NCAA 09 Covers

June 13, 2008 by 5 Comments

First of all, did you know Wal-Mart had a Blog? Not just a blog, but a rather large, multi-authored blog? I sure didn’t.

Anyway, I’ve railed for a long time that EA should offer regional covers for their sports games, but more specifically, for the NCAA 0X series. I don’t mind buying a college football game with Reggie Bush or Jared Zabransky on the cover, but as a Buckeye fan, I’d be much more inclined to get one with Troy Smith or Vernon Gholston on my cover.

Well, this year for NCAA 09, you can do just that. You can “customize” your NCAA cover to fit your fandom. But, it’s exclusively available at Sam’s Club:

Sam’s Club will be the ONLY retailer to offer OFFICIAL EA alternative cover images. What does this mean to you? Well, if you are like me and NOT a Razorback fan (almost illegal here in Arkansas, I still will not to that “wooooo pig” thing), you can put an image from a selection of images on YOUR box front at no additional charge.

It’s a very cool idea, but it looks like it’s being executed poorly. First of all, the example posted at the Check Out blog, with the Lucky Charm Leprechaun, looks like a character model from the game. If they use mascots from the game engine as the cover pictures, that is pretty lame. If they’re not using actual photographs, this is a bad idea. And I know there are licensing agreements and NFL player associations to deal with, but it would be really cool if they worked it out to have a few fan favorites from each team available for covers. That would make it an instant buy.

And for those wondering, here’s my dream cover:

NCAA 09 Cover

(And by “dream cover,” I mean that literally. I dream about buying NCAA 09 with Mount Vernon on the cover. Nightly)

[Cross posted at my other blog, for obvious reasons]

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Technical Issues

June 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Things seem to be borked around these parts at the moment. I’m not sure what is up, but we’ll try to work things as soon as we can.

Update: Things seem to have fixed themselves. Let us know if you’re having any kind of problems.

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Take that, Michigan University!

June 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment

You can take your high US News and World Report rankings, we don’t need ’em! Brian Williams says that, “There is nothing wrong with America that someone from Ohio State can’t fix.”

You know this, man!

Embedded video removed for the time being, it was slowing the page to a halt. Click the Breitbart Link below.

(via Breitbart.tv)

Huge congratulations to the OSU class of 2008. Welcome to the family.

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All Together Now: (Caption This!)

June 4, 2008 by 4 Comments

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“Confiming what we already knew: Michigan fans are a bunch of man-babies” – el Kaiser

You guys can do better than that. Add your captions in the comments.

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Once a Buckeye

May 30, 2008 by 2 Comments

I wanted to highlight a couple articles that have piqued my interested lately.

The first is a little bit old, but it was ESPN’s first mock draft for the NBA that had the Cavaliers somehow ending up with Kosta Koufos (h/t The Sports Diva Magazine). I think Kosta will eventually become a solid NBA performer but he needs to get mean first. He needs to get to the free throw line a little more frequently for a big man. But the Cavs have a need to start developing the next Zydrunas and he could fit that bill nicely. Another part of the article mentioned the possibility of the Bucks wanting to trade Michael Redd away in their efforts to rebuild. I know it’s a long shot and pipe dream, but I would love to see Redd in the Wine and Gold.

One can dream.

The other is about a MotSaG hero, our favorite #10, Troy Smith (h/t The Silver Bullet):

With a big arm and even bigger chip on his shoulder, Smith has outplayed the other quarterbacks during this spring’s minicamps, backing up his claim there is “no doubt” he can go from a fifth-round pick to a starting quarterback in one season.

Everyone in Buckeye Nation wants to see Troy prove all the non-believers wrong. Even if he is a Raven, we are all rooting for him to take over his team and succeed.

The coaching staff, though, has been just as impressed with Smith off the field as on it. He has perfect attendance in the weight room and the classroom.

This is what four years under Jim Tressel will do. When Smith was a freshman, a quote like this would have surprised me. Four years later, not so much.

He proved himself to the team when he showed poise despite being pushed into starting the final two games last season. It seems veterans respond to Smith more than the other quarterbacks.

Looks like the Ravens are starting to see what Buckeye fans saw at the end of the 2004 season and the beginning of 2005. The Buckeyes just played better when Troy came in. It was a noticeable difference in the way the other players responded when he came into the huddle. It was his team and everyone played that way.

So good luck, Troy. Just not when you play the Browns.

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There’s always next …

May 19, 2008 by Leave a Comment

I started a post on Friday during the Cavs/Celtics game, when the Cavs were down, saying how I was actually going to feel relieved if the Cavs lost Game Six. I wouldn’t have to go through the pain and agony of a close Game Seven.

Of course, I’m a fan of a Cleveland team, which means I am doomed to suffer the maximum amount of pain. This fact accounts for the close game, up until the very bitter end, this afternoon. LeBron provided an LeBronian effort, but in the end, it just wasn’t enough.

In the end, I guess I can take a bit of bittersweet solace that Kevin Garnett has proven, yet again, that he can not win the big game. For all his mean-face, chest-thumping bravado, he faded like he always does. And that makes me happy. This was all Paul Pierce. Turns out the “Big Three” is really “Paul Pierce and that really skinny guy who can’t win the big one and that dude who was in that movie with Denzel”. Hopefully we can put talk of “The Big Three” to rest. It isn’t even the “Big Two Featuring Ray Allen“.

So now it’s total boredom for the next three months. Great. I’m going back to GTA IV.

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What we’ve been up to

May 13, 2008 by 2 Comments

I know we have been slacking in the updates department around these parts, but we have legitimate excuses. They come in the form of little 12 cm discs of gaming goodness. To pass the boredom of the off-season, the Monkey and I turn to electronic entertainment to pass the time. Myself, I can’t drag myself away from Grand Theft Auto IV. You might have heard of it.

The Monkey and I also have been getting our Mario Kart Wii on. While it’s no GTA IV, it’s no slouch either.

We’ve also been Twittering away like the good Web 2.0 acolytes we are. Everyone should know what I had for breakfast, that’s my mantra.

If you’re interested in a different side of us bloggers, you can check out our Twitter feeds. You do Twitter, don’t you? Of course you do. How do we know? Lots of reasons. For one, you’re reading this blog. That says a lot about you. It says you’re savvy, you’re handsome/beautiful, and of course, due to your association with the Ohio State University, you’re well educated. So we’re sure you know all about Twitter. You can follow the Monkey here and el Kaiser here.

If you don’t know what Twitter is, let us know. We’ll be more than happy to explain.

We’ll be exploring other Web 2.0 fun stuff as we get closer to the season, but we’ll be going into full blogging mode as soon as we can shake the shackles of the real world. Niko isn’t going to take over Liberty City by himself, you know.

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Witnessing once again

May 13, 2008 by Leave a Comment

LeBron is rising up and, once again, we are witnesses.

Is there anyone less menacing than Kevin Garnett? He does his scary “I’m pumped up!” growl mean face and no one notices. I think when Garnett gets mean, an angel is given its wings and puppies giggle uncontrollably.


Grrrh

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Congrats, Big Guy!

April 26, 2008 by Leave a Comment

All of us (including you, our faithful readers and fellow Gholston man-crushers) at the Men of the Scarlet and Gray congratulate Vernon Gholston on his selection as the 6th pick in the 2008 NFL draft, traveling down the Columbus — East Rutherford pipeline.

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Kids say the darnedst things

April 26, 2008 by Leave a Comment

“Look, daddy, a girl football player”

– My five year old daughter, watching Sports Center with me, watching a bit on Jeremy Shockey with his golden locks flowing out from under his helmet.

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