Hi guys, I'm the Software Engineer leading Live Scores, I'd love to get suggestions and feedback from you. I admit our alert notifications have been running slow, we're working hard to turn up the volume. The latest Live Scores 1.4.4 includes a lot of performance improvements as well as game picks for pre-games and the ability to set your default start sport.
There is some confusion about how the app picks a sport for startup. There are two different behaviors. If you exit the app by hitting the home button, the app will resume where it left off the next time you open it (unless the android os killed it for other reasons). If you exit the app by using the back button (or kill the app by other means) the app will startup with the sport you selected under Menu->Settings->AppSettings.
Thanks for using Live Scores!