A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Sirius XM has held on to hosts Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink of the Fanball Fantasy Drive show, which is now called Sirius XM Fantasy Drive. Flowers, the creator of BaseballGuys.com, has also joined RotoWire as a contributing writer.

– From the recent Herald-News obituary of 86-year-old Emma Bianchi of Joliet, Ill.: “When Emma died Dec. 11 at the age of 86, the family lost a diehard fantasy football player. Eleven years ago, Laureen’s then-sixth grade son started a fantasy football team and asked Emma to join it. At first, Emma didn’t quite understand the logistics and selected her players based on ‘He’s got such a nice German name,’ or ‘He works so hard for his community.’” We can only guess that she also loved David Hasselhoff.

– With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, here’s a plug for the fantasy-style games of Picktainment, which changed its name from AwardsPicks.com with the addition of games for American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

– Steve Gardner of USA Today passes along and builds off another blogger’s pondering of whether the rise of the machines will consume fantasy sports analysis.

– You’ve probably already seen this, since it was reported by Sports Business Journal and passed along by Pro Football Talk. It’s worth noting that EA Sports will be getting a break on its rights fees for 2011 as a result of the labor strife, in exchange for a one-year extension to their deal through 2013. One has to wonder if a similar deal is available to any of the many others who pay annual rights fees.

– SI.com’s Joe Lemire recently offered an ode to Strat-O-Matic baseball for this year’s 50th anniversary.

– This agent blogger ponders the impact that Bloomberg’s foray into baseball statistical analysis — to which 17 MLB teams now subscribe — may have on player contract negotiations.

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A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– It’s not just sports bars and Vegas casinotels (I made that up) marketing to the heavy-spending fantasy consumer anymore. The Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau is selling the idea of hosting your draft at one of its resorts, going so far as to print up free “Pocono Mountains Destination Draft” T-shirts.

– We’re not here to pimp products at FSB.com, rather to inform. That said, if you fancy yourself a football fan and can’t appreciate the Football Outsiders Almanac — whose 2010 edition went live in PDF form Thursday — you’re either not as big a fan as you thought or too stodgy to consider new forms of analysis.

– Former NFL great Jim Brown is challenging a court ruling that said EA Sports is within its rights to use his likeness in video games. In dismissing Brown’s case back in December, a district court judge classified video games as “expressive works, akin to an expressive painting that depicts celebrity athletes of past and present in a realistic sporting environment.”

– No fantasy relevance here, but the folks who pay to play fantasy are also the same types of consumers who will sign up for NFL team credit cards. Those who already have them will apparently have to use up any accrued awards points before the league switches providers in August to Barclays’ of England (a country with which the NFL just seems to keep getting cozier).

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A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– The Fantasy Players Association website passes along word that the Fantasy Football Players Championship has chosen RealTimeSports to host its leagues this year. The FPA also raises some concerns that the FFPC audience might have with the switch from previous host MyFantasyLeague.com.

– You’ve surely heard of the fancy new fantasy league-hosting product at NFL.com, but did you know that EA Sports will be providing the player projections for the full season and on a weekly basis?

– Have you ever played in a Yahoo! public league (or a free mock draft anywhere) and gotten annoyed by the person who screws the thing up with idiotic early picks? Well, FantasySharks.com is encouraging them. For the fifth straight year, the site is supporting a challenge in which participants join a “competitive” Yahoo! public league and draft a kicker and a team defense with their first two picks. The top prize (a sum of “sand dollars,” Fantasy Sharks’ fake currency) goes to anyone who can win their league.

– For accuracy in running back rankings, RotoWorld edged the field of participants who have been in the FF Librarian’s Accuracy Challenge for all three years it has existed. KFFL, however, has been dynamite over the past two seasons.

– In the wake of Yahoo! opening up its fantasy sports API, FanGraphs takes a crack at explaining a bit about what it is and what it allows you to do.

– Did you miss out on fantasy points when England’s clear goal was disallowed against Germany? Did you miss the game and the replay? Legos have your back.

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A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Fantasy Sharks is looking for user-posted fantasy football content, from which the site hopes to cull more staff writers.

– I think that, deep down, we guys can all find some truth in this inspirational song … not that there’s anything wrong with that.

– At the risk of condoning the language (I don’t), I think the comments on this post announcing a partnership between FF Champs and Barstool Sports can at least serve as a reminder/warning to know your audience and be careful about how you speak to it.

– This FIFA app for Facebook developed by EA Sports apparently includes functionality for fantasy soccer leagues.

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