I had the same issue. What I discovered while playing around is the ticker doesn't appear if your Xbox (if you have Xbox, don't know about PS3) is set to normal viewing mode. I don't mean it's simply not on screen, I mean it doesn't appear at all, it's gone. It's a widescreen-only feature. You have to set the Xbox to widescreen for it to show up. I have no idea why but apparently EA programmed it that way.