‘NCAA Football 12’ like reality TV, minus cheating

About the time that Florida State’s Chief Osceola rides out on the stallion, chucks the flaming spear into the ground and sends The Doak into a chopping frenzy, you realize what “NCAA Football 12’’ game designer Ben Haumiller meant about “making the game more realistic this year.’’

“The authenticity of it,’’ Haumiller said in a phone interview, “that’s the biggest thing for us every year. How it looks. More importantly, how it feels.’’

MLB’s All-Star format under scrutiny because of no-shows

PHOENIX — If Yankees great Derek Jeter needed a note excusing him from the All-Star Game tonight at Chase Field, White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko was willing to write it.

Kevin Baxter: It's time for baseball to put the fun back in its All-Star game - (LA Times)

Trying to turn an exhibition into serious competition, with home-field advantage in the World Series awarded to the winning league, hasn't worked. The solution: Re-energize by de-emphasizing.