This Saturday was about as throwing-things livid I’ve been over a sports contest in a decade. The last time I was this angry was in 2003, when Jorge Posada doubled off of Pedro Martinez to tie the seventh game of the American League Championship Series. I kicked a rubbish bin across the newsroom of the Rocky Mountain News and cursed Grady Little and his mother. Brian Crecente asked the supervising editor to reprimand me.
In between two of the most-watched college basketball games ever played in November, the NBA’s Doomsday Clock inched closer to midnight when its players rejected a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum and dissolved their union. It’s the nuclear winter scenario analysts imagined when they pegged worst-case losses at $US40 million for NBA 2K12, the lone video game caught in the crossfire.
No NCAA basketball title will release this year, but that doesn’t mean people can’t sue over ones made last year. A former Tennessee basketball player is joining the legal action against the NCAA and EA Sports over the unauthorized use of his likeness.
EA Sports has confirmed that it is discontinuing its NCAA Basketball franchise, which next year will leave the sport without a video game for the first time in 12 years.