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Fantasy Sports 2.0

Web 2.0 + Fantasy Sports = Putting the ‘Fan’ back into Fantasy Sports.

Maximum Fantasy Sports announces its Fantasy Football Leagues, No-Cost Survivor, Confidence and Pick ‘em Pools - worth a look, free leagues and other fantasy games.

Facebook Continues Flirting with Gambling - first, the NCAA tournament and now the Euro 2008 soccer tourney. Is this a good marriage of social network and predictions or is it setting […]

In a move designed to bring in more traffic to its own website, Sports Illustrated is teaming up with Citizen Sports, Inc. to provide a fantasy football league application to Facebook starting in July. SI has very rudimentary fantasy sports league features as part of their FanNation portion of the site. But SI has lagged […]

Here are some interesting stories for today:

Watercooler’s SN Apps for Fans Backed by $4M - Connecting fan communities through your favorite social networks.

Yahoo Goes Full Steam Ahead With ‘open’ Strategy - Now that their “Open Strategy” has been announced, Yahoo! is moving quickly to establish it.

U.S. sports dispute “white space” airwaves plan - Several major […]

It’s clear with that with the news that Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline are creating open networks allowing developers to create applications that the online sports and fantasy sports world is about to change. A project ahead of the curve appears to be SCORE OS - Fantasy Sports Management System. His team’s goal is to […]

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 […]

I had the pleasure of speaking with and interviewing Fantasy Book Inc’s CEO, Jon Brelig.  Fantasy Book is a startup focused on bringing the fantasy sports league experience to Facebook users.  Their first application is focused on Fantasy Baseball and offers an interface similar to that of Yahoo’s fantasy league offering - which is a […]