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

– The crew at FantasyPros911.com has announced a free iPhone app that allows users to connect with each other via Opinionaided.com or Facebook to ask and answer fantasy sports questions.

– Fanball announced Tuesday a deal with DISH Network that will support Fanball games SnapDraft and Team Pick’Em on this DISH Network platform.

– We here at FSB.com know what you’re thinking: “I’m spending all this time figuring out how to build the best fantasy squad for this season, but how do can these fantasy football lessons help my dating life?” Of course, AskMen.com has the answers.

– Chris Richards of Canada.com points out some of his favorite fantasy sports apps for the iPhone.

– The folks behind FantasyFootballXtreme.com have launched FantasyBasketballXtreme.com to treat a different sport. We’ll leave it to you to guess which one.

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It’s been about two weeks since the Sirius XM fantasy sports channel hit the air, but a week from now will be the launch bash — centered on a football draft, of course.

The Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square will play host Wednesday to a daylong event featuring live broadcasts by multiple Sirius XM shows and a 12-man fantasy football draft with a field populated by station personalities — a list that includes Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew.

“We’re assembling intriguing personalities from sports, talk, comedy and music in one place for an unprecedented event in the world of fantasy sports and we’re thrilled to share it with our subscribers,” Scott Greenstein, Sirius XM’s president and chief content officer, said in the media release.

Joining Jones Drew will be:

• Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, a former New York city sports talk radio host who now fronts his on satellite channel
• Steve Phillips, former Mets GM and ESPN analyst
• Jeremy Roenick, former NHL star
• Gary Dell’Abate, “BabaBooey” to anyone who would care
• Jay Thomas, an actor and Sirius host
• John Hansen of FantasyGuru.com
• Kyle Elfrink of Fanball
• Scott Engel of RotoExperts
• Chris Liss of RotoWire
• Scott Ferrall, who hosts a show on Howard Stern’s Sirius channel
• Rich Davis, Ryan Sampson, Stanley T. and Nicole, who host Morning Mash Up on Sirius XM’s Hits 1

Where this draft differs, of course, from the typical celebrity draft is that it includes several real fantasy industry veterans. It’ll be interesting to see who among the non-fantasy pros can hold their own and if anyone, say, drafts Brett Favre at the top of Round 2.

The draft itself will broadcast live at 1 p.m. on both the fantasy channel and Sirius NFL radio, following a lead-in show by Adam Schein and former Raiders (and about 13 other NFL teams) quarterback Rich Gannon. The overall event will begin at 10 a.m.

If you take nothing else from this, it’s at least obvious that Sirius XM isn’t merely putting some fantasy stuff out there to fill a station. The company seems to realize that this is a strong market and one that deserved more attention than it might have previously been giving it (at least beyond previous shows by Hansen and the RotoWire crew).

The lineup began with the addition of RotoWire back in March, but it wasn’t until today that SIRIUS XM officially announced its complete new fantasy sports channel.

“We’ve created a unique destination for fantasy sports fans,” president and chief content officer Scott Greenstein said in the press release. “Our listeners get live play-by-play … that allows them to follow all their fantasy players or teams in real time. Now they have a dedicated fantasy sports channel that they can tune into 24 hours a day.”

The channel — 147 on XM, 211 on SIRIUS — features a list of prominent fantasy companies and veteran writers. Perhaps more interesting, though, is that the lineup will include some current and former athletes and a former general manager.

Starting in August, Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew is scheduled to host a Friday night fantasy football show (7 to 9 p.m.). Jones-Drew has clearly been a leader among athletes in “getting” fantasy, going so far as to say his infamous kneel down against the Jets last year cost his own fantasy team a victory. (Related: What will his coach have to say, though?)

Before that, former Mets general manager and ESPN analyst Steve Phillips will begin co-hosting a fantasy baseball show (with Jeff Rickard) weeknights from 8 to 11. In addition, basketball season will bring a weekly show for that sport, featuring former NBA guard Dennis Scott as an analyst and fantasy industry veteran Scott Engel as host. Hockey season will bring Jeremy Roenick as a host for a fantasy hockey show. Engel will also host a weekly fantasy golf show with Golf.com founder Alex Miceli.

“To complement the in-depth and informative fantasy talk from the industry’s experts, listeners will hear from all kinds of personalities, from actors and musicians in addition to current and former athletes, all with real fantasy sports knowledge,” Greenstein said in the release. “We will present a daily listening experience that is informative, and always engaging and entertaining.”

In addition to the daily (weekdays) RotoWire show — and previously reported slots for Fanball and Fantasy Pros 911 — the SIRIUS XM fantasy lineup will include a football show featuring FantasyGuru.com’s John Hansen and Scout.com’s Adam Caplan, a RotoExperts show during morning drive time and a Friday night entry from The Fantasy Consultant (Nathan Zegura).

Check out the full announced lineup here.

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

– Two days after its release, the Footballguys.com iPhone app ranks as the sixth most popular free app.

– The Fanball folks announced Friday that “Fanball’s Fantasy Drive” will occupy the 5-8 p.m. time slot on Sirius 125, the satellite radio channel that kicked off a fantasy schedule this spring with “RotoWire Fantasy Sports Today.” Kyle Elfrink, Ray Flowers and Charlie Wiegert will host, and Tom Kessenich announced that the first week will feature interviews with past NFFC winners.

– According to SuperCommish.com, The Post Sports Bar & Grill fared quite well in its first year of operation with a particular lean toward fantasy players.

– Most of us have to determine which hurlers to start for our fantasy baseball teams every week. Now you can do the same with your favorite Irish hurlers. Fantasy Gaelic Sports launched its beta phase recently with platforms for several sports.

– If you’ve got a dollar and some fantasy sports questions, you can buy the Fantasy Sports Coach iPhone App, which appears to treat baseball, football, basketball and hockey. The App seems to be trying to build a community of users to answer each other’s questions, though the first review on the page says early questions are being addressed by the programmers.

– The 2010 Fantasy Football Draft Guide from HattyWaiverWireGuru.com is already available as an app for iPhone or iPad.

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