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NBA Live 08 cover athlete candidates
Edit 4/27: Gilbert Arenas revealed as the NBA Live 08 cover athlete. Click here to read the article. With the NCAA Football 08 and Madden NFL 08 cover announcements now out of the way, the next one on the horizon is finding out who will capture the honor of the NBA Live 08 cover. The first step to narrowing down the candidates is eliminate those players who may be considered based on their performace this past season but were previously on the cover of the Live series or currently rep...
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Ask Padre #3: Why does Madden lack the presentation everyone wants?
For years now many fans of the Madden franchise (as well as other EA Sports titles) have felt that the biggest area the game is lacking in is its presentation. This especially came about after NFL 2K5 had the ESPN presentation that so many enjoyed. When EA Sports bought the ESPN license, many fans assumed that it meant they had the same ideas in mind for Madden. However EA has not utilized the ESPN license in that fashion. So if the fans are asking for that style of presentation, why hasn't E...
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Vince Young: Vindicated
Here is another video I put together to celebrate the announcement of Titans QB Vince Young as the Madden NFL 08 cover athlete. ...
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Vince Young: The Madden Contender
I went ahead and put together a video commemorating the selection of Tennessee Titans QB Vince Young to the cover of Madden NFL 08. ...
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Release dates for NCAA Football 08 and Madden 08 official
Amidst all the recent cover news for Madden came the offical word on the release date. Madden NFL 08 will make its way into stores on Tuesday August 14th. NCAA Football 08 has also settled on a date and will be coming out on Tuesday July 17th. That leaves four weeks seperating the releases. Last year the two games came out five weeks apart. NCAA Football releases on the same week as it did last year, however Madden will be one week earlier....
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Another chance to win
With the sooner than expected announcement of the Madden NFL 08 cover athlete, the contest previously being run to win the faceplate ended without a successful guess of Vince Young. So now we'll give it another shot. To qualify simply sign up for the site's newsletter which can be found in the sidebar. For details on the newsletter read this post. Anyone on the list by Thursday April 26th will be eligible. Once that date is reached, one person from the list will be randomly selected to re...
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The ridiculous article of the day goes to…
This guy, Keith Claverie of the Louisiana State University paper. In his article he touches upon the topic of race as it pertains to the Madden cover. He astutely points out that no white player has ever been the cover athlete for the Madden franchise. I wonder how long it took him to find that out on Wikipedia. The article takes an unexpected turn when he starts to infer what that means and goes as far as to use the popular belief in the "cover curse" as a motive behind who EA chooses. Belo...
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LaDainian Tomlinson was EA’s first choice for the Madden 08 cover
CNBC's Darren Rovell reports that Chargers RB LaDainian Tomlinson received the intial offer from EA Sports to appear on the cover of Madden NFL 08. Multiple industry sources have told me that Tomlinson, in fact, was asked of his interest, was presented with an offer, and told Electronic Arts he was not interested. Tomlinson's turning down of Electronic Arts, we're told, doesn't have much to do with the highly publicized curse, which has been attributed to the recent misfortune of Michael Vi...
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