CBSSports.com Opens Up Fantasy News & Information Site for Entire Industry to
Use
Award-winning CBSSports.com fantasy news, analysis and data now open for all
players to access; First major fantasy sports developer to create an
information-only destination
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- CBSSports.com today launched
a news and information site specifically geared to the world of fantasy
sports, giving fantasy players around the world open access to the most
coveted analysis and data in the business. CBSSports.com Fantasy News
represents the first time a major developer of fantasy sports products has
built a site designed solely for news and information and made it available to
the public, regardless of what fantasy sports provider they use.
CBSSports.com Fantasy News will allow fantasy players from across the
industry to consume information and analysis from the entire team of
award-winning CBSSports.com fantasy sports writers as well as from
CBSSports.com national columnists and senior writers. CBSSports.com Fantasy
News will be a stand-alone destination that will also be heavily linked across
CBSSports.com and other CBS Interactive sites when applicable.
CBSSports.com Fantasy News will be located at fantasynews.cbssports.com.
"The content around our fantasy products has always been a huge reason why
our fantasy customers have been incredibly loyal to our brand and why our
service continues to win numerous awards," said Jason Kint, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, CBSSports.com & CBSNews.com. "CBSSports.com
Fantasy News now brings this abundance of fantasy news and information out,
front and center, for the entire world of fantasy fanatics to read and
consume, giving us a leadership position in both the product and information
side of the business."
CBSSports.com Fantasy News will cover eight different sports (see full
list below), giving users around the world free access to exclusive player
updates, columns, breaking news and blogs. CBSSports.com Fantasy News will
also allow users to tap into an enormous amount of data-mining information
from the CBSSports.com base of users, the most engaged and passionate fantasy
players in the industry. From the most added/most dropped players to draft
averages to the most traded players, visitors to CBSSports.com Fantasy News
will be served hundreds of statistical breakdowns.
New for this football season, CBSSports.com Fantasy News will offer a mock
Fantasy Football draft product free of charge to all users, allowing players
the best tool available as they prepare for their upcoming drafts. With 12
mock drafts every 30 minutes, CBSSports.com has a mock draft constantly
available for players as they gear up for draft day. CBSSports.com Fantasy
writers will randomly join mock drafts each day, allowing users to sharpen
their drafting skills against the top experts in the business.
As is the case with the entire suite of CBSSports.com Fantasy products,
CBSSports.com Fantasy News will feature a video player on the homepage. Hosted
by Jason Horowitz and Amber Wilson and featuring guests such as CBSSports.com
Fantasy writers, the exclusive CBSSports.com Fantasy sports programming
segments will give viewers timely, in-depth news, strategy and advice.
CBSSports.com Fantasy News will cover pro football, college football, pro
basketball, college basketball, baseball, hockey, golf & auto racing.
Additionally, CBSSports.com today launched their suite of products for the
2008 Fantasy Football season. As always, the flagship product for
CBSSports.com this Fantasy Football season is the Fantasy Football
Commissioner. The most customizable product on the market and one able to
handle leagues with up to 20 teams with premium features such as live scoring
for no additional cost, the CBSSports.com Commissioner product has won every
Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) award for best Fantasy Commissioner
Product since the association was founded in 1997.
CBSSports.com will also offer a large variety of Premium Fantasy Football
Games, Free Fantasy Football, "College Fantasy Football" and the Office Pool
Manager.
CBSSports.com Fantasy CBSSports.com
Sports Writers Columnists & Writers
Ross Devonport Dennis Dodd (Senior Writer, College Football)
Jamey Eisenberg Larry Dobrow (Contributing Writer, Baseball)
David Gonos Gregg Doyel (National Columnist)
Sergio Gonzalez Steve Elling (Senior Writer, Golf)
Michael Hurcomb Mike Freeman (National Columnist)
Eric Mack Wes Goldstein (Staff Writer, Hockey)
Peter Madden Clark Judge
(Managing Editor) (Senior Writer, Pro Football)
Al Melchior Danny Knobler
(Contributor) (Senior Writer, Baseball)
Dave Richard Scott Miller (Senior Writer, Baseball)
Scott White Gary Parrish (Senior Writer, College Basketball)
Pete Pistone (Contributor, Auto Racing)
Pete Prisco (Senior Writer, Pro Football)
About CBSSports.com
CBSSports.com is at the leading edge of media companies providing Internet
sports content, Fantasy sports and e-commerce. CBSSports.com is a member of
the CBS family and a part of CBS Interactive. Formerly known as CBS
SportsLine.com, in August of 2007 the company changed its name to
CBSSports.com. The change marked the evolution of the company into a
multi-platform brand offering premier broadcast, online and mobile sports
content. The change to CBSSports.com gives advertisers the ability to
associate with the CBS Sports brand and reach sports fans no matter where they
are, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
For more information about CBSSports.com and for the latest sports news,
scores and expert analysis, please visit cbssports.com.
More information about CBS and its businesses is available at
www.cbscorporation.com.
SOURCE CBSSports.com
Alex Riethmiller of CBSSports.com, +1-954-489-4235, ariethmiller@cbs.com
