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By buying up all outstanding shares of Atari stock, Infogrames has completely absorbed a company they already controlled as their American distribution arm.

There are a ton of clowns out there handing out draft grades this week for a draft in which no one has played yet. How can you grade the draft now? The closest we’ve ever seen to being able to grade a draft is to just go by position. You needed a [...]

League sources have told the Seattle Times that Kevin Durant will win this year’s Rookie of the Year award.
Durant averaged 20.3 PPG, 4.4 RPG and 2.4 APG. He was the second overall pick in this year’s draft behind Ohio State’s Greg Oden, who got hurt before the season even started.

10-year veteran Surry County investigator Bill Brinkman lost his job over the Michael Vick case. Did he botch something? Did he tamper with evidence? Did he try to protect Vick and let the superstar athlete walk? Nope, he lost his job because he pursued the case and wanted an inhumane criminal brought to justice. Something [...]

During Iverson’s tenure as a Sixer every year I would hear, “Iverson has never played with anyone” and “Give Iverson another scorer and you’ll see him win.” Alright, well he’s surrounded with legitimate players now in Denver and now what? His team stinks. They got embarrassed in the first round of the playoffs by the [...]

The Flyers are riding a scorching hot goaltender right now in Marty Biron. His glove is catching everything. His poke checks are timely. And he is entering Pat Burrell elite status. Indeed, he is “completely awesome.”
Heading into the third period last night, the Flyers led 3-0 and it seemed they only needed to kill twenty [...]

The Ant Commandos announced that they are releasing a PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3 adapter that is 100 percent compatibly with all game controllers, claiming you can use your PS2 guitars with both Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3.
At $19.99, it’s cheaper than buying a new guitar for either game, and it works!
If you [...]

ZeniMax Media Inc., the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, announced Mnday that it has begun direct publishing operations in Asia with the establishment of its Tokyo-based subsidiary, ZeniMax Asia K.K. ZeniMax Asia will be publishing titles throughout Asian territories under the Bethesda Softworks brand.
“This office will publish games in Japan from Bethesda — Star Trek: [...]

Anheuser Busch squeezes Bud Light Lime onto package store shelves nationwide on Tuesday.
We got our hands on some.
Skepticism reigned when I passed the twist-off bottles around the table at the weekly poker game, with looks of “what’s this stuff?”
Surprise followed.
“This is pretty good!” “Wow … not what I was expecting.” “Not bad.”
Even MadeHandPoker.com’s Mark Scalia [...]

Dear EarthTalk: How is wind power faring in the U.S. now? Is more of it coming on line and becoming a larger percent of the grid? And what about some of the highly publicized efforts to build wind farms, such as in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Has that been approved? – Paul [...]

You still prolly can’t use the same damn guitars on PS3 though…

American Idol Season 6 finalist Phil Stacey will release his self-titled debut CD Tuesday on Lyric Street Records. [...]

Every NFL Draft will have a fair share of movement with picks and such, but there was a lot of hype in 2008 about current players being shuffled about. Well, it really hasn’t happened. Maybe we can take a look at each case and find out why:
-Jason Taylor, DE, Dolphins: Dolphins owner Wayne [...]

The NFL Draft will be going all weekend and so will Off The Record (for the most part). Join us here at 3pm today as the NFL Draft kicks off.
Don’t watch the Draft without guidance! How will you know whether or not Mort and Berman are full of it again? What will the Dolphins do [...]

This month, an article in Variety, solidified a geek’s worst nightmare. The well-known and beloved “Ghost In the Shell” series will be made into a 3D live action movie. At the helm will be Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, and be written by Jamie Moss, of “Street Kings” notoriety.
Ghost In the Shell franchise follows an elite [...]

There is more talk these days about the new emergence of a pro football league called the United National Football League. Don’t be too quick to pass judgment, I think this league has a shot to work. I am a football junkie and I will watch just about anything and everything football. But, I did [...]

EA Sports confirmed that Brett Favre will be on the cover of “Madden XX” — Madden NFL 2009, the 20th anniversary of the football video game franchise.

OCALA, Fla. (US Department of Justice) — U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges sentenced Wesley Trent Snipes to three years imprisonment Thursday for charges of failing to file income tax returns. 
Snipes was found guilty by a jury on February 1.  Eddie Ray Kahn, of Sorrento, Florida, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and Douglas P. Rosile, [...]

American history has its heroes. Washington. Lincoln. King.

Murrow.

If you don’t understand how important journalism is in a society, you need only read a biography of Edward R. Murrow and see what he did during World War II and then during the American anti-communism years.

Murrow was born 100 years ago Friday.

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