With real playbooks featured in Madden and constant input by John Madden himself, the 'x's and o's' of football are being taught to the next generation of gridiron greats.
On Sunday, 34-year-old Weisz won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as aid worker Tessa Quayle in TheConstant Gardener, developed from a John Le Carre novel.
He wants to replace the "one and done" system, which requires high-school stars to play for at least one year in college, or in Europe, before they can be drafted into the NBA. The result is that some teams with a constant churn of freshmen, like John Calipari's squad at Kentucky, don't so much have student-athletes pursuing a degree, but guest stars.