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

– Verizon Wireless and the NFL announced a deal Tuesday that will present live football coverage to the handsets of Verizon customers for at least the next four years — including fantasy panacea the Red Zone Channel.

– Switched.com rates the MyFantasyTeams application among the best sports apps available for the Blackberry. Just what Blackberry owners need, another reason to keep staring at the thing.

– A writer for the Hollywood Reporter applied the letter of the well-known (at least around these parts) federal UIGEA law to the common practice of holding Academy Awards pools. His assessment: As long as you stick to the same types of money rules that govern fantasy-games providers, there’s enough skill involved to keep things legit.

– RotoHog has signed on to build a celebrity-based fantasy game for US Weekly magazine.

– Dave Richard of CBSSports.com uses the site’s Tableau-produced analytics to compare value across positions for the past football season.

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

– Users are no doubt already aware that Yahoo! has launched its 2010 baseball commissioner product. This year, the system has added support for auction-style drafting.

– It’s not easy to find on KentuckyDerby.com unless you already know the name of the game, but the “official” Derby site presents a fantasy game called “Road to the Roses” to accompany the Triple Crown events.

– The Fantasy Football Librarian just got back from a busy trip to Miami for Super Bowl XLIV — thanks to her win in the Buffalo Wild Wings bloggers league — and has some photos and details.

– You already loved Motorcycle-USA.com, and it can only get better with a new section devoted to fantasy. Real fans of two-wheeled racing can also play for a trip to this year’s U.S. Grand Prix.

– It’s not related to fantasy, but the San Diego Chargers are looking for interns for the coming summer, with a focus on college students. How many of us have envisioned working for a pro sports franchise at some point? Gotta start somewhere.

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

– The news slipped by us at holiday time, but Mastersball.com and CREATiVE Sports have merged, operating under the Mastersball heading since the start of 2010. As fantasy veteran Lawr Michaels explains in his open letter to readers, the move combines staffs long on experience. The outlet is also part of Fantasy Sports Ventures’ Fantasy Players Network.

– Fantazzle is looking to hire a full-time social-media guru and add a few interns.

– Perhaps you’re sitting there looking over the RotoWire fantasy baseball draft kit on your PC and iPhone, wishing that you could get just one more electronic format. Well, if you’re a Kindle owner, you can now purchase the baseball preview magazine wirelessly.

– OPENSports.com’s Chris Chester states it in terms that I probably wouldn’t use, but his issues with the iPad pertaining to viewing baseball games and accessing fantasy baseball make sense.

– The NFL RedZone Channel on my cell phone? Yes, please. (Now all I need is a phone on which I can watch it …) The appeal of this channel to fantasy players is obvious for anyone familiar with the concept. If you’ve been asleep for a while, it’s a channel that shows every score (touchdowns and field goals) through the day games on NFL Sundays, switching live to contests in which one time is nearing the end zone.

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A recent Associated Press story on NFL players’ involvement with fantasy football made the rounds pretty well in the wake of the Maurice Jones-Drew kneeldown that ruined the lives of approximately 40 percent of American males.

The story offered disappointingly few specifics on how widespread fantasy participation is in NFL locker rooms, but there were quite a few interesting or funny little nuggets worth passing along. So, I think I willdo just that …

– MJD’s own fantasy team lost because he took a knee at the goal line to milk the clock in his team’s Week 10 victory over the Jets. Bears kicker Robbie Gould lost on that play as well.

– Matt Hasselbeck benched himself in favor of Brett Favre back in Week 5. This would be a good idea most weeks, but Hasselbeck then went out and threw a season-high four touchdown passes against Jacksonville. (Didn’t he watch enoough film that week to know what a great matchup he had?) Favre, meanwhile, produced just 232 yards, one touchdown and one interception against the Rams.

– Leon Washington hit injured reserve after breaking his leg against Oakland in Week 7 but had yet to replace himself on the roster of his NFLPA team when the article ran. Perhaps dropping himself in fantasy would signal the end of his season even more than being deactivated by his real team?

– It should be relatively easy for you to bench Cowboys receiver Roy Williams, which even he can do in pursuit of a fantasy title: “It’s hard to do, but I’ve got to do it. I’m trying to win.”

– Jones-Drew won’t start players against whom he’s playing for real: “That’s just how you do it. If I had Peyton Manning, I would have to sit him when we play them because you don’t do those things. You always want the best to happen on the field. That’s how it is.”

– For similar reasons, Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis has no interest in playing fantasy in the first place: “I see these guys every Sunday. I’m trying to beat them. Why would I want to sit on the computer and vote them for my team and have to root for them?”