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 […]

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It might be April on the calendar, but the NCAA Tournament proved to be a boon for sites about and related to March Madness. According to Compete.com, the two main college basketball destinations, NCAAsports.com and CBS Sportsline (home of the popular live streaming March Madness on Demand) both saw a traffic increase of over 1000% […]

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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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Some interesting news stories for Monday, March 24, 2008:

ESPN 10th Anniversary Issue: Fantasy Sports Are Fun - an interesting visual for use in the ESPN cover story.

MMAFightSpace.com Offers a Free Contact Network for the Fighting Community - social network for MMA fight fans and aspiring MMA fighters.

Nike the #6 Most Innovative Company in the […]

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As reported by Techcrunch, users of the popular CBS Sports/Facebook application that allows picks of NCAA basketball tournament brackets is coming under fire for not working properly. For instance, the brackets on Facebook were showing that Texas A&M had lost to BYU, when in fact the opposite occurred, Texas A&M won that game. This was […]

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Here are some interesting links from around the web for March 20th:

What Happens When a Video Game Gets a Player’s Race Wrong? - Gary Glover, is portrayed in MLB 2K8 as a black man, while in real life, he is white - can he sue?

MLB.com IPO: You Can Just “Strike Out” The Idea - It […]

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Here are some news stories of interest for today, March 13th:

Dunkin’ Donuts, Yahoo Team Up To Create Social Network Offering News and Sports - Get your news, sports, and coffee all at the same time!

MaxxAthlete Raises $3 Million for Youth Sports Web Network - High school social networks are definitely on the rise.

CBS Opens […]

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Are you a college student who likes to play fantasy sports? Then tread carefully, because the NCAA has a rule in place that bars student-athletes from wagering on games that provide the winner of such wagers a prize of any sort. This includes fantasy leagues where the season-ending winner (such as for football) wins money […]

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Fantasy college basketball hasn’t quite hit the mainstream yet, because the structure of college basketball itself conflicts with the current infrastructure of fantasy sports leagues.  The folks at Profantasysports.com wrote an interesting article called, “The state of fantasy college basketball,” overviewing solutions for three main problems every fantasy college basketball league has to face:
Problem #1: Too […]

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In a move that was much needed for college basketball, the NCAA rules committee approved moving the 3-point line back by a foot. Hopefully this will be the first in a string of major decisions that the NCAA makes to improve college sports.
Here’s an absurd idea: a playoff system in college football instead of the […]

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