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Play Ball! Five Baseball Video Games to Line Up This Season

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”

– Paul Gallico

Also, let’s not forget that both beer and hot dogs inexplicably taste better inside a ballpark than they do anywhere else. Fact.

With the 2011 baseball season …

Will NFL Shutdown Torpedo Madden NFL 12?

With the NFL embroiled in player lockouts, antitrust suits, and overheated rhetoric, diehard fans have one very pressing question: will EA’s perennial Madden NFL update happen this year?

Relax, Madden junkies — the answer’s an unequivocal “yes.” (Now, whether EA makes as much bank off of you is another question, which we’ll get to in …

Will Your Team’s Website Survive an NFL Lockout?

Last week, 330 fresh-from-college players, just under 1,000 coaches, executives and scouts and over 700 credentialed media members flooded Indianapolis for the NFL’s annual scouting combine. It is the closest thing that professional football has to a convention; even a late-night trip to the flagship Steak ‘n Shake downtown yields an …

The Iditarod Gets Some Nifty Gadgets

The Iditarod contenders might still follow the original 1,150 mile trail that was run a century ago, but it’s going to be a completely updated race this March 5. Now, most teams are bringing high-tech outdoors equipment including custom-made sleds with adjustable runners for different types of weather conditions and GPS devices to track …

Shoefitr: Perfect Fit for Online Shoe Shopping?

Buying shoes over the web is rather like running your first marathon: painful.

The problem with buying shoes (or any kind of clothing) online is that you can’t be certain that they will fit.

The result is a lot of trial-and-error, and millions of dollars spent every year shipping returned goods (and their replacements) between …

NFL Coaches to Swap Printouts and Playbooks for iPads?

Apparently a few NFL teams are considering the benefits of tablet devices such as the iPad over plain old paper.

CNET reports that the Dallas Cowboys, in particular, have determined that going digital “could save them as much as 5,000 pages of paper printouts per game.” It’s an intriguing idea but it’ll likely face quite an uphill …

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