Yahoo Sports is launching premium subscription product Yahoo Fantasy Plus, and adding a video “Draft Together” interface
Yahoo's next foray into subscription products comes in fantasy sports.
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FanDuel Group CMO Mike Raffensperger talks signing Kenny Smith to a content partnership, including a new Over/Under NBA on TNT game
Smith will play a key role in the Over/Under game FanDuel is launching, which will be a part of NBA on TNT broadcasts each Tuesday and Thursday.
Evan Silva announces he’s leaving Rotoworld/NBC after 13 years
Could The Athletic be calling?
One of DraftKings’ future goals is to air NFL games
DraftKings airing the NFL? That's one lofty goal.
CBS Sports HQ to air seven-hour Labor Day fantasy football telethon, with former NFL players taking fans’ calls
James Jones, Mike Sims-Walker, Beanie Wells, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, LenDale White, Santana Moss and Lee Evans will be answering fan calls live on-air.
Mike Francesa seems to invent daily fantasy sports, to the delight of DraftKings
MLB and the NBA are reportedly discussing selling their equity in DraftKings and FanDuel
The leagues' exit might make regulation easier for daily fantasy, but might also raise questions about its future.
“You’re going to get smarter about looking at sports”: Chad Millman on moving to The Action Network from ESPN
"If I was ever going to leave ESPN, which I really wasn’t that interested in doing, it was going to be to do this content, this business."
Thanks to an app shift, ESPN’s seeing record numbers for 14 of 15 fantasy products
ESPN has nearly doubled its unique fantasy users over the last four years, and more than half of that growth came in the last year following a shift to a single fantasy app.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter is doing a FanDuel “series” of under-60-second scripted segments
"We believe we can reach consumers just as effectively, and sometimes more effectively, with social video as compared with TV [advertising]."
Good Morning Football dug up an amazing 1988 NFL Films feature on fantasy football
The cast of NFL Network’s Good Morning Football have come up with some remarkably hilarious things since their August...
FanDuel has walked away from DraftKings merger after FTC challenge
The FTC challenged the merger because it claims it will create a monopoly, and FanDuel might not be up for that fight.
FTC announces plans to block the proposed FanDuel-DraftKings merger
The new company would make up 90% of the market share; Mark Cuban weighs in.
