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The good news is that EA has said a patch is in the works and looks to be coming in mid-August. The details are very vague at the moment, but major flaws like the play action bug will be fixed. They are going to make changes to recruiting and progression which is going to be huge assuming it fixes most people’s primary gripes.

This game is already really solid and the right tweaks could make it the best college football game ever in my opinion.

It’s so sad that the White don’t even have someone in the top 50. Could be a rough couple of years coming up.

(via Bill Simmons)

We checked out the Oscar winning movie, The Reader the other night. Kate Winslet finally got her Oscar for this one.

• I didn’t really know what this movie was about before I saw it
• It moves pretty slow and there really aren’t any characters other than the main two
• Call me naive but I didn’t really see why Winslet was so great
• There’s a lot of nudity in this movie
• Definitely not a movie I would watch a 2nd time
• Could have been a lot better with more story and less dramatic extension of scenes

My growing love for Jason Bateman continued with this comedy where Bateman owns a company that makes different kinds of extracts. Kristen Wiig plays his wife who no longer gets intimate with him. Ben Affleck plays his best friend and Mila Kunis plays a con artist he wants to hook up with.

• I didn’t know from the previews Kunis was a con artist and had ulterior motives.
• JK Simmons is solid and funny as Bateman’s #2 who can’t remember anyone’s name.
• Affleck’s drug talk is hilarious. I bet he had fun playing this role.
• The story is pretty bizarre and takes a little while to get where it’s going.
• There are funny parts but it’s not non-stop laughs.
• OK movie, but don’t go out of your way for it.

I had heard of some of these but some were just crazy to me. Interesting list though.

I just recently watched the 30 for 30 documentary about Allen Iverson and it made me think of his famous press conference when a reporter asked him about practice. Iverson is noticeably annoyed and says the word “practice” like 20 times.

The HBO heir apparent to The Sopranos is coming September 19th.

The defense continues to rule the plays of the week. TWO interceptions returned for touchdowns.

I was exposed to Alan Sepinwall via Bill Simmons’ BS Report podcast but I really enjoy his reviews. Everything he said about “June 17 1994″ and “The Two Escobars” hits the right spot. Both of these docs were excellent additions to the 30 for 30 series.

After a bye in week 4, the defense again makes the play of the week. This time it was the defense intercepting an errant option pitch and returning it for a touchdown.