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A Retrospective into Sports Games with Licensed Soundtracks, Part 1: NBA Street Homecourt

A Retrospective into Sports Games with Licensed Soundtracks, Part 1: NBA Street Homecourt

Let me be clear: Nobody who has ever played NBA Street Homecourt on purpose is a winner,and the wheel I used that randomly selected it as the first game I play in this journey is playing a cruel joke. I didn’t like NBA Street Vol. 3. I didn’

Remembering some games: MVP 06

Remembering some games: MVP 06

You know what game was kind of awesome? MVP Baseball 2006. Not the one with MLB players and Manny Ramirez on the cover. I mean the janky, weird, analog stick-based monstrosity EA came up with when they lost the MLB license and shifted, albeit briefly, to making college baseball games.

Finishing a Naomi Klein book before attending a legislator's press event was a mistake

The first words out of my state senator’s mouth were “funny things happen in an election year,” an empty platitude used to explain away the complete, utter bullshit that happens at the national level whenever Republicans don’t get their way. This senator, who goes unnamed mostly to protect

Andre Drummond me_irl'd too close to the sun

I’m assuming Andre Drummond’s thought process went something like “this is gonna be so cool. Craig’s gonna lob that shit up there and I’m gonna throw it down. We’ll be in the highlights for a decade.” And then Torrey didn’t get out of the

AEW had to engage at some point

AEW had to engage at some point

Adam Copeland addressed an elephant in the room Wednesday night when he addressed the crowd to open the show, something that has a lot of people who don’t watch AEW or pay attention to wrestling outside of WWE very upset. “I want to talk about positives, and if you’

I spent how much streaming sports this year!?

I spent how much streaming sports this year!?

Let’s see. $50 for NBA League Pass. $11 for the NFL Redzone package on Youtube TV. $150 for MLB.tv. At least $100 on wrestling PPVs, and $60 if we’re counting getting together with friends to watch the UFC PPVs. Oh, and there’s all the subscriptions to

Surprise! Gambling is a problem! Who could've guessed?

Surprise! Gambling is a problem! Who could've guessed?

I never know if the heavy-handed gambling injection into sports is as obvious a problem to everyone else as it is to me, but the last week has answered that question for me. Defector’s Ray Ratto said it best: “Baseball has a gambling problem, even if Shohei Ohtani doesn’