Three more luscious action-packed Colin McRae: Dirt screens have been released, courtesy of Codemasters. The developers promises us a real turning point in the history of Colin McRae racing games -- an incarnation for the next-gen consoles that support online mode, 100 pilots apart from multiplayer mode, adrenaline-packed events, and obviously, more dirt. The game, as we've mentioned before, comes out in Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms.

Some of the hottest events unfold in Rally Raids, Rally Cross, and Hill Climb. Rally Raids are extreme race events which see you powering through massive sand dunes against huge trucks and super-powered offroaders. Rally Cross events lets you blaze over dirt tracks and gravelled roads, all the while struggling to stop your car sliding off the road. And if you're in for demanding courses that leave spectacular dirt and collision marks on your car, you're likely to fall for the Hill Climb event. It includes the infamous Colorado Rockies course of the Pikes Peak rally, which contains over 150 high-speed turns around the edges of bloody great mountains.

Colin McRae: Dirt will come smashing through our next-gen consoles by the spring-summer of 2007.

Take it from Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings, an iPod can help improve your game. The Rockies' video staff has downloaded footage of every Florida Marlin's hitter into his iPod video, for him to figure out how to pitch to them.

"It's a good way to refresh yourself on how you got guys out," Jennings said. "It's an amazing concept."

Although videos have long been used in the league, to help players study their opponents moves, some people are still skeptics for this kind of technology.

New York Mets manager Willie Randolph doesn't have a problem with a player analyzing video, but it wouldn't have been for him. Randolph, a former All-Star, preferred extra batting practice to extra film sessions.

"I think it's overrated personally, but that's just me," Randolph said. "I'm from a different school."

So far the Rockies, have downloaded video clips into the iPods of 14 of their players and when on the road he compiles DVDs of their play and loads video onto the iPods when they return home.

Florida pitcher Dontrelle Willis, sums it up when he said, "Anything you can do to help yourself get ready for (games) is a good idea."