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Fantasy Sports 2.0

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Some interesting stories we’re following for you today:

Full Tilt offers New WSOP Fantasy League - New fantasy poker league where first prize is a trip to the World Series of Poker in 2009!
Athletes, Coaches Offer Tips, Videos For Kids On Sports Web Site - Another entrant into the burgeoning field of prep sport […]

Some interesting stories on Tuesday, June 10, 2008:

NBCSports.com Partners With AirPlay to Deliver Live Interactive Game for U.S. Open - You can predict the action at the U.S. Open this year through this interactive game.

Stats aren’t for sale - Some more post-analysis on the Supreme Court case.

MLB draft on ESPN shows promise - A review […]

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 […]

It’s about time. In a move surely to blunt the competitive edge owned by Yahoo! and ESPN, CBS Sports has announced that it has launched a beta site which provides fantasy sports information and news. The great thing about it is that it’s free and open to all. You do not have to have fantasy […]

Here are some stories we’re following for you on Thursday, May 29, 2008:

NFL Rookies Under the Spotlight - Event brings NFL rookies to Los Angeles, for a trading card photo shoot.

RotoHog.com Names Michael Stark New CTO - Seems like the fantasy sports league site is making some moves to bolster it’s management team.

Ubisoft to release […]

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