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A group of young fans played Madden 24 against three Houston Texans at NRG Stadium. This unique opportunity was won at the Houston Texans Foundation's Season Premiere gala, supporting the foundation's mission of empowering communities across Houston.

In-game billboards are now adertising job vacancies for a real trucking company, including training

Madden players can now enjoy cross-play, though it does come with a few caveats.

Y -- madden, we are both 41. every person i knew was always playing madden. he was somebody that pehe associated. he essentially was the brand of the nfl and he had a staying power. how did he have the staying power? was it the madden bust, the you a theauthenticity? >> i think the authenticity is the thing. it wins out above all else. but as a broadcaster, you got to provide for lack of a better term a service to the people listening to you. so madden stopped being in the background, which is w...

Young white guy not qualified to be a head coach. they argue the nfl should focus on let candidates more deserving of the job. after learning that he was biracial, they were forced to update the story days later. so good for mike for not playing the identity politics game but heres an idea, hire him and let him prove hes qualified or not. not saying coaching football is an easy job but ive seen 12-year-olds who are amazing at playing madden. and chances are theres always going to be someone more...

Young white guy not qualified to be a head coach. they argue the nfl should focus on let candidates more deserving of the job. after learning that he was biracial, they were forced to update the story days later. so good for mike for not playing the identity politics game but heres an idea, hire him and let him prove hes qualified or not. not saying coaching football is an easy job but ive seen 12-year-olds who are amazing at playing madden. and chances are theres always going to be someone more...

Ainsley: yesterday, im at the gem and i see the espy awards up there on the screen. jim kelly i followed his story he got the jimmy v. award his family was on stage two daughters. talked about his faith. drew brees was up there had his sons with him. really cool to see his beautiful family sitting there and supporting his dad. also another coach that really stuck out to us because he has got an amazing story. his name is rob menendez, 30 years old and a coach in california. and he got an award. ...

And we actually see people live on tv, and we all just meet up and just talk about whats going to happen at this tournament. whos going to win? but it does get intense, like, because we want to win, but people, like, they get mad whenever something bad hatchppe but its not like theyre going to get a gun and come in here and shoot. were all just friends and having fun playing madden. >> wow. is this going to affect your decision to compete in further tournaments? >> i mean, i love madden. i love ...

Shots on the livestream. we dont know if it continued after that point because the livestream then ended. but to be clear, fredricka, these kinds of events, these e-sports, theyre oftentimes livestreamed on the web. thats how were able to see to some extent what happened in the room. in the video, which we may be able to show later, we dont actually see the shooting, we only hear it. unfortunately, like i said, at least a dozen shots ring out. you hear people starting to scream. you hear people ...

This, to participate, but they go to a game bar like this? >> yeah, this is something that brings people together. its a sort of community sense at these locations. esports is a growing part of the media business where people come together to play games, some amateur, some professional, so they compete in tournaments. at some point, there can be huge amounts of money on the line. this was not a national tournament though. what were seeing in jacksonville today was an early stage, local tournamen...