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Hey, loogit, there’s an All-Star Game on. And it sounds as though it’s slightly less boring than pointless spectacles past! I don’t know, I’m at work and can’t watch it. But the uniforms? Ugly!
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For its toping selling Madden NFL franchise, Electronic Art Tiburon typically selects an electrifying player who epitomizes the furious intensity of NFL action, while appealing to average young football fan.
One would think someone like, say, Adrian Peterson would be a natural pick. Well, I’ve got news for you, mister: There are some rumblings that EA Sports is looking toward Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning to grace the latest edition of the game.
If Manning is selected to the cover of the 2009 Madden game Eli would be another quarterback in a long line of past Madden covers including McNabb, Vick, and Culpepper.
Yikes! Some careers those guys turned out to have after that. Good thing Vince Young reversed the Madden Curse this past year with a statistically horrid season that somehow resulted in a playoff appearance.
I’m guessing the squash stick will be the flashy new innovation this year, then.
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Sure, it’s no
conversation about bewbs with Reggie Miller, but stuff like this could actually get me to watch the Sunday morning politics shows. We have but six years to gear up for the Barkley gubernatorial run. Any chance he could run against Nick Saban? Have Dwayne Wade in his cabinet? At least it will assure there will be no trans fat ban in the state.
Conservatives Make Chuck Sick [Brahsome]
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Finally the right man wins the dunk contest. This is what happens when you don’t allow Michael Jordan to be a judge, even if Darryl Dawkins is perhaps his equal in hateration. Howard stole the show in what many are saying was one of the best dunk contests ever, if at least in recent memory.
For all the difficulties that Gerald Green was having getting a decent ball from Rashad McCants, I think it behooves the scientific community to create a dunk contest lobbing machine of some sort. They might sniff that it’s a narrow purpose, but I contend a necessary one.
Meanwhile, Toronto’s Jason Kapono took the 3-point shootout for the second straight year with a record-tying final round score of 25 and I stage yawned for all to see.