. I’ve given up on multiple occasions when trying to find an article I’m referencing when talking to friends or family or when I’m trying to see if someone’s responded to my comment. Locating a previously read article is so difficult, I’ve been unsuccessful with finding some articles even after going to bleacher report after a few minutes, notably if the article is under the “Fire” category. Usually, I have to do a google search of the terms I remember + bleacher report just to pull up a previously read article. This issue should not be an issue in this day and age.

My account got banned without warning. The only thing that would even lead me to know this is that I can no longer comment on anything. When I try to comment, I get an error message that doesn’t say anything about being banned. It even says “try again later” which is obviously a lie if I’m banned. I emailed support and they re-instated my account, but I was still never told how or why I was banned. I never comment anything ban-worthy. I stick to my own team’s community and generally just comment occasionally. The only thing I can think of is if I was in a debate with someone about the team and they just reported me for no reason and I was banned with no oversight from an actual human. Just an algorithm that says “he was reported, ban his account.” Ridiculous. But don’t worry, I won’t be commenting much anymore because for some reason BleacherReport attributes your actual name (not your user name) to the comments. B/R is trying to turn into a social media platform instead of just being the sports app that it is...

I used to love BleacherReport. I recommended it to all my friends. It was comprehensive, concise, intuitive, and most of all; the information I needed and wanted was right at my fingertips. In a recent update, that all changed.
They changed the bar across the top of the home page that used to show my team’s current and upcoming games. Now it shows current games and a bunch of completely irrelevant games from sports I didn’t even tell BleacherReport I liked! To find my team’s upcoming games, I have to dig around in scores, which is inconvenient and unnecessary.
I also used to be able to tap on a game to see where it would be broadcast. Can no longer do that. Again, have to find that in the scores, extra searching, and it’s no longer customized for my local market so I still don’t know where I can find the game. (I’m in Ohio, when the Cavs are playing OKC, it’s no help to tell me they’re on FS OKC, are they on FSO?)
My homepage feed no longer seems to be customized to my preferences.
Frankly, I’m just waiting to find a replacement app and then I’ll dump this one.

Please update BleacherReport to notify users when a game has started and ended. Also, update app with notifications for any and all scoring changes, which include notifications for when an inning/quarter/period ends along with scores. Notifications for starting lineups would also be great. If for some reason BleacherReport does offer these notification features then there needs to be an update to fix any bugs that are preventing me from receiving them. I have gone through the entire app to make sure I have all the notifications I want on but don’t receive anything related to what I’ve requested at the top. I bounce back and forth from Bleacher Report to The Score app because the latter does offer these notifications. The only thing is that those notifications come in unnecessary waves of useless info like podcasts alerts and stories that I don’t particularly care for.

I am a BR user and have been for years, but the platform has so many flaws that bring down the quality. There are some small bugs, for example BleacherReport has listed the same bruins players as injured for every game this season, but usually BleacherReport runs well and does what it’s supposed to. My main issue comes with the content. Not only are there so many articles that are behind paywalls, but BR refuses to give relevant news to what I ask for. I have no interest in baseball, soccer, or many college sports but bleacher report forces this stuff into my main feed, often as the top articles. I have seen a multitude of headline articles that are entirely based on one athlete’s tweet that has little meaning. There are frequent misleading and clickbait titles. There is frequent drawing conclusions with almost no evidence. All in all bleacher report does not demand much quality from its content, it settles for quantity instead. I wish I could find a better sports app because this one leaves a lot to be desired.

The Bleacher Report of days gone by is gone. BleacherReport has always had performance issues with the screen turning black while reading an article and random crashes. Now I can’t even open BleacherReport without it crashing. Before that happened, articles were constantly reloading. It’s totally unusable.
I suppose that’s okay though. It’s helping me finally acknowledge that BR is no longer worth using. They curated a lot of articles from other sources, but now it’s mostly just tweets and their own crappy re-drafts and poorly written articles.
BleacherReport has also turned into left-wing reporting that is tangentially related to sports. A feature article on the Atlanta Hawks that is actually just about Rayshard Brooks? An interview with JJ Redick on how Lebron and KD haters are racists? Absolutely no coverage of DeShaun Jackson’s anti-Semitism?
Apparently BR is now just a bunch of far leftists who think we are more interested in their agenda than actual sports and who can’t even make a functioning app.

