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

– Former Fanball boss Ryan Houston presents some updates via his website on the movements of several former charges, including Geoff Stein’s announcement this week of a new position with MyFantasyLeague.com. Houston also mentions that Kay Adams, part of Sirius’ Fanball Fantasy Drive team, will be hosting her own Sunday night show.

– We also learned from the aforementioned Ryan Houston post that Sirius XM will be on hand in Arizona this weekend to broadcast the LABR drafts. Steve Gardner of USA Today has the lineups for each league and some further details for anyone unfamiliar with the League of Alternate Baseball Realities. The drafts will be on the air Saturday and Sunday nights, 7 p.m. to midnight Eastern.

– RotoExperts announced Tuesday that it has acquired MC3 Sports Media, which owns and operates the Around the Horn Baseball and Xtra Point Football blogs.

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

– Sirius XM has held on to hosts Ray Flowers and Kyle Elfrink of the Fanball Fantasy Drive show, which is now called Sirius XM Fantasy Drive. Flowers, the creator of BaseballGuys.com, has also joined RotoWire as a contributing writer.

– From the recent Herald-News obituary of 86-year-old Emma Bianchi of Joliet, Ill.: “When Emma died Dec. 11 at the age of 86, the family lost a diehard fantasy football player. Eleven years ago, Laureen’s then-sixth grade son started a fantasy football team and asked Emma to join it. At first, Emma didn’t quite understand the logistics and selected her players based on ‘He’s got such a nice German name,’ or ‘He works so hard for his community.’” We can only guess that she also loved David Hasselhoff.

– With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, here’s a plug for the fantasy-style games of Picktainment, which changed its name from AwardsPicks.com with the addition of games for American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

– Steve Gardner of USA Today passes along and builds off another blogger’s pondering of whether the rise of the machines will consume fantasy sports analysis.

– You’ve probably already seen this, since it was reported by Sports Business Journal and passed along by Pro Football Talk. It’s worth noting that EA Sports will be getting a break on its rights fees for 2011 as a result of the labor strife, in exchange for a one-year extension to their deal through 2013. One has to wonder if a similar deal is available to any of the many others who pay annual rights fees.

– SI.com’s Joe Lemire recently offered an ode to Strat-O-Matic baseball for this year’s 50th anniversary.

– This agent blogger ponders the impact that Bloomberg’s foray into baseball statistical analysis — to which 17 MLB teams now subscribe — may have on player contract negotiations.

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You might remember Cliff Floyd from such fantasy baseball seasons as 2005, when you scoffed at the buddy who drafted the then-Met only to luck into a career-high 34 homers and your league’s title.

This season, perhaps Floyd can point you toward some similar values.

That’s because the man who played for eight major-league teams over 17 seasons — most recently the Padres in 2009 — kicked off his career as a fantasy host on Monday.

Floyd will sit behind the mic three days a week on Sirius XM Fantasy Baseball, which airs 2-5 p.m. Eastern and also counts former Mets GM Steve Phillips as a host.

“We all know that winning is the name of the game in fantasy baseball,” Floyd said in the press release. “I’m looking forward to helping our listeners sort through pitcher/batter matchups, stats and all the other things that factor into wins and losses so all those fantasy GMs can dominate their leagues.”

Floyd debuted with the Expos in 1993 and also spent time with the Marlins, Red Sox, Cubs and Rays, in addition to the aforementioned Mets and Padres.

Next week’s FSTA winter conference in Las Vegas figures to have a strong Sirius XM presence.

The satellite radio company that dove into the industry in July with its 24-hour fantasy sports channel will broadcast live the Monday night baseball draft that opens the event. Sirius even started by broadcasting live (during the RotoWire midday show) the Jan. 11 draft-order selection. (Find results on Charlie Wiegert’s Godfather of Fantasy Sports blog.)

Beyond the draft, though, Sirius also plans to do various interviews Tuesday — the conference’s lone full day — for use during its assorted shows and will cover the Tuesday night awards ceremony.

On Tuesday afternoon, Sirius XM senior vice president of sports programming Steve Cohen will also sit down for a one-on-one session with Wiegert.

“The Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Channel is probably the biggest thing that has happened in fantasy sports this past year,” according to the FSTA conference agenda, an idea Wiegert echoed to FSB.com when discussing the conference plans. With the number of familiar fantasy brands it quickly brought on board — along with athletes such as Maurice Jones-Drew and Jeremy Roenick and celebrities such as actor Jerry Ferrara — it’s not hard to understand the reasoning.

Of course, it’s ultimately all about the content, and the Sirius fantasy folks recently put a wrap on their first football season with an awards show, naming the best of the fantasy season as voted on by the channel’s hosts.

That crew agreed with the Fantasy Sports Writers Association membership in tapping Tampa’s Mike Williams as top rookie and Arian Foster as most valuable player.

“Hopefully I proved that I can be a featured back in this league,” Foster told Sirius XM host Anita Marks during the awards show. “I’m not sure there’s much else you can do as a running back to prove that you can [be] a feature back.”

The Sirius voters — many of whom are also FSWA members — also agreed with Michael Vick as the top quarterback, Roddy White as the No. 1 receiver, Pittsburgh as the best team defense and New England linebacker Jerod Mayo as the premier IDP. Antonio Gates rounded out that group by taking top tight end honors.

The rest of the awards went this way …

Biggest Bust: Randy Moss, WR, three teams
Out of Nowhere: Peyton Hillis, RB, Cleveland
Don’t Believe the Hype: Tie — Shonn Greene, RB, N.Y. Jets and Ryan Matthews, RB, San Diego
Most Impactful Injury: Tie — Ryan Grant, RB, Green Bay and Kevin Kolb, QB, Philadelphia
Best Single Game Performance: Vick — Week 10 vs. Washington
Worst Single-Game Performance: Chris Johnson — Week 12 vs. Houston
Most Valuable Pickup: Vick
Worst Screwing: Calvin Johnson non-TD in Week 1
Biggest (touchdown) Vulture: Mike Tolbert, RB, San Diego
Handcuff of the Year: Tolbert
Sunday Morning Stress: Gates
Playoff Hero: Vick
Playoff Goat: Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota
Wait ‘Til Next Year: Mathews

The show originally aired on Jan. 11 and will re-air Sunday at 4 p.m. ET.