Some interesting stories on your Wednesday, May 28, 2008:

Intertainment’s Itibiti Begins Tests With Pro Sports - voice enabled social network meets sports; this will be interesting to see how it works once it comes out of testing.

Fanball Launches Pick’em 64 Superstar Baseball Tournament Contest - It’s a fantasy-based head-to-head competition featuring the 64 best players […]

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Here are some stories of interest for today, May 15, 2008:

Fantasy Sports Ventures Adds Baseball HQ To Web Holdings - FSV seems well on its way to becoming “a one-stop shopping center for marketers looking to connect to the estimated 15 million fantasy-sports players in the U.S..”

Anna Kournikova and SportsMates, Inc. Relaunch Kournikova.com - Who […]

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Here are some stories of interest for April 25, 2008:

PrepChamps Raises $1.2M to Recruit High School Jocks - We’re really seeing a proliferation of these sites and the money shows they are here to stay.

Play Hard Sports launches casual online sports game company - Company gets $5 million in venture capital and will create casual […]

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Fantasy sports is obsessed with statistics, there is no doubt about that. Take this baseball season for example. Baseball is a statistics-driven sport, and fantasy baseball takes that idea to an even higher level. Any and all baseball stats can be used for the purpose of scoring. From games played, to number of batters thrown […]

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Here are some interesting stories for Monday, April 14, 2008:

First Look Preview: Major League Baseball 2k8 Fantasy All-Stars - Video games are definitely a part of the fantasy sports world.

Math teacher embraces fantasy sports - Yet another teacher embraces fantasy sports as a math teaching tool.

Elevator Pitch: meandmybicycle keeps social networking niche - Introducing a […]

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Late yesterday, Yahoo! and MLB Advanced Media, LP, announced that Yahoo! will be the home of MLB.TV and that both companies will share in the advertising revenue. Details from the press release:
Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) and MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, today announced a three-year video and […]

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Here are some interesting stories for today, Monday, April 7th:

Comcast Bay Area Takes VOD MLB Swing - Bay Area cable company will begin offering San Francisco Giants games on demand.

Online Fantasy and Real Money in Fishing - It looks like this game which we featured in our blog has achieved a large following pretty quickly.

Making […]

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Here are the stories we’re following for you on April 3, 2008:

Fanball Launches The Godfather of Fantasy Sports Blog - Blog of Charlie Wiegert of Fanball, where he discusses the fantasy sports industry, Fanball fantasy sports games and all things fantasy sports.

2K Takes a Radical Approach in their MLB DS Game - a review of […]

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Here are some stories we’re following for you on March 31, 2008:

A team of your own - If you’ve never played fantasy baseball before here’s a nice little primer including some web resources for getting started.

Goodell could get another tool to defend sport - The NFL is fed up with “Spygate” and player tampering so […]

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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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