I’ve had bleacher report since it was on the old app and it was called Team Stream and I love it and use it everyday for my sports news. However, I have one thing I wish you guys would add. On the Scores page either under each matchup, or as part of the Game Info section under its preview could you please put what channel the game is being covered on? There are lots of games that I want to watch but am not sure where they are playing on tv and have to look it up somewhere else. Like the Copa America final today for example, it was on telemundo and I spent the first five minutes of the match looking for it online and on my guide. If you could add that BleacherReport would be perfect!

Thanks!

Let me first say I love the content of BleacherReport..
The articles are great and informative. The functionality however is trash. I can only speak for the iPhone app because that’s all I’ve used. First BleacherReport automatically refresh’s the page in the middle of reading over and over again making it extremely frustrating, annoying, and almost impossible to read. At first I thought this was just a glitch and would be fixed after a while. That was last year and it’s still happening… They must make more 🏦💰💵 for hits on sights. Second, the amount of pop up adds is ridiculous. I understand it’s a free app and you gotta make money somehow but again it makes it very hard to read and enjoy. This has gotten a little better but is still annoying. I’m not trying to bash BleacherReport I have no agenda. I just feel it needs some tweaking and I would give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Useless app and webpage. So many pop ups and ads you spend most of your time waiting for loading. If I could rate it minus stars it would be a -10. But the only way to warn you is to give it 1
I was contacted by BleacherReport developers to find out exactly why I rated BleacherReport a -100. All you have to do is try to bring up the web page. The developers try to funnel you into using the bleacher app so they can bombard you with advertisement. The sports news is a forgotten thought. The web page takes an hour to load and then only 2 articles with only a picture and a caption load. My recommendation is these developers are more suited for selling hot dogs from a cart or shoes.
Update:
It has been months since i posted a review with a very negative slant on the developers of this site. They continue to fail big time. The knickswall is a real sports app. They are more interested in sports stories than selling merchandise. dump this dopes

I love BleacherReport but I have an issue with something here. I love sports and I love the creativity with the stories. But one thing i do not like is negative comments. There are parts of BleacherReport where the story is there and you can see two comments instead of saying view comments. Usually those comments are racist or somebody talking bad about something. I think the comments section needs to be hidden and if people want to see more they will press view comments. Some have that some don’t. There should also be an option in the settings to not have comments. I just want to read sports. I’m not interested in someone’s opinion that’s a completely negative comment. Click on any comment section all you see is negative, hatred .. if you guys are trying to help then give us options to not see that.

With recent updates, BleacherReport tends to freeze up a lot, especially when trying to use the “back” button. I keep having to close BleacherReport and reopen to get back to the Home Screen.

My other issue is one that has plagued BleacherReport as long as I have used it. Poor content filters. Example 1: there is an overall NFL thread. I choose a thread for a specific team to filter out other news, yet in that team thread there are still articles that have nothing to do with that team. Example 2: There is a WWE thread. There is an AEW thread. Both of those threads have bleed-over. I would like to see the lists of stories in specific threads kept on-topic without the irrelevant articles that seem to be cross posted just for click bait. That defeats the purpose of topic-specific filtering at its premise.

BleacherReport is a total upgrade from the ESPN app where it is hard to get to an article you are looking for, this has all the up to date sports info before every other app like ESPN and CBS Sports. BleacherReport also gives you easy access to highlights or cool plays of any sport, on the other apps you have to search and search and sometimes it not even there like you want it to be. You can also discuss opinions with the other users and it's nice when you want to say something about what just happened and you have no one else to tell so you turn to Bleacher Report. BleacherReport is a very good and well maintained app and deserves five stars

Bleacher Report is not a bad concept, its execution is awful though. Articles about specific players are always emphasized to get a negative reaction & titles are often click bait titles with no substance to encourage reactions and viewership.

Player's like OBJ, Cam Newton, Lamar Jackson, e.t.c are often promoted in a controversial light as BR knows many middle aged white men in America will spew hateful rhetoric at literally any article about them. Seriously, they could post an article about them donating a million to charity and it would be filled with hateful comments. That’s how many pathetic trolls exist on this site. I have always felt that average sports fan has a slightly below average IQ, BR seeks to confirm that theory every time I step on BleacherReport . Pay the little bit extra for the Athletic, its 1000% worth it if you don’t want to develop cancer reading stupid and ignorant opinions.

While the sportswriters who write the articles are truly sucky human beings, the whole system is great. I love the personalized home with stuff that i actually care about, and i love that you can follow brands (like nike and yeezy) and music artists. There are also ways to use free trials for a few days which is nice, and athlete q and a’s which are epic.
Also, though after a few awesome months, whenever i tried to fire something or comment it would just say invalid response, so that’s why this is 2 star. Hopefully this does not happen to you.
Update: AWFUL customer service. My account was apparently suspended and I had no clue why, and I was told to email a certain address and never got a reply. They should be ashamed.
Another Update: Eventually they got back to me and were very courteous and restored my account.

