Very recently, the NHL shook up the classic idea of an All-Star game by doing something few fans saw coming: They brought fantasy hockey into reality. The NHLPA put out an announcement before the 2011 All-Star game that the teams would no longer be the classic East vs. West. Instead, two previously selected captains and their two assistants would work together to draft their teams from a pool of ...
The NHL All-Star game is arguably the most anticipated event of the weekend. Though hockey is a sport many people in America choose not to follow, it's really an amazing game. Whether you're a casual fan, a diehard fan or not a fan of the sport at all, it's difficult to ignore a weekend-long event that features the biggest and brightest stars in the NHL (save some of Ottawa's players, but that ...
Councilman Lew Fidler, who's currently running as the Democratic candidate in a high-profile special election for the New York State Senate, has a heavy background in rotisserie/fantasy sports: he ran the business for the folks who originally invented fantasy baseball and wrote the official rules for fantasy hockey. "I’m a big sports guy: Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers," Mr. Fidler explained to ...
Leafs' Joffrey Lupul and others involved in the NHL All-Star Draft proved that Twitter has added an entirely new dimension to All-Star fun.
The NFL season is over; however, don't tell that to ESPN! The network is already talking about who is going to win the Lombardy Trophy next year. Now, as an avid NFL fan, I don't mind listening to Mel Kiper , Jr. talk about draft strategy because that is actually timely and relevant. But I think that football fans would enjoy watching a hockey game over Skip Bayless' banter about Tim Tebow. The ...
With teams at the halfway point of the 2011-12 NHL season, Sports Network's Steve Schwarz takes a fantasy hockey look at who have played well above expectations and the overpriced underachievers.
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. , JAN. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Â CBSSports.com today announced its award-winning fantasy sports service is opening its doors to third party developers and companies to create apps for ...
The National Hockey League (NHL) set the table for its annual All-Star Game with a fantasy draft on Thursday but the light-hearted evening lost some of its glitter with the sport's biggest names not part of the fun.
Just like in old times, Michael Cammalleri is chatting away in the Calgary Flames dressing room while lovingly taping up a hockey stick
Reuters/Toronto The National Hockey League (NHL) set the table for its annual All-Star Game with a fantasy draft on Thursday but the light-hearted evening lost some of its glitter with the sport’s biggest names not part of the fun.
Hockey fans in the U.S. take what we can get when it comes to validation of our sport's popularity. We celebrate minimal upticks in television ratings that still put the NHL behind children's cartoon shows on cable. We beam when there's an NHL jersey or reference spotted in a mainstream sitcom or movie. We treat that Sports Illustrated cover story from nearly 20 years ago — "Why The NHL's Hot ...
As we speak, the NFL playoffs are coming to an end all too quickly. The traditional fantasy football season is long since over. We're in the doldrums of winter, and the Boys of Summer are still months from taking the field in anything other than exhibition form.
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When CBSSports.com launches its 2012 Fantasy Baseball league platform later this month, fans will have a whole slew of new tools to give them an edge against competitors.
MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The USA TODAY Sports Media Group announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Fantasy Sports Ventures (FSV) and Big Lead Sports, the largest independent ...
No Crosby, no Ovechkin means NHL event loses some of its glitter
The NHL has set the table for its All-Star Game with a draft but the evening lost some of its glitter with the absence of some big names.
Canada needs to build its own Facebooks and Googles. Reza Satchu is trying to meet that challenge, 36 kids at a time.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has declared that English football will continue to lead the fight against racism. A parliamentary inquiry into racism in sport has been scheduled for March 6 in response to the Luis Suarez case and allegations of racism against John Terry.
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