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Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of ___MASK69___ , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . John Earl Madden ( born April ___MASK39___ , ___MASK55___ ) is a former American football coach and broadcaster for the National Football League . He won a Super Bowl as head coach of the Oakland Raiders in the American Football Conference of the NFL , and after retiring from coaching became a well - known color commentator for NFL telecasts . In ___MASK61___ , he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career . He is also widely known for the long - running " Madden NFL " video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988 . Madden worked as a color analyst for all four major networks : CBS ( 1979  1993 ), Fox ( 1994  2001 ), ABC ( 2002  2005 ), and NBC ( ___MASK61___  2009 ). The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR ) is an American family - owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto - racing sports events . Bill France Sr . founded the company in ___MASK41___ and his grandson Brian France became its CEO in ___MASK8___ . NASCAR is motorsport ' s preeminent stock - car racing organization . The three largest racing - series sanctioned by this company are the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series , the Xfinity Series , and the Camping World Truck Series . The company also oversees NASCAR Local Racing , the Whelen Modified Tour , the Whelen All - American Series , and the NASCAR iRacing . com Series . NASCAR sanctions over ___MASK60___ , 500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 of the 50 US states as well as in Canada . NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan , the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico , and the Calder Park Thunderdome in Australia . Madden NFL ( known as John Madden Football before ___MASK54___ ) is an American football video game series developed by EA Tiburon for EA Sports . It is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden , a well - known former Super Bowl  winning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator . The series has sold more than 100 million copies , and influenced many players and coaches of the physical sport . Among the game ' s realistic features are sophisticated playbooks and player statistics , and voice commentary that allows players to hear the game as if it were a real TV broadcast . As of ___MASK64___ , the franchise generated over $ ___MASK92___ billion in revenue . Football is a family of team sports that involve , to varying degrees , kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal . Unqualified , the word " football " is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears . Sports commonly called ' football ' in certain places include : association football ( known as soccer in some countries ); gridiron football ( specifically American football or Canadian football ); Australian rules football ; rugby football ( either rugby league or rugby union ); and Gaelic football . These different variations of football are known as football codes . Trip Hawkins ( born December ___MASK15___ , ___MASK93___ ) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts , The 3DO Company , and Digital Chocolate . Gaelic football ( Irish : " Peil Ghaelach "; short name " Peil " or " Caid "), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic , is an Irish team sport . It is played between two teams of ___MASK42___ players on a rectangular grass pitch . The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team ' s goals ( ___MASK2___ points ) or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar above the ground ( ___MASK60___ point ). Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in ___MASK25___ , and becoming common during the 1980s . They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that , for the first time , were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user . These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business , scientific or engineering - oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC , and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability . However , a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers . Their most common uses were playing video games , but they were also regularly used for word processing , doing homework , and programming . Rugby league football , usually called rugby league , is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field . One of the two codes of rugby football , it originated in England in ___MASK73___ as a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players . Its rules gradually changed with the aim of producing a faster , more entertaining game for spectators . Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group , which is engaged in business through its four operating components  electronics ( video games , network services and medical business ), motion pictures , music and financial services . These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world . Sony ' s principal business operations include Sony Corporation , Sony Pictures Entertainment , Sony Interactive Entertainment , Sony Music Entertainment , Sony Mobile ( formerly Sony Ericsson ) and Sony Financial . Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of ___MASK99___ , the fourth - largest television manufacturer in the world , after Samsung Electronics , LG Electronics and TCL . The ( FIFA ; " International Federation of Association Football ") is the international governing body of association football , futsal , and beach soccer . FIFA is responsible for the organisation of football ' s major international tournaments , notably the World Cup which commenced in ___MASK71___ and the Women ' s World Cup which commenced in 1991 . Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . It is played by 250 million players in over ___MASK11___ countries and dependencies , making it the world ' s most popular sport . The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end . The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal . Rugby union , or simply rugby , is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century . One of the two codes of rugby football , it is based on running with the ball in hand . In its most common form , a game is between two teams of ___MASK42___ players using an oval - shaped ball on a rectangular field with H - shaped goalposts on each try line . Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California ' s Bay Area , approximately south of San Francisco , and north of San Jose . Redwood City ' s history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a port for lumber and other goods . The county seat of San Mateo County , it is the home of several technology companies such as Box , Oracle , Evernote , Wealthfront , and Electronic Arts . At the ___MASK27___ census , the city had a population of 76 , 815 . The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port on San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco . Redwood City is the location of the San Mateo County Jail , for both women and men . The Malibu Grand Prix long time landmark was recently demolished along with the city ' s only Mini Golf , Go - Kart , Video Game Arcade , and Batting Cages . Malibu Grand Prix ' s previous location is currently the construction site of a new additional Jail and Inmate housing facility . The city has a motto " Climate Best By Government Test " which is a reference to it being one of the top German scouted scientific climates and the city was one of the locations mapped by them during their testing and data collection . The Hetch Hetchy water pipeline runs through Redwood City and supplies a vast majority of the surrounding area with low grain (+/ ___MASK2___ grains ) rated water . EA Sports ( stylized as EA SPORTS ) is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games . Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts , in which they tried to imitate real - life sports networks by calling themselves the " EA Sports Network " ( EASN ) with pictures or endorsements with real commentators such as John Madden , it soon grew up to become a sub - label on its own , releasing game series such as " NBA Live ", " FIFA ", " NHL ", " Madden NFL ", and " NASCAR ". The best selling EA Sports series is the " FIFA " series with over 100 million units sold . FIFA Manager ( short : FIFAM ) was an association football series of sport management games published by Electronic Arts . The games were developed by the German studio Bright Future GmbH and EA Sports . The game was called Total Club Manager ( short : TCM ) until the name changed to FIFA Manager with the FIFAM 06 . It was announced FIFA Manager ' s last installment was FIFA Manager 14 and that there would be no further editions to the game . Before FIFAM and TCM , EA Sports released FIFA Soccer Manager ( 1997 ) and The FA Premier League Football Manager 99 , 2000 , ___MASK21___ and 2002 , but while the first managed to attract some attention , the latter were released when the managing games market for non - Championship Manager titles was close to non - existent , and after two unsuccessful titles , it was dropped . However , by ___MASK21___ , several employees of German software house Ascaron , who developed the highly popular Anstoss series in the past moved to EA , and the first game , Fussball Manager 2002 , was released in Germany only , as a test for a potential series . It resembled Anstoss 3 , although on a more serious note ( in Anstoss , players could be abducted by aliens , train in Area 51 or use performance - enhancing drugs ) and fewer financial options ( managers developed by German teams often include deep financial options , such as stock and real estate markets ) . The game had positive reception , and a year later Total Club Manager 2003 was released , with Bobby Robson on the cover ( for the second time , after FIFA Soccer Manager ) . One of the key features of Anstoss 3 was the ability to actually play the games after Anstoss Action was released . Although it could be played as a stand - alone game , it only reached the full potential when used with the manager game . This feature , only present on other games with limited geographical distribution , the Spanish PC Fútbol , was included for buyers of both TCM 2004 and FIFA 2004 , which could use the Football Fusion function . Some fans managed to control games in TCM 2003 by hacking the configuration files , but data loss and corruption was frequent . Celtic manager Martin O ' Neill appeared on the cover of TCM 2004 . Criticized by a confusing interface , EA reworked it for TCM 2005 , with a more sleek design . European Champion with former FC Porto and Chelsea manager José Mourinho was selected for the main cover . While the TCM series has been released for Windows , Xbox and PlayStation 2 , the FIFAM series is only available for Windows . The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the game were developed for EA Canada by Budcat Creations . Electronic Arts Inc . ( EA ) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City , California . Founded and incorporated on May ___MASK15___ , 1982 by Trip Hawkins , the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games . As of 2014 , Electronic Arts was the world ' s fourth - largest gaming company by revenue after Tencent , Sony and Microsoft The company sparked controversies over its advertising efforts , and acquisition of other studios .