When I first heard about EA Games bringing females hockey players to NHL 12, I immediately thought of Jimmy Dugan from ‘A League of Their Own’, “I don’t have ball players, I’ve got girls!” This will be a start of something new to all future sporting games.

The decision to put the female gender in the game comes after a girl wrote a letter to EA, telling them she felt it was unfair. Lexi Peters wrote, “It is unfair to women and girl hockey players around the world, many of them who play and enjoy your game.I have created a character of myself, except I have to be represented by a male and that’s not fun.” When the letter reached the desk of David Littman, NHL12 lead producer, he was fascinated with the idea. “Lexi’s letter was a wake-up call, here’s a growing audience playing our NHL game and we hadn’t done anything to capture them.”

So, after getting NHL’s permision, the choice to use a male OR a female was official. And because she brought this to light, EA even used Lexi Peters likeness as the default character for female. This will definitley be the start of sports games adding females to games such as Madden, MLB, maybe even NBA.

There are now girls in this man’s game

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About Tonight’s show, we have a mish mash of lighthearted news overall. I steered clear of the doom and gloom. Looking for a way to un-acoustify your guitar? Perhaps you wanted to know Look for secrets from your armchair and a google earth install? Or mayhaps you wanted to cheer on your favorite nerd themed sports teams? Well all of those fun little bits as well as a goodly helping of caffeinated bits are yours for the taking.

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The entire city is holding its collective breath right now… So I had to put off doing the show until after the exhale. One tired podcaster with a belly full of coffee gives you an earful of content. I hope you enjoy.

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I Don’t even know where to begin! I was 13 the last time the Phillies Made It! I’d like to let a huge apology ut to my followers on Twitter, If you’re not a sports fa this might have been a bad week for you. I think i’ve been averaging about 40 – 50 tweets per game. Twitter is an unbelievable tool to let fans interact and share something as special as this has been. Listen up for more.

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