SportsTap – a leading sports scores and information portal app for the iPhone – has been updated and now has push notifications enabled, yet another app to follow this lead.

We’re very happy to see this one updated, as SportsTap has been a favorite app of many since its days as a web app. Many even prefer it to ESPN’s ScoreCenter, and like the way they have implemented alerts as well.

Instead of just offering the basic choice of whether to let notifications use sounds / alerts / badges, or serving me up alerts on everything the app deems a major headline, it lets the user choose which sports, and even which teams they want to get alerts on, making it easy to follow a team.

The latest update – to Version 3.0 – also includes some UI enhancements and bug fixes. One notable one is a new method for customizing your sports page.

SportsTap 3.0 is in the App Store now, it’s still a free app, and a very good one if you’re a sports fan.