Think I figured it out. It turns out that under personal settings (i.e. bluetooth, wifi, data etc...) I had the Data setting turned "ON". We figured this out (me and another Sprint rep) by going back into the "running apps" screen and for some reason, Sprint was on the list and it indicated that my phone had been communicating with Sprint for quite a few hours. I turned the data setting to OFF and my battery has been fine today so far. I guess I had the Data setting turned to ON because I thought it had to be set to on in order to receive email and text and everything through the Sprint network. Guess thats what I get for trying to be smart
and I think this will also fix the weird message that I got when I tried to use Sprint tv. It gave some message about needing to use my carriers network to use it.