football
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Two Quarterbacks, One Eyebrow: Madden Brokers A Ridiculous Bet
EA Sports managed to goad Madden NFL pitchmen Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson into making one incredibly ridiculous bet when their teams meet next week: The loser will shave off an eyebrow. Not in the game, either, in real life.
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Footballer Makes Million-Dollar Move After Playing Video Game With New Boss
Queens Park Rangers offered a club-record sum to acquire Loïc Rémy, the French international footballer, from Marseille, but to hear the striker tell of it, the money wasn’t the deciding factor, it was a video game.
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Madden’s Loss Of Fantasy Exposes Reality Of Sports Video Games
No one I know seriously plays “Mascot Mashup” in NCAA Football, except for maybe the six-year-old son of a good friend from Oregon, who enjoys slamming the “GoDucks” into 11 of his dad’s Stanford Trees. About the most I ever hear about the mode each year from EA Sports is when a developer jokes that…
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Scottish Team’s Bankruptcy Means FIFA 13 Faces A Financial Decision, Too
It’s a simple truth: A club that is relegated out of a league appearing in EA Sports’ FIFA runs the risk of getting relegated out of the video game, too. For the more popular sides, this usually isn’t much of a threat, and in any event many of the biggest leagues run two divisions deep,…