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New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina has decided to retire. Mussina, who turns 40 next month, spent the last eight seasons with the Yankees after pitching for the Baltimore Orioles for the first 10 years of his career. His 270 wins rank second among all active right-handers, behind only Greg Maddux. In the final start of his career, he pitched six shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox to finish off the first 20-win season of his career.
The NFL is giving Adam “Pacman” Jones another chance.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Wednesday the suspended cornerback has been reinstated by league commissioner Roger Goodell, but he must miss two more games this Sunday and the following game on Thanksgiving. He’ll be back Dec. 7 at Pittsburgh.
Well we can all thank Mr. Deep Pockets himself (Jerry Jones) for this one!
The 11/18/2008 edition of ECW on Sci Fi did a 1.15 cable rating. Last week’s edition got a 1.2 rating. It’s about time they beat TNA again!
World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of ECW Superstar Armando Estrada as of Nov. 18, 2008. WWE wishes him the best in all future endeavors.
Now he’ll have plenty of time to smoke them cuban cigars he’s always sporting.
Monday Night Raw drew a final 2.9 cable rating, which is down from last week’s 3.1 number. The first hour drew a 2.91 and the second hour drew a 2.82. That’s the second week in a row that hour two of Raw has seen a drop from hour one.
Earlier this year, the producer of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead filed suit against Capcom, claiming the zombies-in-a-mall action game Dead Rising ripped off the classic 1979 horror film. However, once the complaint got before a judge, the producer’s case fell apart like the rotting, fleshy husks at the still-beating heart of the dispute.
Last month, United States Magistrate Judge Richard Seeborg granted Capcom’s motion to dismiss the suit, saying that The MKR Group (the producer’s company) “has not identified any similarity between Dead Rising and any protected element of Dawn of the Dead. Rather, the few similarities MKR has alleged are driven by the wholly unprotectable concept of humans battling zombies in a mall during a zombie outbreak.”
If tomorrow, when the New Xbox Experience launches, you can’t get certain movies from Netflix to stream on your Xbox 360, don’t blame Microsoft; blame Sony.
Steve Swasey, Netflix’s Director of Corporate Communications, confirmed this rumor with the following PR-friendly explanation: Today, titles regularly come in and out of license and there is a natural ebb and flow to what we have on license at any given point in time. In the case of Xbox 360, a few hundred titles are temporarily unavailable to be streamed via the Xbox game console.
What the Netflix spokesperson didn’t say is that there’s a common pattern with these “temporarily unavailable” movies; they all seem to be films from Sony’s subsidiaries (Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, etc.). Although the Netflix spokesman won’t confirm such pattern, users who got the NXE earlier claim so. An additional comment from the Netflix representative suggests this is indeed a problem exclusive to the Xbox 360 platform:
Those titles are still available to be watched on subscribers’ computers and on TVs via other partner devices, and we hope they’ll be licensed for Xbox 360 shortly.
Time will tell if Sony is indeed blocking its films from streaming on the Xbox 360, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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Fox Sports has decided to pull its bid on the next round of television rights for the Bowl Championship Series college football games.
Fox’s four-year deal with the BCS ends after the 2009 season. The Bowl Championship Series says it is close to a deal with ESPN.
“Currently, over 98 million homes receive ESPN,” BCS coordinator John Swofford said in a statement. “With the ever-changing technology and as we look toward January 2011, when the first games in this package will be played, we know that the number of households that receive ESPN will only continue to grow.”
SportsBusiness Daily reported that, according to sources, ESPN bid $125 million per year over four years to get the games, while Fox’s top bid was $100 million per year.