Raymond Felton Takes It to the Basket with EA's NCAA March Madness 06; Former Member of National Champion North Carolina Tar Heels Signs with EA SPORTS.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Electronic Arts (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ERTS ERTS Electronic Arts, Inc. (stock symbol) ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (US NASA) ERTS Embedded Real Time Systems ERTS Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ) announced today that Raymond Felton Raymond Bernard Felton Jr. (born June 26, 1984 in Marion, South Carolina) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. , point guard for the 2005 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association (R) Division I Men's Basketball Champion, North Carolina Tar Heels The North Carolina Tar Heels are the athletic teams for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ("UNC"). The name Tar Heel is also often used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina, the Tar Heel State. , will serve as cover athlete and spokesman for NCAA(R) March Madness(R) 06, scheduled to be released this fall under the EA SPORTS(TM) brand. Featuring an even deeper playbook that covers both ends of the court, NCAA March Madness 06 delivers the ultimate strategic basketball experience. Players can dominate rivals with an authentic brand of defense and push the ball on offense with an enhanced Floor General Playcalling system that features more sets than ever before. With the all-new EA SPORTS Lockdown Lockdown A specified period when an employee of a public company is barred from selling - and occasionally buying - their company's stock. Notes: These types of equity transaction restrictions can be imposed by securities regulators or underwriting firms if a company has Stick, defense creates offense by allowing players to pressure the ball, force turnovers and harass opponents on the court. "Joining the EA SPORTS team is a great way to cap off my college career," Felton said. "Growing up I played EA SPORTS games all the time and to now be the spokesman for NCAA March Madness 06 is incredible." Felton, 20, played three seasons at North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and helped lead the Tar Heels to a 33-4 record in 2004-05 and the school's fourth NCAA national championship. The 6-foot-1 point guard was named the 2005 Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard Award winner. The award recognizes the best point guard in all of college basketball, with candidates considered from all three NCAA Divisions. Felton was also a 2004-05 First-Team All-ACC selection, and he helped direct a UNC (Universal Naming Convention) A standard for identifying servers, printers and other resources in a network, which originated in the Unix community. A UNC path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. team that led the nation in scoring. "This year's game is all about forcing turnovers and pushing the ball up the floor to create fast break offense," said ESPN's Dick Vitale, one of the voices of NCAA March Madness 06. "There was no player in college basketball last year who could get the ball up the court faster and use defense to create offense better than Raymond Felton. Raymond is one of my favorite point guards of all time. He is creative and innovative with the rock in his hands. He makes basketball music and is the perfect cover athlete for NCAA March Madness 06. His leadership and basketball skills played a vital role in North Carolina cutting the nets down and winning the National Championship." NCAA March Madness 06 is in development at EA Canada in Vancouver, B.C., and will be available on the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system and Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft, this fall. Screenshots of NCAA March Madness 06 can be found at http://info.ea.com. About Electronic Arts Electronic Arts (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA(TM), EA SPORTS BIG(TM) and POGO(TM). In fiscal 2005, EA posted revenues of $3.1 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com. 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