Posts Tagged ‘blogtalkradio’

Footballguys.com Duo to Hit the Air to Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

If you were to start with ESPN’s NFL Countdown on Sunday and watch to the end of the final game, you’d probably hit about 12 hours of football in a day. Now imagine talking fantasy throughout that span.

The Audible’s Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom will hit the air on BlogTalkRadio’s The Fantasy Sports Channel on Aug. 29 for just that length of time to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis.

The Footballguys.com duo will hit the air at noon Eastern that Saturday and go straight through until midnight with just 30-minute breaks every three hours. (For each of those intermissions, Andrew Garda of The Thundering Blurb will step in.)

The event is designed to draw attention to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and listeners will be able to make donations throughout the broadcast.

“We hope to raise awareness for CF, and we hope to raise quite a bit of money for this great charity,” Lammey told FSB.com. “There isn’t a better time of year than now to bring the fantasy football community together to support something as serious as Cystic Fibrosis.”

The Audible is among the most popular shows on The Fantasy Sports Channel and ranks among the top 90 audio podcasts on iTunes. In addition to fantasy talk from Lammey and Bloom, Lammey says the broadcast will include guest appearances by former Broncos guard and current ESPN analyst Mark Schlereth, ESPN.com NFL reporter Adam Schefter, Yahoo! Sports’ Jason Cole and Scout.com’s Adam Caplan, as well as other Footballguys.com staffers and some others.

The FSC put on a similar event to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation back on March 7, with Paul Greco and Lenny Melnick of FantasyPros911.com leading a 24-hour baseball-themed show.

FSB.com will pass along more info on the event, including the URL for donations, as it becomes available.

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FSB Daily 7/30: Vegas, Fantasy Sports Channel

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

A roundup of recent posts from the FSB News page.

– The Las Vegas Fantasy Football SUPERDRAFT appears to be building momentum for its debut. The new website touts appearances by former WCW Nitro Girl Stacy Keibler and ESPN’s Matthew Berry (we’ll let you decide which one’s prettier) and performances by rapper Flo Rida and George Clinton’s band. Although he’s not mentioned on the homepage, Maurice Jones-Drew appears to be involved somehow.

– The Fantasy Sports Channel on BlogTalkRadio debuts its “Must-Stream Thursday” lineup tonight from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. It will feature shows from WCOFF, Fantasy Guru, RotoExperts (Scott Engel), The Fantasy Football Guys and Footballguys.com’s The Audible.

RapidDraft.com has added Fantasy Phenoms to the ranks of affiliate sites for the debut season.

Send all of your news, job postings, stories and profile ideas to FantasySportsBusiness@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter (FSBcom).

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Deacon Jones on The Fantasy Sports Channel

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

There’s fantasy content, there’s good fantasy content and then there’s chatting with legendary Rams defensive end Deacon Jones.

The headslap artist who terrorized quarterbacks before sacks were even counted joined former NFL lineman Ian Allen and Greg Kellogg on “Inside the Trenches” on BlogTalkRadio’s Fantasy Sports Channel on Tuesday night.

You won’t find fantasy talk, but you’ll get gems such as the toughest offensive lineman Jones ever faced …

My ex-wife.“ 

 

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Beauty Queen Trades in Crown for Fantasy Sports Gig

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

As we all know, fantasy sports are solely for nerdy middle-aged men who unfailingly reside in their parents’ basements. Apparently, though, no one has shared this info with Caitlin Morrall.

If that name or the corresponding picture seem familiar, then you might know her from her days as a beauty queen. And that’s not opinion coming across. Among Morrall’s actual accomplishments was being named Miss Wisconsin USA for 2007 and then becoming the state’s only rep in the past 30 years to place among the top 15 nationally.

Now, however, folks can find her at World Fantasy Games headquarters or, more easily, as the main real face on RapidDraft.

“I was substitute teaching to make ends meet and met (WFG CEO) Jeff Thomas,” Morrall tells FSB.com. “He was aware of my freelance work with Fox Sports Wisconsin and my time as a blogger and weekly co-host on ESPN Milwaukee’s midday show The D-List. We sat down and chatted about my future goals, and he thought I would be a good fit for a plethora of opportunities within his company, including the production and launch of RapidDraft Fantasy Football.”

Thomas says that Morrall brings much more than a pretty face to the company and the product.

“It was obvious to me immediately that Caitlin can become a talented sports journalist,” he says. “She knows fantasy sports, and she can mix it up with any fantasy sports crowd. She will bring a perfect mix of class, sports knowledge and entertainment to RapidDraft. She’s real, she’s beautiful and she knows sports — a mix that works for her and will work for the real people that play RapidDraft.”

Although Morrall is new to the fantasy industry, sports are certainly not new to her.

“I come from a sports fan family,” she says. “My dad lives and dies with the Packers, and my mom loves just about any sport there is because she grew up being mostly around her dad and brothers. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t watch football on a Sunday or go to as many Milwaukee Bucks games as possible.”

Morrall proclaims herself a “football girl” and says she’s about as useless on fall Sundays as most of the folks who read this site. She proved to be more than just a fan, though, by earning an internship with ESPN Milwaukee radio in 2007 following a guest appearance on the station’s The D-List.

Come football season, Morrall did a weekly segment called “Beauty and the Geeks” in which she talked football and picked games against the two D-List hosts and the producer (ranking second at season’s end). The segment was successful enough to earn her a spot as a blogger and more time on the air.

She’ll be doing many of those same things for RapidDraft. Morrall will be among the football bloggers who will provide material throughout the week and will co-host a daily show on BlogTalkRadio with Pat Hegewald. Although she is also involved in the production of the game, Morrall says she favors the on-air stuff.

“I love my job with World Fantasy Games because it gives me that opportunity to do various things,” she says. “But my favorite part of being involved with RapidDraft is the on-camera work I get to do. I am the host of ‘RDTV,’ which consists of hosting the ‘How to Play’ videos, video blogging, hosting a radio show and writing.”

(World Fantasy Games also owns this site.)

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