18 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Football, News, Social Media, Technology, Video Games
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 […]
16 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Madden, News, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
EA Sports Releases Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker - A few days early too! But still, the main detractor is that leagues cannot do their draft online using their Xbox360.
FantasyFootballNerd.com Opens Site to Developers - We mentioned their comparison site last week, which uses a meta-search engine. Now, they are announcing the release of a […]
01 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, ESPN, Fantasy Sports, News, Soccer, Video Games, press releases
Fantasy Sports Startup Lures Scott Engel away from ESPN.com - You’ve known him as one of the main experts for fantasy football on ESPN.com.
CBS closes CNET Networks acquisition - CBS is definitely expanding and has now added the popular tech and gadget review site to it’s stable.
EA Sports Press Release Confirms 250 Changes In FIFA […]
25 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Soccer, Social Media, Video Games
Soccer, er, football social network called OleOle showing promise - 2 million unique visitors a month ain’t bad.
5 years later, Sprint pleased with NASCAR deal - The folks at Sprint NEXTEL are pleased with the partnership with NASCAR.
EA Sports puts Spurs’ Parker on its cover - not only will he appear on the cover of […]
18 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Football, Madden, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports
Well, they finally did it. Electronic Arts has integrated it’s popular Madden football video game franchise with a fantasy football league and information website. It makes a lot of sense, after all. When you have the wildly popular following that Madden has garnered, you have ready audience of fanatic football fans, and yes, likely fantasy […]
17 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, Video Games
Here are some interesting stories for Tuesday, June 17, 2008:
EA SPORTS Fantasy Football launches new website with football applications - Seems like an exciting way to bring fantasy football to the convergence of online and video game applications!
Followup: NBC Olympics and Fanball Team Up for Olympic Quick Pick - Here’s some additional information on what […]
16 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, MLB, Media, News, Olympics, Technology
Happy Monday! Here are some interesting stories for Monday, June 16, 2008:
NBC Sports and Fanball partnering to create fantasy game for Summer Olympics - It will exciting to see what this ends up looking like.
Fantasy Football and EA Madden NFL ‘09 to be integrated - You’ll be able to utilize EA’s Fantasy Football product and […]
04 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Media, News, Social Media, Video Games, Yahoo!, press releases
Interesting stories we’re following for you on Wednesday, June 4, 2008:
Electronic Arts buys ThreeSF for undisclosed sum - The video game company makes an interesting move and acquires a social network, we’ll find out more about this deal soon.
NBA Finals By the Numbers - These numbers show the extent of the reach basketball has in […]
07 May
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Blogs, Business, EA, Fantasy Sports, Legal, News, Social Media, Video Games
Some interesting stories we’re following on Wednesday, May 8th:
Horse racing fantasy game in development - Montana is one of four states that allows fantasy betting on horse racing, demonstrating the growing gulf between state and federal legislation on fantasy sports betting.
The Elephants in the Room - Interesting story that states that traditional sports writers […]
09 Apr
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, ESPN, Golf, MMA, Media, News, Soccer, Social Media, Streaming Games, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
Here are some interesting news stories today, Wednesday, April 9th:
ImpreMedia Powers New MySpace Latino Sports Community - social networking on MySpace meets the Latino community, the focus being the sport of soccer.
NeuLion Packs a Punch with The IFL - The up-and-coming MMA organization IFL now will have its own network home.
Epic and EA Announce […]