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Suggestive Hockey Pools
by Alanah McGinley on 10/04/08 at 03:34 PM ET
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To quote the friend who sent me the Yahoo! Sports/NHL mailer down below, “Looks like Yahoo Sports is doing a different kind of “fantasy hockey” this season!”
Seriously. Judge for yourself:
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Tags: alex+ovechkin,
fantasy+hockey,
hockey+pools,
media,
yahoo+sports
Canucks Stuff: News and Fantasy Troubles
by Alanah McGinley on 09/09/08 at 05:24 PM ET
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A trail of stories…
Parenting Tip: Ryan Kesler promises to vent his rage on the ice not against his baby daughter. Says Kesler: “Now I might be a little more pesty on the ice and take out some of my frustrations if [Makayla] won’t stop crying in the middle of the night.”
Pavol Demitra, “Offensive juggernaut”? Sure, I’ll bite, but I still won’t count on him for more than about 55 games a year. I don’t care how healthy he feels right now, the dude is the Slovak equivalent of Sami Salo.
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Tags: daniel+sedin,
fantasy+hockey,
henrik+sedin,
mattias+ohlund,
pavol+demitra,
ryan+kessler
Your Hockey Pool is Safe
by Alanah McGinley on 06/08/08 at 03:02 PM ET
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Last week, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from MLB and its players’ union, to hear their case arguing that their statistics were proprietary, and that players names and numbers in the sport were exclusively their property.
Why does this matter? Well, the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case was good news for fantasy sports fans, and especially the fantasy sport industry itself—a $500,000 a year, profit-making machine. By refusing to revisit the case, the Court was maintaining previous rulings that said—in essence—the statistics of professional sports are public domain. Fantasy sports sites can make use of that material without interference or added licensing costs. (Check out the Wall Street Journal for their hypothetical “Doomsday Scenario” if the Court had favored MLB…)
Anyway, the hockey bloggers at Illegal Curve drew their own short analysis of that court decision, as it applies to the NHL:
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