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

– David Hersh, who formerly served as vice president of fantasy sports for CBS Sportsline after coming over in the Commissioner.com acquisition, has joined RotoExperts as a senior adviser.

– In conjunction with MLB.com, Bloomberg Sports has rolled out the second season of its Front Office product of fantasy baseball tools, which it promises will be easier for consumers to use.

– You Digital Media has reached a deal with Accuscore that will allow the latter to create and present video representations of its data sets. (If you know just what that means without reading more, you’re smarter than I.)

– We don’t do player-news stuff in this space, but I thought it worth lamenting that we haven’t even reached the starting of spring-training games and already a fantasy ace seems on his way to Tommy John surgery. Consider Adam Wainwright the latest argument in favor of drafting as close to the season as possible.

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Right after I posted the “officially baseball time” item, I skipped over to e-mail — yeah, I skip … I figure it beats prancing — and was greeted by a message announcing the fantasy partnership between MLB.com and CBS Sports.

First of all, this partnership is noteworthy because it belonged to Yahoo! in 2010. At least some further interest is added by the fact that CBS’ longtime deal to run the commissioner product for NFL.com ended before the 2010 football season.

Whether it has anything to do with NFL.com pumping up the inclusion of game highlights in its new in-house fantasy product for the season just ended, video highlights is among the selling points in the ad touting the CBS-MLB alignment.

In announcing CBS Sports’ baseball product as the “official” commissioner of MLB for 2011, the ad mentions the following new features:

“– In-game and post-game video highlights for all your players
– Free MLB.com GameDay package
– Enhanced league management tools for the Commissioner
– New look
– Simple drag & drop roster management”

MLB.com GameDay is the audio package that provides local-radio coverage to games in every MLB market, which will apparently be available to everyone in your league if you sign up with CBS.

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

– Inc. Magazine wonders aloud about the impact of the name change on the company going from Fantasy Sports Ventures to Big Lead Sports. BlogsWithBalls.com points to the whole thing as a prime example of bloggers’ increasing impact and a lesson to those “bloggers” that it’s possible for them to steer more than just the direction of their content.

– This list of the 10 most-visited U.S. sports websites in September includes three fantasy-games outlets. There’s no way for us to know the impact of fantasy on traffic to other sites, but four others on the list fall within the same domains as included fantasy sites. Beyond that, I know fantasy football sends me to NFL.com (an eighth listed site) for a large portion of every day.

– MLB.com provides a video look at the recently completed First Pitch Arizona event, hosted by Ron Shandler’s BaseballHQ.com.

– Former Milwaukee Brewers teammates Ben Sheets and Geoff Jenkins have reportedly teamed up on a WCOFF platinum-league team this season.

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

– According to recent reports, two-thirds of kids in the 8-to-18 age range now own cell phones, perhaps representing a doubling in volume since 2005. The majority still don’t own smartphones, but that’s true of the population at-large. Whether or not that number rows at the same rate as the whole cell-phone market making the switch, it’s clear that you can reach that young, desirable audience on the go.

– The Fantasy Consultant, Nathan Zegura, got a visit from Ashton Kutcher on Friday to talk some Bears on his first show for the SIRIUS XM fantasy sports channel. (Zegura and Kutcher do an in-season fantasy football show for the Web.)

– The launch of The Hazean’s best fantasy football team name contest last week garnered a mention in the Hot Clicks blog at SI.com. The three monthly winners last summer were: Romo Sexual, Forgetting Brandon Marshall and Kendra’s Fun Basketts.

– Here’s a bit about the relationship between Oracle and MLB.com the places software from the former into the latter’s fantasy baseball platform.

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