NBC Sports offers $100,000 with its National Fantasy Football Championship - It’s quite telling when a major network is backing a fantasy football championship - the draft is August 30th.

L.T. campaigns to be fantasy No. 1 - Gotta love it, if athletes are pimping themselves in fantasy leagues, that shows how fantasy has become reality.

Videogames […]

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Future US buys news aggregator sites Ballhype and Showhype to beef up online portfolio - $3 million for the two sites - not bad at all and it shows that digg-clones for niche markets are viable.

UFC Former Heavyweight Champ Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski Launches a Social Network - You can check out the former […]

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A Meeting of Fantasy’s Sharpest Minds - A review of the FSTA conference that occurred last week.
Atomic Moguls announces dozens of new fantasy games to be released in coming sports seasons - Lots of new games planned from this company, including college football, and English soccer.

Michael Phelps’ wave takes swimming to new heights - It’s […]

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ATHLINKED Launches a Professional and Social Networking Platform Focused on the Alumni Athlete - Now there’s a niche social network for alumni athletes!

Top 10 US Social-Network and Blog-Site Rankings Issued for May - AOL Fanhouse still in the top ten blogs. Nice.

Dallas Cowboys Score with Social Media from Pluck - The Cowboys are going Web […]

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Here are some stories we’re following for you on Thursday, May 29, 2008:

NFL Rookies Under the Spotlight - Event brings NFL rookies to Los Angeles, for a trading card photo shoot.

RotoHog.com Names Michael Stark New CTO - Seems like the fantasy sports league site is making some moves to bolster it’s management team.

Ubisoft to release […]

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Here’s a sampling of some stories we’re following for you on Monday, May 19, 2008:
LiveAutograph.com authenticates celebrity autographs for you - Want an autograph of Hulk Hogan and other stars? This sites’ service includes an autograph and a personalized message that is authenticated; you know that for sure since the signing is videotaped!
ESPN Plays Catch […]

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Here are stories of interest for today, April 30, 2008:

Let Em Play - ESPN The Magazine’s cover story on aspiring athletes who have prosthetic limbs.

Is Yahoo`s Social Platform Too Little, Too Late? - A different perspective on a story we’ve been covering here at Fantasy Sports 2.0; this story questions the timing of the move […]

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Here are some stories we’re following on Thursday, April 10th:

Loop’d Network Launches Official Fan Community for Supercross Champion Jeremy McGrath - Wow, even Supercross champions are getting their own social networks now.

Museum shows off sport technology - time to head to the UK now that there’s a museum dedicated to the latest in sports technology.

Wimbledon […]

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In a testament to the growing popularity and staying power of sports social networks, YardBarker.com today received $6 million in its second round of funding, according to TechCrunch. For the uninitiated, Yardbarker is an online sports community where users can upload links (like Digg) and videos and fans can read blogs written by athletes (Donovan […]

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Happy Friday, everyone! Here are some interesting news stories for today:

Takkle.com launches rankings for high school boys and girls - The site now features top 100 rankings of boys and girls lacrosse and baseball players.

CraveOnline acquires two basketball niche sites - They’ve now acquired HoopsVibe and StreetBallTalk - growing the b-ball empire, it appears.

What’s so […]

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