Matthew Berry revealed ESPN study once showed he was audience’s most ideal drinking buddy
"I scored the highest of any ESPN personality at the time as the guy you’d most like to have a beer with."
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Matthew Berry was once invited to Jay-Z’s fantasy football draft
"You don’t bring Jordan to a pick-up game!"
NBC Sports analyst Matthew Berry raises $2 million for Fantasy Life media company
“I have loved every second of the last year with the Fantasy Life team, bootstrapping our way to profitability and can’t wait to continue to build on that success."
Announcer Dave Flemming served as Giants batboy in fantasy football punishment
"I'm gonna be icing down after this."
Betr CEO Joey Levy talks launch of real-money Betr Picks fantasy vertical ‘to more fully capitalize on the nationwide media audience’
Underdog’s Tim Livingston talks ‘Gil’s Arena’ and ‘the perfect blend of analysis and humor’ Gilbert Arenas and Josiah Johnson bring
"We believe there's a big opportunity giving athletes with really interesting POVs—Steve Smith Sr., Rasheed, and Gilbert—a platform where they can be their authentic selves and not have to deal with the barriers and bureaucracy of traditional media."
Matthew Berry says Chris Berman ‘didn’t feel fantasy had a place’ on ESPN’s biggest NFL shows
"Who am I, some dumb kid, to say what should or should not be on those shows?"
An hour of Peacock’s ‘Fantasy Football Pregame With Matthew Berry’ will air on linear NBC owned-and-operated affiliates weekly
The last hour of Berry's weekly NFL pregame show, focused on fantasy and betting, is coming to NBC owned-and-operated linear affiliates.
Matthew Berry announces ESPN departure after 15 years
Berry's tenure at ESPN spanned a stretch that saw a sea change in the world of fantasy sports.
Mike Trout blames ESPN fantasy football for “confusion” during in-game interview on ESPN
"Ahh, I can't say that right now, it's the ESPN game."
ESPN will offer fantasy WNBA option for the first time
Considering ESPN's interest in growing the WNBA audience, this move feels overdue if anything.
Fake school Bishop Sycamore is now a top fantasy football team name, which is apropos
Over 10,000 teams are named for the "post-grad football academy" now.
FanDuel and the Associated Press partner on betting data deal
FanDuel gets exposure, while the AP gets cash for information they needed anyway.
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.
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.
