The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. Another indication of (shocker) Tim Tebow as a cover athlete for NCAA Football 11. He was doing promotional work for EA Sports last week. Reportedly in January he was close to closing a deal. Owen Good at Kotaku posted up a interesting article covering his time in Vegas making bets on NCAA Tournament games based on the results of a sim he ran in NCAA Basketb...

The Line Drive is a weekly collection of news, links, and updates that didn’t necessarily warrant their own postings. I have added renders from UFC 2010 Undisputed in the screenshot gallery for Rashad Evans, Thiago Silva, Brock Lesnar, BJ Penn, and Cain Velasquez. THQ has posted a short blog entry discussing the changes to striking for UFC 2010 Undisputed here. The latest mascot addition to NCAA Football 11 is the TCU 'SuperFrog'. You can see the render in the scre...

A second developer diary video for Backbreaker has been released. This one focuses on, yet again,  Euphoria. There are still three months until release but I'm looking forward to having different subjects touched on such as how the football basics (rules, AI, play calling, ect) are instituted in the game. 2K Sports has released two blogs detailing the new My Player mode broken into two parts. They include new screenshots from the mode. The first posting can be found here with par...

Google Buzz launched last week and its something I've started utilizing for extended discussion beyond the articles that have been posted to the site. Feel free to follow me from my profile page and I will return the favor. As always you can follow me on Twitter for a more frequent stream of news and thoughts. Both will be especially valuable for upcoming live coverage from events including E3 and Comic-Con. If you are into team management and mock drafts make sure to check out the ...