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Browns QB Derek Anderson will replace New England’s Tom Brady and Cleveland TE Kellen Winslow will sub for San Diego’s Antonio Gates on the AFC’s roster for the Pro Bowl. Patriots WR Randy Moss, has also decided to skip the Feb. 10 game.

Dick Vermeil, who coached the St. Louis Rams to their first Super Bowl championship in 2000, doubts dirty tricks prevented the franchise from winning it all again under Mike Martz in 2002.

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This week’s question is so simple I’m surprised I haven’t asked it before.

My question this week is, “What is your favorite video game of all time?”

It’s surprising just how often I get asked this question (all the freaking time), but yet I never seem to have an answer. I like so many games for so many reasons that I find it difficult to narrow down my answer to any one game.

Back in college I loved, and still love, playing Tetris, but yet I wouldn’t call it my favorite game of all time (but it’s still “the perfect game”). And when arcades ruled the world I must have poured thousands of quarters into Dragon’s Lair, but yet again I wouldn’t call it my favorite game of all time (although close). And when I was a kid I used to love playing a crazy Atari 2600 game called DragonStomper, but once again I wouldn’t call it my favorite game of all time (although this guy from Forbes did).

But when push comes to shove I would have to say my “favorite game of all time” would be No One Lives Forever: The Operative. This first-person-shooter was a bizarre game that mixed so many genres and play-styles that it’s no surprise that this game had a hard time finding an audience (much like the fantastic Psychonauts).

Mixing first-person-shooting, first-person-sneaking, colorful graphics, British ’60s spy humor, clever A.I., psychedelic music, innovative weapons, fantastic level design, original mission structure, amazing voiceovers, and the best dialog writing … ever, NOLF is a constant surprise from beginning to end.

Perhaps that’s why it’s my favorite game of all time, not only does NOLF contain dozens of gameplay elements that you rarely/never see but it somehow manages to combine them into a nearly perfect package. Oh yes, and it’s perhaps the funniest game of all time without even trying. Again, best dialog writing ever!

If you haven’t given this game a try I would strongly recommend you do. Sure the graphics aren’t quite as good as Crysis (to say the least), but the gameplay is so strong you won’t care. Just play up to the mission “Unexpected Turbulence” … trust me, that mission alone is better than most games.

What about you? What is your favorite game of all time?

President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts. But Democrats said that his forecast was based on flawed math.

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Sure, we’ve seen DS bots before, but some youngsters in France have taken the whole control issue to the “next level.” Apparently, six engineering students decided to pull a fast one on a Pekee Robot (an open, modular, Roomba-like bot) which was collecting dust, and mainline DS controls into its tiny brain. The end result is a multi-use control rig run based entirely on Nintendo’s portable console, offering wireless command of the bot with the D-pad, touchscreen, motion sensors, and stylus strokes, as well as a target mode modeled after Super Mario 64 DS, and voice commands via the system’s mic. You can watch the video after the break to see the little guy in action, but you might want to avert your gaze when he becomes self-aware, determines humans are inefficient, and goes on a kill-crazy rampage.

[Via DS Fanboy]

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Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Bob Knight stepped down Monday as head the Red Raiders head coach, school officials confirmed. Last year, Knight became the all-time winningest Division I coach when he hit 880 victories.