Throwing into heavy coverage

For the modern college football fan, the release of EA Sports' NCAA Football video game has become every bit the rite of summer that the day the college football preview magazines hit the stands is.

The 2008 edition of the game (I've never understood why the year in the title never corresponds with the one of the season that the game is based on) is set to be released on July 17, but impatient gamers will be happy to know that several details, including the game's Top 25 and several teams' "impact players," have already been unveiled.

Louisville's ranking of 11 in the game is fairly consistent with its place in the top 25's of the major preseason magazines and media writers. The Cards were sixth in last year's game.

The bad news is that former Cardinals head coach Bobby Petrino has lit off for the NFL, as well as the inevitable headache of trying to turn the Atlanta Falcons' Michael Vick into a quarterback. The good news is star quarterback Brian Br