24 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, ESPN, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, News, press releases
STATS, Inc. expands to the Middle East - This certainly is an expansion by the company in the direction of international sports, including F1 and cricket.
The College Fantasy Editor for Athlon Sports Talks College Fantasy Football - Want to know the distinctions between NFL and College fantasy? Find out here.
2008 Fantasy Football Season Kicks Off […]
23 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, ESPN, Fantasy Sports, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, press releases
Some stories we’re following closely for you on Wednesday, July 23, 2008:
Local sports sites can capitalize if they focus on SEO, per study - Among other findings is that ESPN has one of the 10 most popular video servers on the web.
Sun Microsystems to Provide Technology Platform for NBC’s Online Coverage of the Beijing Olympic […]
22 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Social Media, Technology, press releases
Some of the stories we’re following for you on Tuesday, July 22, 2008:
Ranking the best fantasy football magazines - a review of the best ones for your dollar now that training camps are about to begin.
The Fantasy Football Times.com Elects its Members as Experts - What happens when you combine fantasy football with social networking […]
17 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, News, Social Media, Technology, press releases
Future US buys news aggregator sites Ballhype and Showhype to beef up online portfolio - $3 million for the two sites - not bad at all and it shows that digg-clones for niche markets are viable.
UFC Former Heavyweight Champ Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski Launches a Social Network - You can check out the former […]
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 […]
10 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!, press releases
Announcing Baseball Boss - Game Combines Trading Cards with Fantasy Sports - Interesting concept, we’ll review the site in a separate full post shortly.
Fantasy Sports Industry Grows to a $800 Million Industry With 29.9 Million Players - We previewed this story for you on Tuesday, but here is the press release. Impressive growth indeed.
Yahoo Opens […]
08 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, News, press releases
In a newsletter sent to its members this morning, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association announced that the fantasy sports industry has grown to a staggering 29.9 million people now actively playing in the U.S. and Canada and $800 million spent directly on fantasy sports products. This is based on a survey conducted by the Fantasy […]
03 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, Business, Legal, News, Social Media, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
Fantasy Sports’ Reverse Crossover - Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal
which chronicles how cutting-edge technology used to track baseball stats can help fantasy owners own their competition.
Press Release: Play Hard Sports Announces Beta Sign Up for Its Free to Play Online Football Game - Get in now to lock in your team name […]
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 […]
30 Jun
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Fantasy Sports, News, Social Media, Streaming Games, Technology, press releases
Fantasy Experts are sometimes wrong, but never in doubt - Well, this article brings of the dirty secret of fantasy sports - that your regular fantasy player is probably just as knowledgeable and sometimes moreso than the experts.
Fantasy tips? How about Tipstrs.com? - According to this review, Tipstrs provides how-to’s and tips, including for fantasy […]