Thinking of paying for your NCAA 09 rosters or (worse yet) having to type in all those hundreds of names yourself? Forget about it. Thanks to the new EA Locker feature in this year's NCAA Football 09, paying for rosters or spending all those hours entering the names in yourself (as I've done many years.. at least for the SEC) is a thing of the past. Sites like this one are getting prepped for next week's release of the game, and will have names of "trusted" accounts you'll be able to download free (and hopefully accurate) NCAA rosters.
If you aren't familiar with the process, downloading rosters is really simple in NCAA 09. To do so, you simply go to to the online menu, then go to the EA Locker. You'll be presented with a list of gamertags from your friends list from whom you can download any rosters they own. Or you can enter another gamertag of your choosing (Pasta from pastapadre.com is currently hosting his own roster--so his wouldn't be a bad place to start). After you've downloaded your roster file, you'll need to load it up in the game. That's all there is to it.
While I can't personally vouch for the accuracy of any of the rosters you might find out there, it's great news that the days of mailing out memory cards, paying money for the data-entry duties of others, or spending hours pecking out the roster names yourself seem to be behind us.
College Football's Info Blitz
This time of the year is when I start getting antsy for college football. With NCAA Football 09 a week away, I've finally started cracking open the college football magazines I horde each year, looking for clues as to which teams will emerge once the season rolls around. I've already spent some time with Phil Steele's 2008 tome and just bought the Sporting News magazine last night. But there's still Athlon, and ESPN, and several others. What's funny to me is how all of these magazines claim unerring year-on-year accuracy--every one of these rags, it seems, is the most accurate college football magazine in the land.
Which, naturally, can't be the case. So I'm curious: Where do you get your college football information? Do you look at the magazines, pay attention to Web sites, or just go with whatever televised coverage you can find during the dog days of summer? Which sources do you trust, which ones are simply terrible? Let's hear your thoughts...
From the Bleachers: 07/02/08
Last time, the FtB crew brazenly referred to soccer as "evil." This week, they make up for it with discussions of EA Sports' upcoming FIFA 09 and FIFA Manager 09, as well as a recap of Spain's huge victory over Germany in Euro 2008. With Shanker on injured reserve, Aaron and Brian recall their love for Micro League Baseball, Jon Miller talks about EA's 'All Play' games for the Wii, and Fred discusses the achievements in Madden NFL 09 and notifies listeners about a SportsGamer reader who's put his life for sale on the forums. Any bidders? Plus e-mails, phone calls, and more bad sports picks!
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