Live sport, and why rights change what you get
The one library where what is included is a moving target, and how to check before you commit.
Last updated: 11 August 2026
Live sport is part of the subscription
Live sports streaming is one of the seven things the membership covers. It is also the one where we are least willing to tell you what you will find, and the reason is worth understanding.
Sports rights are sold in slices, and they move
Nobody owns "football" or "basketball". Rights are sold competition by competition, territory by territory, and for a fixed number of years. When a deal ends the fixtures move to whoever bought the next one. This happens constantly, and it happens to every service that carries live sport rather than to this one in particular.
The practical consequence: any list of competitions published today can be wrong next season, and a promoter site that printed one would be setting you up for a disappointment it could not be held to.
What that means for your decision
If live sport is a bonus on top of six other libraries, this is not something to agonise over.
If live sport is the reason you are subscribing, treat it differently:
- Find the schedule during the three-day trial and look for the specific competition you care about. Not the sport - the competition.
- Check whether the fixtures you want are actually live, or highlights and studio coverage.
- Check the region. Rights are territorial, and a service can carry an event in one country and not in another.
If the thing you want is not there during the trial, it is not going to appear because you subscribed.
Blackouts and regional restrictions
Even where a competition is carried, individual fixtures can be unavailable in particular territories because a local broadcaster holds them. This is normal across the industry. It is also invisible until it happens, which is another argument for checking during the trial rather than after.