Posts Tagged ‘soccer’

FSB Daily 11/10: Real Soccer Fantasy, Nate Silver, PASPN.net

Monday, November 10th, 2008

A roundup of recent posts from the FSB News page.

– Sure, it’s fun to run a fake team you populate with real players, but a group of British soccer fans have been doing it with the real thing.

– We’re all sports and/or stats geeks here, and Nate Silver just might be our king.

– PASPN.net got some play in The Wall Street Journal recently for its unique fantasy basketball game.

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FSB Daily 9/13: Coach Mack, Ultimate Football Netork, Sports Network

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– Count former Texas and Arizona football coach John Mackovic among the fantasy-weary.

UltimateFootballNetwork.com wants you to channel all your football teams through it. (Click over to the news page for a video demo.)

– The Sports Network has rolled out a mobile subscription service for Chinese fans of English Premier league soccer.

– So, if your town were ravaged by hurricanes, and you were busy helping with the rebuilding effort, would you find time to keep from letting your fantasy leaguemates down?

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FSB Daily 9/9: Sports Network, FF Librarian, Fantasy Hockey Faceoff

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

A roundup of posts from the FSB News page:

– Content from The Sports Network will now be available to mobile-phone users globally.

– Ashton Kutcher plans to extend his Web business pursuits into fantasy football.

– An AOL Fanhouse blogger takes issue with the notion that fantasy hockey has gotten too serious. (The response is to this column on About.com.)

– The Washington Times takes a look at the trend of mixing fantasy football with social networks.

– A Colorado Fox affiliate profiles Sara Holladay, an actual librarian whom you might know as the Fantasy Football Librarian.

– There’s at least some concern in England that big-money backers are changing the landscape of Premiership soccer.

– Welcome DraftMix.com to the genre of fantasy competition that renews on a daily or weekly basis.

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FSB Daily 8/18: NFL Mobile Live, Fantasy at Work, FanSoft

Monday, August 18th, 2008

A roundup of posts from the FSB news page.

– Sprint and the NFL have partnered up to launch NFL Mobile Live, including football broadcasts on your phone

– American workers continue to devote a decent amount of office time to what really matters.

– FanSoft offers prizes for the best photo examples of FanDraft software at work.

– Lucky Europeans have already begun their fantasy football season.

– Jeff Pearlman hates you and your fantasy sports.

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