Fantasy

Illustrative of how the fantasy game has changed, a cherished running back who graced my lineup likely would not even be drafted nowadays.

When new sports betting law went into effect on July 1, it could have shut out DFS platforms, but two biggest partnered and got licensed.

A determined push by the fantasy sports industry to amend several provisions in a proposed Florida bill may have played a role in its delay.

If a legislature declares that a certain activity does not qualify as gambling, is that enough to ensure its legality?

A major sports betting conference in New Jersey this week further shows that DFS, once the hit thing, now is playing sidekick.

Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) are coming to the Bayou State after residents in most of the state’s 64 parishes voted in favor of a ballot initiative to allow residents of those parishes to play in online DFS contests. According to the Times-Picayune, 47 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes voted in favor of legalizing online DFS contests, with most of those against it located in north Louisiana, while most areas in the...

Voters in six states will decide issues related to gaming during the mid-term elections on Tuesday, but only two will consider measures directly related to sports betting and daily fantasy sports. Arkansans will have the opportunity to issue casino licenses to four casinos across the state, and those casinos could then offer gaming, including sports betting. In Louisiana, voters will decide whether or not to legalize daily fantasy sports games,...

In an agreement announced on Monday at ProFootballTalk, FanDuel will operate retail, online and mobile sports betting services for The Greenbrier Resort, located in southeastern West Virginia. This means that coupled with its partnership with The Meadowlands Racetrack in northern New Jersey, the combination of Paddy Power Betfair and FanDuel, the second-largest daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform, will have established sports betting presences in two of the first five states...

What's been long speculated is now confirmed: Daily fantasy sports frontrunner DraftKings is seeking to enter the legal sports betting business. In a press release on Monday, the Boston-headquartered company announced the hiring of Sean Hurley as its "head of sportsbook" to "build, launch and drive the sports betting vertical at DraftKings." This comes at a time when the daily fantasy industry is flagging and DraftKings has yet to become...

At the Web Summit in Portugal this week, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins discussed the NFL season, the Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) operators’ acquisition of EuroLeague basketball streaming rights, plus he mentioned one other gigantic opportunity that would swallow everything else whole. According to Bloomberg’s Eben Novy-Williams (as well as Edward Ludlow and Jackie Simmons): “Robins says his company would consider its options, including becoming a sportsbook, if the U.S. were...