NCAA '08: Recruiting Article from IGN

I would post the article on here, but stupid IGN won't let me host images on Blogger, and I don't have enough readers (read: I can't be bothered) to download then upload them myself. Link.

NCAA '08: Next-Gen Dynasty Walkthrough and Team Ratings

Firstly, another video, this time from Gamespot: Link (Gamespot doesn't let you embed videos for some reason.)

Thanks to gschwendt, a user at the ncaastrategies.com forum, Utopia, we now know the team ratings for some of the teams in NCAA Football '08! (Air Force through to San Diego State). In his words:

I just posted a Gamespot dynasty walk through and as part of that, they went through the team selection screen... it scrolls really fast, but I pulled it into a video editing program and looked at it frame by frame to come up with these. Enjoy.

And here are the ratings: Link (the thing wouldn't format right on here for some reason.)

Even More NCAA '08 Dynasty Info

From the below recruiting video, we now know that the Top 25 contains the following:

#1 USC (38)
#2 Michigan (22)
#3 LSU (1)
#4 Florida
#5 Texas
#6 West Virginia
#7 Wisconsin
#8 Oklahoma
#9 Virginia Tech
#10 Arkansas

#14 Nebraska
#15 Tennessee
#16 Cal
#17 Penn State
#18 Georgia
#19 UCLA
#20 Rutgers
#21 Florida State

More NCAA '08 Dynasty Info

More info, this time for the next-gen.

NCAA Football '08: Current-Gen Dynasty Video

Seeing as the only NCAA Football game I can play is on the Xbox, and all I play is dynasty, this is an extremely welcome video to see.

Lloyd Carr wants me to play for Michigan

Lloyd Carr, coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team, recently travelled to Australia to watch some crappy rugby team. Who cares about that. The important thing was something he said...

One of my goals is to get an Australian kid to Michigan. I will tell you this, there is no doubt there are a few kids here who could play American football.

Lloyd. Call me.

Bill Simmons, dead at however old he is

The Celtics get the #5 pick in the NBA Draft.

I sent an email to Simmons when I found out:

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I can't wait to see what he writes on E!SPN tomorrow.

Oh, and visit Awful Announcing. I'm trying to get added to their 'Friends of AA" list, so I'm posting a link to them too. It, along with Kissing Suzy Kolber, are the only blogs I read every day.

and... NEW!!! WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION...

Edge won the World Heavyweight Title on Smackdown this week after cashing in his Money in the Bank (which he won from Mr. Kennedy on Raw), and here's video from someone who was at the SD tapings.

I marked out huge for Edge winning.

ON THIS DAY

I SEE CLEARLY

We are the champions... my friend...

Australia has won their third straight Cricket World Cup, beating Sri Lanka in the West Indies overnight by 53 runs, in a game marred by rain.

Adam Gilchrist lived up to his billing as the most dangerous batsman in the one-day game with a record 149 as Australia won an unprecedented third straight ICC CWC final on Saturday.

Australia triumphed by 53 runs over Sri Lanka on the Duckworth/Lewis method at Kensington Oval in a game ruined as a spectacle by the weather.

Gilchrist's innings, the highest in a final surpassing the 140 not out made by Australia captain Ricky Ponting against India in Johannesburg four years ago, was the centerpiece of the champions' 281 for four.

But the game ended in confusion with Australia thinking the final was finished due to bad light after 33 overs of the Sri Lankan innings, in a match reduced by rain to 38 a side, only for play to resume in pitch darkness on a ground without floodlights.

Well done, Aussies. Men kissing each other aside, I'm proud of you. The tournament may have gone on for too long, but at least we won.

Cri... cket?

Not that anyone reading would care about this, but Australia has made the final of the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies. The Aussies will play Sri Lanka, after defeating South Africa (who was #1 in the world 7 weeks ago for some reason) in the semis. We're the favourites, I presume, but it's going to be a tough one.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

OY OY OY!

Escort Mode in Halo 3?

x3ar23 over at GameTrailers analysed the Halo 3 Vidoc and found some interesting things, including a menu screen for setting up a multiplayer game which stated the game type as 'Escort'. Does this mean we'll have some sort of protect-one-person game in Halo 3? Who knows, but it's certainly ripe for speculation.

Thank God I live in America... wait

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-02-22T195822Z_01_L22432925_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-EGYPT-BLOGGER.XML

An egyptian blogger was sentenced to four years in prison due to posts on his blog which insulted both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student, was convicted for eight different postings he made to his blog.

I don't have much else to say about this, other than thank God I don't live in Egypt. Because if I did, I'd get arrested for thanking God on my blog.

Haw Haw!

The ABA... what the hell is the ABA? The Acolyte Beer-Drinking Agency? Anyways, the ABA is introducing a new franchise next season, located in Syracuse (because we know how well New York basketball teams play) with the nickname, "the Bullies." Of course, this annoys some people:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_fe_st/bko_syracuse_bullies

People who run anti-bullying programs are crying foul over the Bullies name. They say when children attend the games, they'll get the wrong idea that bullies are cool... the director of one Syracuse group, Jenna's Foundation for Non-Violence, says the team name goes against everything anti-bullying educators are trying to get across to kids.

Shut up. Just, shut up. Everyone's been bullied. Having a team in the ABA - not the NBA, the ABA - nicknamed the Bullies is not going to make people bully people. Do you go around starting fires due to the Miami Heat? Flooding places due to the Los Angeles Lakers? Rampaging through china stores due to the Chicago Bulls?

Didn't think so.

In other news, the world is round...

One of the good things about living in a different time zone to all the other blogs:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2727325

Barry Bonds failed an amphetamines test last season, and apparently blamed it on a teammate.

Backstabbing bastard. (Alliteration is fun!)

Does this put his home run chase in jeopardy? To be honest, I don't give a damn, but I presume some of you do. Post in the comments if you do care. (Please... please post in the comments. I need attention. I'm an attention whore.)