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  • The Adidas Jo’bulani will be used in the FIFA World Cup final

    The Adidas Jo’bulani will be used in the FIFA World Cup final

    You're already familiar with the Adidas Jabulani, the ball that will be used during the FIFA World Cup this year. It's the roundest ball ever created—impressive—and hopefully Messi will score many goals with it. Well, now say hello to the Jo'bulani, the ball that will be used during the final game of the tournament. It seems to be a palette swap of the Jabulani, with gold paint in place of the Jabulani's green-black.

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  • Messi: You know you’re good when people compare you to a PlayStation!

    Messi: You know you’re good when people compare you to a PlayStation!

    How do you know when you're a great athlete? Oh, I don't know, maybe when the top-tier manager of the opposing team calls you a PlayStation! Like, you're so good it's almost as if someone goes into Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer or EA Sports' FIFA, creates a player, than gives said player 12 out of 10 in all the key stats: speed, attack, technical skill, etc. Leo Messi is like a PlayStation.

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  • More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    More 3D broadcasts are sweeping across Europe. The next countries up are Belgium and Poland. They follow the UK and Germany—oh, and the U.S.

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  • You don’t want to see sports in 3D

    You don’t want to see sports in 3D

    ESPN plans to launch a 3D channel in time for this year’s World Cup. This is the downside. Not even Newcastle deserves that.

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  • World’s first Twitter party? Ron and Fez Super Bowl Twitter party this Sunday (and you can win knissors!)

    World’s first Twitter party? Ron and Fez Super Bowl Twitter party this Sunday (and you can win knissors!)

    This may be a first: a Twitter Super Bowl party! Sirius XM's Ron and Fez is having some sort of Twitter party celebrating The Big Game. Trivia, prizes, virtual booze, Chris Stanley passed out at a speakeasy in Long Island City—what more could you want? Oh, that's not enough for you? Then how about a pair of knissors signed by East Side Dave McDonald, whom I interviewed last summer?

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  • Fans to choose next Madden Curse victim

    Fans to choose next Madden Curse victim

    If I were Jared Allen, Drew Brees, or Reggie Wayne, I’d run screaming from Doritos and EA Sports. Whether you believe in the Madden Curse or not, the fact remains that just about every player that’s appeared on the cover of one of EA Sports’ Madden games has suffered a serious injury or seen his once-dominant playing ability severely decline. So for Madden NFL 11, Doritos and EA have teamed up to let football fans “log on to www.doritoschangethegame.com to vote daily for one of three nominees for the Madden NFL 11 cover.” The nominees, of course, being Jared Allen, Drew Brees, and Reggie Wayne.

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  • Video: Castrol machine kicks soccer ball 200+ km/h, makes Cristiano Ronaldo jealous

    Video: Castrol machine kicks soccer ball 200+ km/h, makes Cristiano Ronaldo jealous

    It was established at some point that Crisitano Ronaldo, the Portuguese international who gets red cards for Real Madrid, can kick a soccer ball at around 130 km/h. People keep track of this for some reason. This here robot… thing can kick a soccer ball at more than 200 km/h. Somewhere, Mr. Ronaldo is quietly [...]

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  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 knocks FIFA 10 off its little perch, becomes top selling game in Europe

    Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 knocks FIFA 10 off its little perch, becomes top selling game in Europe

    Believe it or not, but FIFA 10 isn't the only soccer game around. In fact, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 just came out in Europe, and was the top selling game there last week. Not the top selling sports game, but the top selling game overall. Yeah, it's big.

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  • Around 500,000 people watch England-Ukraine online (because that was the only way to watch it)

    Around 500,000 people watch England-Ukraine online (because that was the only way to watch it)

    England lost to Ukraine yesterday, thus sullying Fabio Capello's 100 percent World Cup qualifying campaign record. While I understand that CrunchGear is quite popular in England—we get so much fan mail from Stoke!—I also understand that man of our American readers have no idea what I'm talking about, much less do they care. Au contraire, mes amis, for there is something that might interest you: the result of the online-only broadcast experiment. A toast, then, to the 500,000 or so people who watched the game.

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  • Congratulations, FIFA 10: You’re the fastest selling sports game of all time

    Congratulations, FIFA 10: You’re the fastest selling sports game of all time

    My fellow Americans! I just wanted to let you know that, yes, there are other countries in the world (WHAT?!), and none of them give a damn about the Madden franchise. EA just revealed that FIFA 10 (which I haven't played, but that's OK; I hear it's good) is the fastest selling sports game of all time! So says a fancy e-mail we just received. Olé-lé, olá-lá, ser del Barça és el millor que hi ha!

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  • With Setanta gone, England turns to Internet to broadcast away games

    With Setanta gone, England turns to Internet to broadcast away games

    Once again, the Internet has saved the day. As some of you may know, Setanta, a sports broadcaster, recently went out of business in the UK. The unfortunate thing is that Setanta held the rights to England (football/soccer) away games. England play the Ukraine, in Kiev, next week, in a World Cup qualifier, so that leaves English fans without a way to watch the game. (England have already qualified, so it's not really a huge deal.) What do do?!

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  • Flumotion adds DVR-like ability to pause live streams for Champions League games

    Flumotion adds DVR-like ability to pause live streams for Champions League games

    Matchday Two of the UEFA Champions League begins tomorrow. You probably already know this, because, really, who doesn't love the Champions League? Exactly. But unless you have DirecTV (here in the U.S.), you're stuck with whatever games are on the Fox networks. These games primarily feature the English teams, because, I guess, the idea is that “Americans speak English, so they probably like English teams.” Maybe it's a ratings thing, I don't know. (There's a point to all of this, believe me.) There's a company based out of Barcelona called Flumotion that has developed a new, maybe even better, way to watch the Champions League online. If you're at all familiar with a DVR, then you're familiar with the company's new setup.

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  • Review: Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360)

    Review: Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360)

    With the NFL season now in full swing, you may be looking for ways to pass the time between Tuesday morning and Sunday afternoon (or Thursdays – stupid Thursday night games screwing up Fantasy and Pick’em leagues the world over). Sure, you could converse with loved ones, do some much needed yardwork, or – gasp!!! [...]

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  • The early days of John Madden Football

    The early days of John Madden Football

    MaddenGreat article over at Edge Online for anyone interested in the early days of EA's John Madden Football franchise. Did you know that one of the first versions of the game was initially 7-on-7 due to memory limitations? Madden himself put the kibosh on that one right away, saying, "What’s this seven-on-seven? This isn’t football. If my name’s going to be on something it’s got to be 11-on-11."

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  • Gigantic video screen in new Cowboys Stadium to cause problems all season long

    Gigantic video screen in new Cowboys Stadium to cause problems all season long

    screenWhen Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones set out to build the biggest, most elaborate, most expensive stadium in all the land, a ridiculously large video screen was, of course, on the list of things to purchase. The problem, however, is that the screen is so big and hangs so low to the ground -- just 90 feet above the playing surface -- that punts are going to be hitting the bottom of it all... season... long.

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