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

– Sprint users can download the free Sprint Football Live app for their smart phones, which includes fantasy team management capabilities.

– HollyStock is the latest new game to apply a fantasy-type model to the world of celebrity gossip. Although the concept might first come across as stock market style, making or losing money based on the whims of other players, the system actually purports to track 200 celebrity news sites daily to tabulate each subject’s actual fantasy-celebrity value.

– It’s a good time to be (or own) Chris Johnson, whether your sport is football or baseball.

– If you think it’s tough to choose between running backs at the top of your fantasy football draft, imagine a league that combines all four “major” American sports and throws into the mix LeBron James, Albert Pujols and whoever the heck plays hockey these days.

– Current and former members of the U.S. Armed Services are eligible to play free fantasy football against their brethren via MWRfantasysports.com, a partnership with RapidDraft.

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We all know Joe Namath. He’s the guy who guaranteed his upstart New York Jets would beat the heavily favored Colts and then did it. He’s the guy who became an enduring cultural icon in a game with notoriously short careers and a city that chews icons up and spits them out.

Now, he’s the guy aiming to beat you in fantasy football — RapidDraft Fantasy Football, to be exact.

“I’m excited about teaming up with RapidDraft,” Namath said. “No one does fantasy football like these guys.”

“Broadway Joe” is not only the newest member of the RD avatar lineup. He’ll also be taking part in the strategy behind the avatar, a role filled for the other 10 avatars by experienced fantasy sites.

Most of these experts are folks who spend their days studying football numbers, but Namath brings the unique perspective of a national champion during his three-year run at Alabama and a two-time AFL MVP and four-time league all-star over 12 years in New York City. Namath beyond the numbers with insight into factors such as the real impact of injuries, which players have lost a step and how big a factor weather truly is.

Fresh off being named an inaugural inductee to the Jets’ new Ring of Honor, the hall of fame quarterback joins RapidDraft.com in part to promote his new online venture, BroadwayJoe.tv, which launched Tuesday.

The site is a social portal that affords Namath fans the opportunity to interact with the legend. At the center is a video blog that will feature several posts a week with Namath evaluating the Jets, Alabama and various other stories throughout the world of football. He also promises to tell many stories from a life that has included stints as a game analyst, actor and variety show host.

The message under the “welcome” banner on the new site reads, “My thoughts on the Jets, the Crimson Tide, some of life’s lessons & much more …”

We’ll be interested to hear what Namath has to say at BroadwayJoe.tv, and anyone interested in drafting against the legend can do so any time at RapidDraft.com.

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

– Fantazzle is offering customizable high-stakes fantasy football leagues as part of the SUPERDRAFT event in Las Vegas. Buy-in levels range from $1,000 to $10,000, with customizable league rules and sizes (anywhere from eight to 14 teams). Each level includes at least an 85 percent payout rate to winners.

– We had former Chiefs and Jets kicker Nick Lowery on the RapidDraft.com Fantasy Lunch, our BlogTalkRadio show on Thursday. Although it was enough for us that Lowery — an obviously bright guy and now professional public speaker — was engaging and entertaining, the part that really made it worth a post here came deep into his interview. That was when the veteran of 18 NFL seasons said, “Fantasy football is the best thing that ever happened to football.”

– The Hazean is keeping polls open through Saturday to determine your favorite fantasy football team name for July. I voted for “Stafford Infection” among the 10 options, though I find the leader quite clever in its use of all four Steelers quarterbacks.

– Just like it did for baseball season, RotoWire is offering its fantasy football draft kit as an iPhone app. Among the features is a function that provides player recommendations when you check off the guys who have already been drafted by others.

– FFChamps.com has reached an agreement with Boston-based WEEI.com to offer the former’s fantasy football draft kit through the website for the popular sports talk station.

– Jene Bramel of Footballguys.com takes a turn in the NYTimes.com Fifth Down blog to tell fantasy football folks why they should be playing with individual defensive players and refutes the common arguments against doing so.

– I recently took part in one of eight “Pros vs. Joes” drafts put on by the folks at the Fantasy Football Players Championship, which pits six fantasy players against six fantasy site representatives in each league. Those who didn’t participate can pick the winners for a shot at free 2011 FFPC entries. (Find my squad here — League 5 — and keep in mind that tight ends get 1.5 points per reception and it’s an optimal-scoring format, where you don’t have to set your lineup.)

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In a boring meeting? Taking a long car ride (when you’re not driving)? Watching Reality TV with the family? Basically — do you need something else to do?

Well, RapidDraft.com hopes you download their new, free iPhone Mock Draft app and then get lost in the fantasy of RapidDraft free fantasy football.

The smart-phone population is growing rapidly, to the point that half of all American cell-phone users are expected to own one by the end of 2011.

The free RD app, developed for World Fantasy Games by Advanced Sports Media, allows you to practice up on your drafting whenever and wherever you want — even if you can’t find the time to sit in front of your computer and mock out a bunch of drafts. Practicing, of course, can only help prepare you for the real thing — whether you’re trying out the full product at RapidDraft.com or meeting up for draft weekend with your friends.

Like the game itself, the app lets you pick your draft spot and select against 11 avatars, so that you can try your hand from various spots using various strategies. A bonus is that if you get interrupted and can’t finish the mock draft all at once, the interface will simply pause and wait for you to resume.

Users may draft up to five times per draft position online, but unlimited times on the iPhone (affording plenty of practice before you take your free shots at the real thing and a $100,000 grand prize). The app also contains settings that make it easier to draft when you don’t have spreadsheets and preview magazines in front of you. Player recommendations make it easier to sift through the list, and you can toggle settings on items such as bye-week conflicts and preferred drafting style.

You may want to check it out as you get ready for the 2010 fantasy football season.