An interesting article from early last year totaling the combined financial losses for the 360 and PS3 hardware at close to 8 billion dollars can be found here

Thus isnt abnormal for Sony or Microsoft. The PS3's production cost was rumored to be well above its original market price and features to that system were cut to create a more friendly sticker price.

the 3ds disagrees with you

I remember some stories prior to the season about LeBron dropping a significant amount of weight during the offseason. If that was true and remains so now, any chance the changes in his play might somehow be related to that?

Isn't he still defining mediocre, albeit with a microphone?

Voting takes place prior to the playoffs starting, so a Super Bowl victory wouldn't have mattered when Taylor was voted MVP. They were 14-2 for the season though, so the team's record and the fact that they made the playoffs do factor in Taylor's favor.

Or they could just compare him to the veteran QB he played against today, whose stats were barely above his. It was a bad showing by both though, no doubt there.

A screencap from a reddit post claims to show the extent some people took gem farming in just a few hours

that isn't the sort of exploit going on here, so I wouldn't worry. There are reddit posts that describe se ways of exploiting card packs to get gems in massive quantities. You spent actual money to obtain the gems you made, I assume. From the (very brief) perusal I did on reddit, that's not at all what these people…

They should probably look for Marvin Harrison instead.

Its the 'new clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.'

I would actually be curious to hear what Rice has to say about whether the NFL or the Ravens saw the video in question. If it were in anyone's best interest to come out and state definitively that either had seen this version of the video, I'd imagine it would be his. There were meetings with all parties involved and…

Birch's weasely answers in the interview with Mike and Mike back at the end of July intentionally mask the fact in advance. They clearly knew that this would eventually become an issue.

This is what I've been saying! Stephen Hill, Champ Bailey, and Ryan Succop, all distractions. Why else would espn.com have them in their recently headlines about recently cut nfl players if they weren't as big a distraction as Michael Same is?