
FantasySportsBusiness.com What makes a new fantasy contest worth checking out? More Ditka.
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Yesteryear Fantasy Sports was announced Tuesday as the title sponsor for the upcoming FSTA conference, presumably as a way of introducing its new concept to the industry.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Kansas Grocer Wins RapidDraft $250K
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Most (all?) of us play fantasy football each year, whether it be with a group of friends, some co-workers or a faceless online community of folks you know only by their message-board handles. Some of us even win some money from time to time.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Another of the "Fidelity Four" (or InFidels) says company sought to "make an example" of them.
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Earlier today we passed along word that Fidelity seems to be trying to amend its public stance about why it recently fired four fantasy football league commissioners.

FantasySportsBusiness.com FSB.com will have exclusive material from a second member of the "Fidelity Four" later today.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Fidelity offers different story, same stink on FF firings
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By now we’ve all read the initial comments from Fidelity spokesman Vin Loporchio, in which he clearly stated that the company dumped four employees for participating in “gambling” by organizing fantasy football leagues. ...

FantasySportsBusiness.com Get your FSWA nominations in by 12/31.
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For any fantasy sports writers out there, the Fantasy Sports Writers Association is taking nominations for 2009 awards up until the end of this month (via this online form).

FantasySportsBusiness.com Workplace productivity is not the issue in the Fidelity case.
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I suppose it’s inevitable that some readers of the “Fidelity fires four over fantasy football” story will skim it and come away thinking a few slackers got canned because they were wasting work resources on a pastime.

FantasySportsBusiness.com In case you missed it, Fidelity stupidly fired four employees for running fantasy leagues. We have the reaction ...
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I would have to assume that the leadership of the Westlake, Texas, Fidelity Investments office is well-versed in financial law. It obviously, however, has never read the UIGEA.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Bloomberg jumps into baseball stats and fantasy
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For most of us on the outside, the central focus of Major League Baseball’s winter meetings tends to be the chatter about potential trades and free-agent signings. From a business standpoint, however, another angle only mildly related to actual players threatens to cool the hot stove.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Matt Hasselbeck prefers Favre over himself in fantasy + other bits ...
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A recent Associated Press story on NFL players’ involvement with fantasy football made the rounds pretty well in the wake of the Maurice Jones-Drew kneeldown that ruined the lives of approximately 40 percent of American males.

FantasySportsBusiness.com FSTA agenda out, and a Web series says it'll be a FF comedy soap opera.
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– The Fantasy Sports Trade Association has announced the agenda for its upcoming winter conference, including a featured appearance from half of the husband-wife creative team behind “The League.”

FantasySportsBusiness.com Mock Draft Central is on the market.
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“Having achieved what I set out to do when I started Mock Draft Central back in 2001, my roles and responsibilities have diminished and I want to take my life and career in a different direction,” Pliml told FSB.com. ...

FantasySportsBusiness.com Well, I was certainly disappointed in the debut of "The League." What about you?
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When the announcement came that FX would be giving us a show that featured fantasy football prominently in its theme, there was plenty of room for excitement and skepticism.

FantasySportsBusiness.com 'The League' debuts on FX Thursday night at 10:30. Here are a couple of reviews of the fantasy football-themed show.
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With FX set to debut its comedy based on a group of buddies tied together by a fantasy football league, we picked out a couple of early reviews. Check back with FSB.com early Friday to see our review of the premiere of “The League,” which will air at 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

FantasySportsBusiness.com Fantasy sites need to take a stronger look at the micro-transaction model, Scott Philp says.
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The whole free-pay quandary is a central issue for anyone trying to make money on the Web, and that couldn’t be more true in any industry than it is in ours.













