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

– Now this is interesting: Athlon Sports just launched this week a premium league-hosting option that allows users to combine college and NFL players in the same pool. FSB.com will have the scoop as soon as we get a chance to talk to the folks involved.

– The Wall Street Journal recently presented a fairly extensive writeup on the fantasy implications of the just-started World Cup, as well as the pitfalls of fitting soccer into a successful fantasy format.

– Yahoo! gets into detail about its new fantasy sports API and YQL tables via its Developer Network Blog. I’d try to sum it up or pick out highlights here if I were a bit smarter.

– MyFantasyLeague.com has partnered with FanDraft, allowing those who purchase the latter’s draft software to easily import results into MFL and save $20 off the MFL league-creation fee.

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A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Trying to figure out where everyone in your league should gather for your draft next year? How about Aruba? (If you can afford to hold your league draft in Aruba, make sure you use the FSB contact page to acquire our address for donations.)

– Once you get past a couple of other folks in far less interesting industries, this New York Post story tells a bit about how Scott Swanay rebounded from two corporate merger-driven layoffs to develop his Fantasy Sherpa sites (baseball and football to date, with basketball and hockey in the works).

– eROI offers a look at how it developed content e-mails for CBSSports.com (free download) and how important such a tool can be.

– FanSoft Media expects to release the 2009 version of its FanDraft baseball product in December — ahead of its usual January release.

– The global economic downturn could impact the National Hockey League more heavily than other major American sports leagues, largely because of the lack of a solid television contract and the weakness of the Canadian dollar.

– This columnist in California has found fantasy golf lacking and wants to play with rotisserie scoring.

A roundup of posts from the FSB news page.

– Sprint and the NFL have partnered up to launch NFL Mobile Live, including football broadcasts on your phone

– American workers continue to devote a decent amount of office time to what really matters.

– FanSoft offers prizes for the best photo examples of FanDraft software at work.

– Lucky Europeans have already begun their fantasy football season.

– Jeff Pearlman hates you and your fantasy sports.

• ON Networks announces its second season of the 5-Minute Drill online fantasy football show.
• The average primetime rating for Olympics coverage is stronger than any non-U.S.-hosted Games since 1976.
• FanSoft Media takes football notebooks online with the Cheatsheet Creator.
• Despite not having begun play yet, Women’s Professional Soccer is already planning expansion.
• The NBA is partnering with AEG to run and sell naming rights to arena in China.