Xbox to Stop Making Some Sports Games
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Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game business will lay off 76 workers and stop making some sports games, the company said.
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ESPN is closing down its cell phone company for sports fans after less than a year, planning instead to forge deals with other wireless operators to offer Mobile ESPN's multimedia content, the majority-owned subsidiary of Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN   cable sports channel said on Thursday it will shut down its   Mobile ESPN wireless telephone business operations later this   year and aims to license the brand to existing mobile   providers.
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ABC Sports, which has carried the entire Bowl Championship Series since 1998, withdrew yesterday from talks to retain the full package of games.
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The campaigning is over. Talk of bubble teams and RPIs, quality wins and quality losses can be put away for another year.
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The TV timeout is one of the banes of a sports fan's life. You're at a stadium, the game is rolling along . . . until everything just stops for 1 1/2-2 1/2 minutes.
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Walt Disney Co.'s  ESPN  cable sports channel said on Thursday it will shut down its  Mobile ESPN wireless telephone business operations later this  year and aims to license the brand to existing providers.
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WE&#39;VE ABANDONED the notion that professional basketball games can provide a model of good sportsmanship. We&#39;d settle for NBA games that didn&#39;t celebrate thuggishness.
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(CP) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will announce the cancellation of the 2004-05 season at a news conference Tuesday in New York, following the failure of both sides in the labour dispute to get a deal on paper by his weekend deadline.
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There's a Red Ring of Death joke in here somewhere Microsoft Xbox division chief Peter Moore will be leaving his position in Redmond to join game developer Electronic Arts as president of the EA Sports label.â¦
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Video game maker needs to work on its brand management.
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Microsoft is getting rid of the PlaysForSure brand used to identify digital media devices and services that are compatible with one another, and rolling the requirements into its Certified for Vista program.
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It's all over but the official announcement. The National Hockey League will formally pull the plug on the 2004-05 season tomorrow at 1 p.m. when commissioner Gary Bettman holds a news conference at a Manhattan hotel.
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Audio recordings of this year's pro football playoff games will be available for download. Also:  Verizon and Yahoo team up to provide premium online service.... Electronic Arts strikes deals to corner the sports games market.... and more.
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My Xbox 360 has a blog, and it's starting to get on my nerves.
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The N.B.A. commissioner has concluded that the leagueâs rules on gambling were unrealistic, and has decided to stop punishing referees for minor violations of league rules.
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Blog: The software maker will cover the game console for up to three years for certain hardware failures. Microsoft says it is taking a charge of more than a billion dollars to cover the cost of the move, which followed an investigation into reports of problems