A Maryland lawmaker will introduce a bill this year that would allow the state's sports fans to brag a little more openly about winning their fantasy leagues. Delegate John A. Olszewski Jr. will sponsor a bill in this year's General Assembly to explicitly legalize pay-to-play fantasy sports leagues - in which entrants build teams of real-life players and compete against one another for cash or prizes, with outcomes determined by the players' real-life statistical performances.
By Krista Jahnke Detroit Free Press
An estimated 16 million Americans pay to participate in online fantasy sports leagues, scouting real players, drafting teams and trying to win championships and prizes. But are they gambling? Charles E. Humprey Jr. is betting they are. Humphrey, a business lawyer who specializes in gambling law, is the lone plaintiff in a suit that could turn the $1.5 billion industry on its ear.
On a planet where anyone with a cell phone can pretend to be Spielberg, the good-quality stuff stands out even more. Texas has a collection of official university clips at its video homepage (http://tinyurl.com/cybersports4) featuring the next-best thing to James Earl Jones doing the voiceovers: Walter Cronkite. As you have mentioned on more than one occasion, you'd rather eat dirt than participate in fantasy sports. Geez, you don't even like real sports that much, much less fake ones. Still, you thought it was worthwhile to note that one of the odder fantasy sports leagues is kicking off fantasy car racing at SportingNews.com.
CBS Corp.'s Internet unit won the right to use NFL's players' names and statistics for free in fantasy sports leagues it sponsors after a judge ruled the information is in the public domain. A federal appeals court decision in 2007 that companies operating fantasy leagues have a First Amendment right to use names and data of baseball players without paying a licensing fee applies to football as well, U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery said in Minneapolis. - The Denver Broncos' crowded backfield has become a bit clearer with the release of third-year tailback Selvin Young.
I've been playing in fantasy sports leagues for 20 years, and it's not unusual to witness something wacky that happens to alter the complexion of a season like an injury or a completely unknown player emerging as a star. This fantasy football season, however, which kicked off with the Giants-Redskins game on Thursday and goes into full swing with Sunday's full schedule, I'm sensing more weird karma than usual. I'm talking about something that could change the complexion of the entire fantasy football season.
The nationwide obsession with fantasy sports leagues long ago reached the press box. Conversations among writers at NFL games involve players around the league as much as they do the ones in the game the writers are watching. But it only makes sense that reporters would want control of their own football team -- the rest of the world is doing it too. Fantasy sports let the fan be the general manager and that's the exciting part because they can select the team and make the trades," said Chris Russo, the CEO of Fantasy Sports Ventures, a marketing and media company focused on fantasy sports. Russo, the former head of new media for the NFL, left in 2006 to start the company that aggregates more than 450 independent sports Internet sites through the portal site www.fantasyplayers.com
There's a great game on the Internet called "Fantasy Congress," developed by four students at Claremont McKenna College. It's similar to those fantasy sports leagues that are all the rage. But instead of drafting sports stars and scoring points based on how they perform, you pick a team of lawmakers and score points based on how successfully they legislate on Capitol Hill.
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