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I don't know about boxing but to watch the NBA (I know that's not going to cover college sports), you can get NBA League Pass for around $100. It's not necessarily cheap but it's cheaper than paying the $64 a month I used to with DirecTV (the cheapest option in my area).

Edit: Just wanted to point out that it's $100 for a whole season and not per month of course.

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The online version of NBA league pass is basically useless.

1) All nationally televised games are blacked out (anything on ABC, TNT, ESPN, etc.)

2) Locally televised games are blacked out on a by region basis. So if you want to watch the Heat play, but they're broadcasting the game on Fox Sports East or whatever and you live in Florida, you can't watch it.

3) The video quality is incredibly low. It's an SD stream at less than 1 mbps. Godawful. To be fair though, the Cable version of League Pass also sports some awful video quality (super compressed HD when that's even available, and it frequently isn't).

I could never get it to run correctly on OS X. And they wouldnt refund my money. They need to hire the MLB at bat guys.

Regarding the video quality, they do stream some games in HD. As far as I know, it's still a minority of games at this point though.

MLB has a similar arrangement for between $40 and $50 a year.

I'm not sure where you're getting your info (perhaps you saw the price for the remainder of this season) but it used to be $100-$120 depending on which Even you bought. It went up slightly this year, though I'm not sue how much since they let returning subscribers keep the old rate.

I don't follow baseball so please correct me if this information is for something less than it seems to me. A quick google search brought up two services (MLB.tv and MLB Extra Innings). The former seems to cost about $40-$50 while the latter is in the $200 range for the season. Also, Extra Innings looks like an add on package to an existing cable/satellite subscription while MLB.tv is a standalone service.

MLB.tv: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp

Extra Innings (found price info on Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_Extra_Innings

The current prices on mlb.tv are prorated for the rest of the 2012 season (the season is roughly 4 months in with 2 to go).

The 19.99 per month price reflects something closer to the normal price which would be around 20 a month for the full 6 month(ish) season.

I posted a reply above, but I also wanted to point out that MLB is similarly blacked out on a regional basis. You could use a VPN to get around that, but that's an annoyance that most people will not (or can not) go through to avoid paying for cable.

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