The best advertistments ever! More like the most expensive advertisements ever, but, hey that is close enough. While today's Super Bowl. While the Colts vs. Saints is surely to be a shootout and a fun game to watch, ultimately, it the commercials will be the most memorable. In fact, CBSSports.com has a site ready to play all of the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials once the commercials have aired. Just to whet your appetite before the game, here is a clip of the outtakes from the E*Trade Babies. As an aside, are you one of the people that ... Read More

According to Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal, he just tweeted that "Stats LLC signs deal with MLB Advanced Media to become baseball's official real-time data licensor. Story coming today in SBD." Uh-oh. Two years ago, MLB Advanced Media lost a court case against CDM Sports (Fanball), which essentially stated that statistics are public domain, and that a license from MLB was not required to host fantasy sports games. Unfortunately, this new arrangement might be a great work-around for MLB, since Stats is able to choose to whom it sells its statistical data. By creating this ... Read More

If you like watching, you may be interested in the surf, skate, and moto fantasy leagues that Fantasy Action Sports League hosts. It is currently accepting sign-ups for its fantasy surf season. Fantasy players compete for prices of $2,000 in cash per event or over $10,000 in prizes for the season competition, including a $5,000 top prize. While these are not the largest fantasy prize pools ever, they are respectable enough that fantasy players should take note of them. Fantasy Action Sports has a free and paid version for the single event and the ... Read More

With the races that lead to the Kentucky Derby, WinStar Farms announced the launch of its Fantasy Derby contest. Fantasy players create a stable of 15 horses and earn points as the horses earn money in the run-up to the Kentucky Derby. The games runs from February 13 to April 17, which is when the run-up to the Kentucky Derby occurs. The winner of the fantasy derby receives roundtrip airfare and accommodations for two to the 2010 Kentucky Derby plus tickets to the Kentucky Derby itself (you'll have to bring your own floppy hat, though). The ... Read More

There is only one game left in the NFL season (sorry, the Pro Bowl does not count) and all eyes will be on the Saints and Colts in Miami. Some fantasy players are clinging to the last bits of the extended fantasy football season as they complete their fantasy nfl playoff leagues. If you are hoping to get one last bit of fantasy football during the Super Bowl, I came across a couple of options for fantasy Super Bowl games that you may want to look into. RotoPlay's Fantasy Super Bowl - Top Prize of $1000 and ... Read More

How is your Friday going? Mine has been quite delightful so far, to be honest. I have been catching up on reading today, and I came across a few articles that you may just enjoy: Things to Watch for the 2010 Fantasy Football Season, Part One (Fantasy Football) - If you thought it was too early to start thinking about the 2010 fantasy football season, you are sorely mistaken. Not only are some fantasy players contemplating who they might want to draft, there is at least one player out there is developing strategies and determining trends. Rating ... Read More

In January 2009, OneSeason announced that it closed a financing round of $3.5M. In December 2009, OneSeason shut its doors, $3.5M later. The $3.5M investment was made by Charles River Ventures which is a firm with a very successful track record (heard of Twitter? yeah, that's in its portfolio). It was definitely not for a lack of experience or trying that it failed. Here is why OneSeason failed: Building a fantasy sports business is really hard. Building a multi-million dollar fantasy sports business is really, really hard. Throw in educating fantasy players to a whole new way ... Read More

Even though I am not at the FSTA winter conference this time around, that does not mean I do not have some good tidbits for you you as to what is occurring. Through the miracle of modern technology (in this case, Twitter), all sorts of fun tidbits are coming out from various sources. RotoWire cleaned up at the Fantasy Sports Writers Association annual awards by winning six awards. The producers from The League killed as keynote speakers. Also, the show was able to sell advertising space based purely on the show's subject content (fantasy sports). The big media ... Read More

XML Team announced late last night that it has acquired Fantasy Sports Scores. Based out of Canada, Fantasy Sports Services is a provider of fantasy games and fantasy content In the press release announcing the purchase of Fantasy Sports Services by XML Team, XML president Alex Karben said "This addition gives us even more quality sports content to offer our expanding client base, and helps us meet the needs of both our existing and potential clients in various media arenas." In other words, with this new acquisition, it gives XML Team the ability to be more ... Read More

Taking a break from regular posting to share where I stand on the AFC Championship Game. I really have not been this excited for a football game in a while, and it is all that I have been thinking about today. With that, I would like to give you the chanting stylings of Fireman Ed By the way, that clip was posted by YouTube user "IndianapolisColt." Even Colts fans are Jets fans. Read More