Digital Sportspage

Yeah video games are no longer the loss-leaders that drive people to the stores. Now it´s DVDs, which have larger margins so they can play with the prices more on them. But they´re not as discounted as much as they were a couple of years ago, when even new releases were sold cheap on the day after T...

How come Donovan and others haven´t played in Europe yet? <BR> <BR>Does it come only to ability or star power as well in these economically difficult times? <BR> <BR>Donovan was informally trying out as placekicker for the 49ers. He said offhand that he might try out next year and some people think ...

Oh and I don´t particularly feel bad about an athlete having to cut his career short. He´s not exactly that young, he´s accomplished a lot and again, he doesn´t have to worry about money, which can´t always be said for other pro athletes who have to retire in his early ´30s. <BR> <BR>Yes the Twiligh...

But is kidney failure fatal? I thought the worst might be that he lives with dialysis, tied to a machine. <BR> <BR>I have a feeling money could make a difference, not necessarily to jump ahead of the donor line. But maybe he has a relative willing to donate a kidney? Especially with monetary inducem...

Don´t feel too sad. He´s got a ton of money, still relatively young and he probably gets a lot of money from the Nets.

The Gamespot review says that the PC version has motion blur turned off by default while it´s defaulted to on in the console versions.
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<BR>The framerates of the console versions apparently stutter because of the motion blur.
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<BR>Has anyone tried it with motion blur on with the PC version?

Who´s playing multiplayer online? <BR> <BR>Can you voice chat just with members of your own team or do you have to broadcast to everyone? <BR> <BR>I think it would be cool if they gave you some way to toggle between the two, so that you can talk strategy just with teammates and then broadcast other ...

I thought I pretty much outlined the reasons, Badgun. <BR> <BR>I like football, particularly online football, more than anything else. Madden made sense because of it´s huge following online -- I´d been playing the PC version for years so I knew that the PS2 version would have tons of players. <BR> ...

Ultimately, it´s a subjective choice on whether the game selection and the online features/performance of either system is appealing enough for each individual. <BR> <BR>Right now, I get more than enough use between all the Madden and ESPN NFL leagues that I´m in. I play about a half dozen online le...

I´m not sure if they´re trying to really drive traffic to eBay from Half tho. Don´t they make more on commissions, especially a used game, on Half than on eBay?
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PK, I was just offering an opinion that haven´t EA games on XBL alone would not swing the relative fortunes of the PS2 and the Xbox. There are tens of millions more users of the PS2 than the Xbox. Moreover, EA games sell way more on the PS2 than the Xbox. The difference in sales between the two plat...

I´m guessing he was advised by his agents. They better have some deals lined up for him because if the people quoted in the story are right, there really isn´t much more money that he could expect to get. <BR> <BR>They said card makers would be reluctant to give him a million on a card. And no way a...

No XBL.
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Here´s some background on his decision: <BR> <BR>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/21/BUG6L3632B22.DTL <BR> <BR>Most of the money he made was from cards and the most valuable cards -- rookie cards -- are already out there. <BR> <BR>Interesting that a lot of coaches who do not have...

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The commercials I see has logos for all the systems, including the PC if the game has a PC port. <BR> <BR>EA not only has to get permission to display those logos, they usually get co-op dollars from the system vendors. In other words, they pitch in to pay for the air time. <BR> <BR>Remember how hea...

Wade for Miami has looked good.
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<BR>Darko, being the second pick of the draft and the supposed second-coming of Dirk, is barely getting any playing time at all.
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<BR>Brown doesn´t like rookies and the Pistons expect to do well so they won´t let him learn the NBA game on their dime.

I think you can just go to EFNet and create a channel there or come up with a name everyone agrees to and join it.

You just type /ignore siam or whatever the name of the person in the chat room whom you want to ignore.
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<BR>As easy as that.

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If there are enough Xbox games to keep you busy through the end of the year, I´d wait and see if there might be a price cut after the Holidays (guess the rumored price cut just before Thanksgiving have pretty much fizzled). <BR> <BR>By then, you might have saved enough to get the PS2 in addition to ...

Only appeal of an MP3 player would be to have all your music in one place. I would get tired of swapping out MP3 files to rotate my music as I gave up on making tapes a long time ago. So it would have to be one of those hard-disk based players for me. Or, as I said, if you can access your whole coll...

You can put it in a CD and get a little better interest rate than the standard bank accounts but you wouldn´t be able to draw any money or the term of the CD (6 months and up, the longer the higher the rates). <BR> <BR>If the market gets hot, you probably want some of your money to be in it. With al...

I agree as well. It´s marginally easier here than at SR to switch to another forum. It would take one click if you select it in the popup and click OK, as opposed to loading the index page at SR and then clicking Online forum there. <BR> <BR>But the best way is to just have it on one page and there ...

What about thread notification by email? <BR> <BR>I noticed that if you create the topic, you have option to set email notification but if you just read or post to a topic, the option isn´t available. <BR> <BR>And even when you do get the email, when you click on the link, it doesn´t show the update...