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Fantasy Sports 2.0

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

Thought I’d go over to the excellent resource that is Alexa.com and see which fantasy sports sites are the most visited. The descriptions that follow each entrant is also taken from Alexa. The top ten it listed are as follows:
10. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball - Offers free and paid games, news, stats, player rankings, and […]

A list of where I go to get my fantasy football information, by and large. Both pay and free sites are listed! Feel free to comment and/or add other links that you like to visit.
10. Fanball (www.fanball.com) - this is where I go to check the status of players on Sundays, particularly to see who’s […]

Teens are leading the way in creating and sharing content online. In articles in both the San Jose Mercury News and the Washington Post, the phenomena was studied and explained by a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. These trends have a strong impact on the social web and tells us […]

In yet another indication that fantasy sports is expanding, the Wall Street Journal wrote a story on a new fantasy fishing competition (www.fantasyfishing.com). This new entry comes from the mind (and pocketbook) of Irwin Jacobs, chairman of the professional bass-fishing tournament group FLW Outdoors. The kicker is that he is offering a $1 million […]

In an interesting article I came across today, the authors cite Nielsen/NetRatings’ numbers to show that CBSsports.com got an average of over 9 hits per consumer in the month of November. It further relates that those visitors stay for over an hour on the site per visit. That’s a lot of visits and quality visits […]

I’m just simply amazed by the power of fantasy sports as not just a hobby for millions around the world, but for its ability to bring people with common interests together. In a time of war, such as now, it’s always difficult to talk about the military, whether you agree with the war or not. […]

The Ultimate Tailgate

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Ducks receive $100 million

Seemingly the largest donation in the history of the world, Nike co-founder Phil Knight recently gifted $100 million to the University of Oregon to be used to support their athletic programs now and into the future.
This extraordinary gift will set Oregon athletics on a course toward certain self sufficiency and create the flexibility and financial […]

With the beginning of the NFL football season just a few weeks away, it’s no surprise that the topic of worker productivity and fantasy football is on the front burner again. According to the Indianapolis Business Journal (and home to the Colts, arguably some of the most ardent football fans), 37 million people spend at […]

Is it the next stage in predicting fantasy sports and game results? Accuscore.com certainly thinks so. This site allows you to compare players, forecast your fantasy squad, forecast individual player performance, and also allows you to analyze the probability of a player reaching a particular statistic, e.g. TDs thrown, yardage rushed, etc.
According to its co-founder:
“The […]

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