As the month of February begins Cheap Jerseys From China , as the Super Bowl completes the football season, college basketball gains more and more attention within sports media. There are only a few more weeks of regular season action before the conference tournaments begin, so every game is getting a boost in importance as the colleges struggle for the best positioning in the standings. Here are a few of the West Cost Conference teams and how they're looking heading into the stretch run of the season. If you're a fan of the Cinderellas listed here, you might want to check out StubHub to see if there are any NCAA basketball tickets to their end-of-season home games.
Gonzaga
It's hard not to mention Gonzaga here, because clearly they've been the class of the WCC for a long time. However, they've pretty much completely shed the label of "mid-major" by now, so let's try to focus on some of the WCC schools that might get in when they win the WCC Tournament in March.
St. Mary's
St. Mary's is an obvious pick, as they're ranked No. 22 in the February 1 AP Top 25 Poll. St. Mary's has only three losses this season, one to Gonzaga on the road, and one to the upstart Portland Pilots on the road as well. They also lost to UTEP early in the season, but other than that they've solid resume, albeit incomplete, as their only win of any importance came over San Diego State in mid December. They also beat Oregon, but then, is there a non-Pac-10 team that hasn't this year? The problem with St. Mary's is that they haven't been tested, and so they're looking unsteady. St. Mary's schedule is a cake walk, excluding rematches with Gonzaga and Portland, so the Gaels ought to secure an at-large bid even if they can't overcome Gonzaga in the Tourney. The teams that a betting man might want to look at are San Diego and Portland.
Video game sales have been disappointing for some time. The main cause for slow-moving sales has been the high price points for video game consoles (>$200) combined with consumers cutting back on discretionary purchases. In addition, those consumers that are still actively buying video games are playing their favorite games longer than in previous years.
As a result, the earnings estimates for video game stocks haven't been moving in the coreect direction. However, companies in the video game industry are in a position to modify that trend and deliver upside surprises in the near future. Getting into these stocks before the analysts start raising estimates could deliver decent returns.
Software Sales Have Bottomed
While software sales in June were down 15% year-over-year, sales climbed 14% from May. May sales rose 4% from April.
What's more, hardware sales are on fire. Console makers have dramatically cut prices on the Xbox 360 Cheap NFL Jerseys , Playstation 3 and Wii. Combined console sales increased by 54% year-over-year in June to nearly 1.2 million units. The price cuts will hurt the console makers' profit margins, but the owners of those new 1.2 million video game consoles will be buying games for their new systems.
That's good news for the software side of the business, which saves its best games for the second half of the year. For video games, the unofficial holiday season kicks off with the August release of Madden NFL 11. There are several other titles that will be popular with gamers. These titles include Halo:Reach, Gears of War 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Online Play
Games like Madden, Halo and Call of Duty have become so popular that today's gamers continue to play those games for hundreds of hours past what was expected by the game developers. The longer game lifespan comes from the ability to play these games online with other gamers. Online play goes beyond the storyline written for these games. The game developers have a provided a virtual play area for gamers that want to team up with their friends and try to defeat other teams in various warfare scenarios or play a football game against a human opponent.
Online play is extremely popular, but it can damage the sales of new games. It is also essentially free. Video game developers haven't done a lot to monetize online play. Sure, Call of Duty has offered additional maps for a charge, and the sports games are allowing advertising in their virtual stadiums. I think that is only a start. In my view, these online playgrounds will soon begin to charge a fee to play their online versions and begin to allow even more advertising. When the video game developers finally begin to charge for their online offerings, profit margins will expand well above current expectations.
New Technology
Ever since the Wii came out, both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) have worked on their own technology that allows gamers to use body motion to play games. This year those plans are hitting the market. Gamers got a preview of Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's Move at E3. Both companies plan to roll out their motion-controlled devices in the fall of 2010.
The last time we saw the Atlanta Falcons in the ESPN Power Rankings, they were hovering somewhere near the bottom.But the post-draft rankings ow how much respect folks had for what the Falcons have plied this offseason. They made the biggest jump of any team in the league, moving up 12 spots from No. 26 to No. 14. The Falcons are the only team in the top 15 with a losing record last season (4-12).Team owner Arthur Blank expressed firm belief in his team making a worst-to-first turnaround in '14. To do so, the Falcons beefed up both the offensive and defensive lines with the additions of nose tkle Paul Soliai, defensive end Tyson Jkson, guard Jon Asamoah, rookie offensive tkle Jake Matthews and rookie defensive end Ra'Shede Hageman. That's more than 1,500 pounds added up front.Although the Falcons will attempt to establi more offensive balance, particularly with rookie running bk Devonta Freeman expected to contribute, they still will rely hea.
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