BleacherReport lets you pick your favorite teams and access articles and news on them through a easy to understand user interface. I also love how you can turn off notifications for each individual sport so when basketball is in the off-season I turn off notifications while I pay attention to football. Also it has an active, yet sometimes rowdy, user base to there are tons of ways to connect with fellow fans and see what people think after games or breaking news.

One criticism however: can we please go back to showing season stats for players for the upcoming game match ups? I don’t care what the stats for the last game were and often it doesn’t impact the current game all too much. Wanna see season stats.

While you may think this is a bs paid review it’s not. I’ve been a fantasy football commissioner for 6 years and been in a league for 12. This is by far the best app I’ve downloaded for football info. I run my league on espn but they always seem to be a step behind. I get notified by BleacherReport long before espn posts injuries and any other things to effect my team. If you want to be up on what’s going on before everyone else this is BleacherReport you need. I can’t promise you a championship but BleacherReport gives you the info to help make better decisions. Oh yeah and it’s free so if you don’t like it after 2 weeks delete it but I would bet you probably won’t.

BleacherReport is really great when first using it. However after sometimes you don’t receive any alerts for the teams you have alerts for. So what’s the point of BleacherReport if I’m not receiving notifications for my sports. Yes I do have bleacher report enabled in my settings for notifications and also in app as well. And I haven’t been able to get a notification for months. When BleacherReport was working, everything worked well and it was better than ESPN which I deleted for bleacher report. Also, bleacher report would be quicker to give alerts than ESPN as well.

Bleacher Report is a good source, overall. My biggest criticism is how awful the writers are for the WWE page. They constantly knock the product by writing negative articles. Throughout their recaps of shows and events, they make overly biased, condescending comments about what transpired, as if they could have done better if they had wrote the show. Do they even like wrestling? Do they understand how wrestling works? It would be nice to read about what happened on Raw or Smackdown without having to read several amateur snipes about the product, which only makes them seem bitter and pretentious. I don’t even bother reading any of their articles anymore about “So and So must do “X” to stay relevant”. Again, bitter and pretentious writing. I hope Bleacher Report recognizes their WWE writers’s incompetence and puts an end to it.

I know this is soccer so it isn’t big for Bleacher Report unless it is the Premier League but the standings are either not up to date or no longer even there. Example: Serie A, Champions League and Juventus among others.

They used to be there but now that and schedules for national teams are not updated. This is not difficult to update especially since they were there. It seems it is intermittent depending on the week, meaning sometimes it is there, sometimes not, and sometimes it s the champions league schedule even if the team isn’t in the champions league, which makes BleacherReport even more difficult to navigate than it already is.

Also the schedule for My Teams is skewed and it often doesn’t show up on the header and sometimes the schedules are not updated until after a match is played even on the team’s schedule page.

I use BleacherReport ALOT, whether it be to read up on new stories or check in on analysis or predictions or check scores. The only thing I’d love if they added was to be able to edit your comment. I comment a lot on stories and articles so I engage in the comment section a lot. I’ve seen everyone including myself make a spelling mistake. It would be cool if you guys added the option to edit your comments and maybe showing that the comment was edited. I can see people fixing their comment and going back on something they said so showing like a transcript history would be beneficial. Thanks for all you do B/R, you guys have changed the game for sports reporting and sports app

BleacherReport is generally very good. Unpopular opinion: the stories are great! It’s not your everyday sports app, while it can give you the final score to the games, it also gives you more lighthearted and funny stories that the MLB and NFL for example, don’t give you. I understand why some people don’t like to get stories based on the jokes and stuff that goes on within the professional sports leagues, but I think it’s great, knowing that you can also get your basic sports news here and from many other apps. If you want a new look on your favorite sports teams, look no further than bleacher report.

I love using the Bleacher Report for all my sports needs, however lately certain articles will not open. Currently the two I have trouble with is LA Times and The Athletic. What is annoying is that I see the article on Bleacher Report and I get excited to read it and then find that it won’t open unless I subscribe to that company and pay a fee. Why do I need Bleacher Report if I can’t open the articles and I have to sign up for other company articles to read anything? I would just as well prefer that those articles were not there or if they were better identified as articles you need memberships for to read. Then I wouldn’t get excited about articles I am not allowed to read.