Online gambling site DraftKings told Re/code on Wednesday that it will expand its fantasy services beyond professional baseball and American football. Beginning next month, DraftKing users will be able to test their fantasy team management mettle in the rapidly-growing realm of eSports. I
Read More . . .The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) US college sports body has issued a warning to players, staff and media partners about the dangers of daily fantasy sports (DFS), despite this form of gaming having received backing from various sectors of the country's sports market.
Read More . . .The explosive popularity of fantasy sports has certainly caught the eye of many political bigwigs. This time, it's Massachusetts Attorney-General Maura Healey who has initiated a review on the legality of daily fantasy sports site DraftKings.
Read More . . .How to legislate the participation of collegiate athletes and staff in fantasy leagues turned into a hot-button topic Tuesday, as NCAA Division I athletic directors met in Dallas.
Read More . . .America's professional leagues talk about sheltering their sports and athletes from the dangers of gambling, but a New Jersey congressman says he suspects the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball are more interested in protecting profits than players.
Read More . . .Turn on your TV right now, and before you can count to 10, you probably will see a daily fantasy sports commercial. Fantasy sports is swallowing America, one daily draft at a time. Your Aunt Bess can do it — it's fun and, well, you can even play for free!
Read More . . .Last night Drew Harwell of the Washington Post published an article about the "daily fantasy sports" marketplace entitled "Move over, Budweiser : Football has a new advertising king.
Read More . . .There is a big boom in fantasy sports, especially in daily fantasy sports, thanks to DraftKings and FanDuel. Paul Charchian, chairman of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, said these two companies completely changed the landscape of fantasy sports in just a few years.
Read More . . .The average amount of actual game action over the course of a three-hour broadcast of an N.F.L. game is about 11 minutes. Fans watching the first week of this season's games might have been struck by how much of the rest of the broadcast was filled by advertisements for the hottest product in the sports industry: daily fantasy sports games.
Read More . . .If you spend it, they will come. DraftKings, which was the No. 1 advertiser on TV last week, spending $21.8 million on roughly 5,800 commercials in the seven days ended Sept. 10, said Tuesday the furious outlay of cash in September resulted in them signing up more than 1 million new fantasy sport players.
Read More . . .Fan Duel and DraftKings are having a heyday nowadays, because something great came around before the start of the 2015 NFL season. Google had silently granted its approval to the two-leading daily fantasy sport (DFS) betting operators, to offer full-feature sports betting app at the Play Store.
Read More . . .Daily fantasy sports operators (DFS) could be set to face their first major legal challenge in the US after a ranking member of an influential House of Representatives committee requested a hearing about the relationship between fantasy sports and gambling.
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