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As promised, it's time for bold predictions made with swagger, cojones, and not the slightest tinge of fear.

Our resident, makes-"Baseball Tonight"-promos-working-for-ESPN-up-in-Bristol, namedrop-worthy ace, J. Couch, goes in. I, too, go in. You won't guess our Super Bowl picks.


LISTEN.

This blog is not about sports, granted. But ATG used to write these previews during college and we think you'd agree the NFL is infinitely more interesting than Kid Cudi.

More importantly, hip-hop, over rivaling genres, is woven with American sports into a two-way, perfectly symbiotic establishment. Michael Phelps shares his affinity for Lil Wayne during his Chinese medal bonanza, then he introduces a Weezy performance at an awards show, then Lil Wayne writes a song about Phelps.

Rappers praise. Athletes listen. Most involved with either love the other and lines are crossed.

There's the justification. Also, I need to switch gears and stop writing about Jay-Z.

Moreover, if you're like the minds behind ATG, you're burning for kickoff extra hard right now. Maybe it's the way things ended last year for Cowboys fans, the brimming excitement behind extra-compelling preseason storylines, the lack of faith in baseball's modern era, the lack of American hegemony in soccer, the fact golf is more interesting when golf balls are neon colored and putts avoid windmills and dinosaurs, or that football provides the most thrilling competitive action available on my off-brand HD TV, but I'm fucking jacked.

Smell the glove here.

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or 2nd Christmas for gamer nerds (like yours truly), is going on all this week, which means the 'net will be going nuts with all kinds of mouth-watering news about the sorts of (non-porn) things 15-35 year old males everywhere are secretly obsessed with.

The mad scientists at Xbox have wrought a freaky future that promises to consume you, Rockstar's rebels are saying "Yes, homo," and the above video represents a virtual wet dream for "hip" gamers everywhere. Plus, if you haven't heard, Jay-Z and Eminem are involved.

If you're interested, keep the tube on G4, or go here, here or here.