One of the worst games available for the Wii.
Rip Hamilton to play tonight
May 30, 2008 Leave a Comment
Richard Hamilton of the Detroit Pistons is ready to play tonight in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics. Detroit needs to win tonight to force a Game 7 back in Boston. After shooting with the team, Hamilton said he had discomfort in his right elbow, but would play through it. [...]
Replay coming to Major League Baseball
May 30, 2008 1 Comment
Rich Rieker, who serves as a liaison between MLB and its umpires, said in a recent chat on the Houston Chronicle’s website that replay is coming to baseball. “Replay is coming,” Rieker said. “If done properly we have an opportunity to set the gold standard in replay, learning from pros and cons from other sports. [...]
Eagles extend general manager
May 30, 2008 Leave a Comment
The Eagles announced today that they have signed general manager Tom Heckert to a contract extension, which will keep him in town through 2011. The Eagles also promoted Howie Roseman to V.P. of player personnel. “I feel we have strengthened our personnel staff today by extending Tom’s contract and by promoting Howie Roseman,” said someone [...]
Letter could lead to Williams’ murderer
May 30, 2008 1 Comment
Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot dead on New Year’s Day 2007. No one has ever been charged with his murder, but the Rocky Mountain News has obtained a letter by a gang member that seems to admit he fired the shots that killed Williams that night. The letter is signed “Willie D. Clark.” [...]
FIFA Street 3
May 30, 2008 Leave a Comment
Arcade soccer returns for another try at capturing the American audience.
Ice hockey at Wrigley
May 29, 2008 Leave a Comment
According to Comcast SportsNet, the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings are scheduled to play in next year’s NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Yep, outdoor hockey. Last year, a league-record 71,217 fans showed up at Ralph Wilson Stadium to watch the Sabres beat the Penguins 2-1 in a snowy outdoor contest. Chicago’s Soldier Field [...]
Popovich extended by Spurs
May 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has signed a contract extension that will keep him on the Spurs bench thru 2010-2011. Spurs chairman Peter Holt told reporters last week that a handshake agreement was in place. “If we never had a signed deal that would have been fine,” Holt said Tuesday. “That’s the way the [...]
Former MLB pitcher killed by lightning
May 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
Former MLB pitcher Geremi Gonzalez was killed on a Venezuelan beach Sunday at the age of 33. He won 11 games for the Cubs in 1997 and was well thought of around the league. “The Chicago Cubs are very saddened today to learn of Geremi Gonzalez’s sudden passing,” Cubs GM John Hendry said. “Geremi began [...]
NFL continues efforts to clean up league
May 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
Alex Marvez of Foxsports.com says that starting June 1, NFL teams will be fined when their players have run-ins with the law. Every team, however, has a clean slate and will only be fined for infractions that occur after June 1. “The policy on club fines is being applied going forward (prospectively), not retroactively,” NFL [...]
Is your ISP messing with your P2P — and lying to you about it?
May 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
Germany’s Max Planck Institute has recently done testing that illustrates practices that cable Internet users have suspected for some time now — major US Cable ISPs, Comcast and Cox, are blocking peer-to-peer network patterns. The Institute, spurred on by a CNET report showing that Comcast defended its blocking of BitTorrent P2P traffic to the FCC [...]
EarthTalk: China’s olympics? Are we losing winter?
May 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
Dear EarthTalk: The 2008 Summer Olympics in China are drawing a lot of attention right now for political reasons. I’ve heard, though, that one ray of light is China’s effort to make the event as green as possible. What’s going on in that regard? — Josh Rogers, Concord, NH It’s true that China is using [...]
Download Doomsday and the addons
May 24, 2008 3 Comments
Doomsday and projects like jDoom have kept the game going well into the 21st century, with support for high resolution graphics and textures, OpenGL, new character models, particle effects, high-quality audio and a whole host of hacks, tweaks, mods and fixes for Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Hexen and Heretic. It also brings 16-player multiplayer [...]