A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Sports Business Daily reported that December was the best sales month in the history of the NBA Store in New York City, including the online outlet NBAStore.com. Could this mean that money awaits in the NBA fantasy market, which has been tapped into nowhere near as deeply as football and baseball?

– Before finally coming out on top in ESPN’s Gridiron Challenge, David Wegner of Alexandria, Minn., started to feel the pressure of the fight to get there.

– With the Mercedes Benz Championship teeing off the 2009 PGA season, Golfweek has added four staffers to its group of Fantasy Aces that is now seven strong.

– Rallypoint announced a deal with Samsung on Thursday, whereby it will produce a fantasy sports widget for the 2009 line of Samsung HDTV’s.

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 recent posts on the FSB News page.

– STATS LLC reached a deal with the PGA that makes the company “an official provider of in-progress hole-by-hole results for all PGA Tour, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour events.”

– In a display of just how hard it will be for them to deal with the off-season, some of the guys at Fantasy Baseball Generals have already mocked a draft for 2009. (As I write this, the 2008 regular season still has one game to be finished.)

– LeagueSafe is partnering with Bancorp to in the payout system for leagues that use its fee-collection service.