Here is a widget that displays the current score of a hockey game if your team is playing!
Copy and paste the code and simply change the TEAM_NAME. This as in no way been tested and I've been working on this for less than an hour, but it works for now, for me so why not share 
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set TEAM_NAME to "Canadiens"
set myTeam to my GetTeam(TEAM_NAME)
set live to IsLive(myTeam)
set game to getGame(myTeam)
return (getHomeScore(game) as string) & " - " & getAwayScore(game) & "
" & getHomeName(game) & " - " & getAwayName(game)
on getHomeScore(TheGame)
return score of home of teams of TheGame
end getHomeScore
on getHomeName(TheGame)
return |name| of team of home of teams of TheGame
end getHomeName
on getAwayScore(TheGame)
return score of away of teams of TheGame
end getAwayScore
on getAwayName(TheGame)
return |name| of team of away of teams of TheGame
end getAwayName
on getGame(TheTeam)
return item 1 of games of item 1 of |dates| of nextGameSchedule of TheTeam
end getGame
on IsLive(TheTeam)
try
if (abstractGameState of status of item 1 of games of item 1 of |dates| of nextGameSchedule of TheTeam) is equal to "Live" then
return true
else
return false
end if
end try
return false
end IsLive
on GetTeam(theTeamName)
tell application "JSON Helper"
set teamsData to fetch JSON from "https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/teams?expand=team.schedule.next"
set TheTeam to null
set theIndex to 1
set allTeamNames to ""
repeat count of teams of teamsData times
if teamName of item theIndex of teams of teamsData contains theTeamName then
set TheTeam to item theIndex of teams of teamsData
end if
set theIndex to theIndex + 1
end repeat
end tell
if TheTeam is null then
error "Impossible to find team " & theTeamName
end if
return TheTeam
end GetTeam
can we do that with football?