receiving a user's preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and sporting event viewing and recording;

inferring additional user preferences for sports related electronic program guide (EPG) presentation, and sporting event viewing and recording from the user's actions and behavior;

determining if a circumstance has occurred in one or more sporting events being monitored in the EPG, or in the process of being recorded or stored that will trigger a change in at least one of: the EPG, the recording of the one or more sporting events, or the one or more sporting events being stored;

wherein the determining if a circumstance has occurred is based on at least one of the following: A/V information contained in a broadcast signal, a web service, or a really simple syndication (RSS) feed;

changing the EPG in response to the triggering circumstance, wherein the changing of the EPG further comprises removing or adding one or more sporting event listings in the EPG based on the sporting event's score differential, while the one or more sporting events are in progress;

removing recorded sports programming with a final score differential exceeding a predefined or the user specified threshold;

removing recorded sports programming in which the user's favorite team lost;

retaining segments of a sports recording surrounding a score change;

providing real-time notification of score changes, comebacks, and upsets occurring in the one or more sporting events;

wherein the type of real-time notification is inferred from a sport being watched by the user; and

generating highlight recordings of the one or more sporting events.