Fanball Launches The Godfather of Fantasy Sports Blog

Two days in a row, I've found interesting press releases on the home page of PRWeb.com.

Fanball.com has launched The Godfather of Fantasy Sports, a blog by fantasy sports pioneer and icon Charlie Wiegert.

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 -- Fanball.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, today announced the launch of The Godfather of Fantasy Sports, The Blog of Charlie Wiegert. Wiegert is Fanball's vice president of sales and marketing. Wiegert's blog discusses the fantasy sports industry, Fanball fantasy sports games and all things fantasy sports.

Read the rest of the Fanball.com press release at PRWeb.

Baseball makes life better, somehow...

Earlier this evening, I watched the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves tonight in the U.S. season opener for Major League Baseball. The new ballpark in D.C. looked awesome. I can't wait to go there for a game.

I also just finished loading up my free fantasy baseball team. Can't afford the expensive versions on Fanball.com this year.

Opening week for baseball just means something for me. Something extra. It means a chance to think of all the minor league games I used to go to with my grandfather, all the spring training games with my dad and the rush of fantasy baseball drafts at the last minute since my first team almost 20 years ago.

Tracking stats for individual players on a daily basis keeps you involved in all aspects of baseball, not just one team. However, I do plan to follow the Rays as much as possible this season. The young stars, the kick ass attitude and the talk of a new stadium in St. Pete, might make it worthwhile.

Hopefully this will be a good start to the week. April really needs to bring good things.

Searching for Fantasy Sports Affiliate Programs

Last year, I joined the CDM Sports affiliate program, just as it died. I never received my commission and they haven't updated the affiliate page since March 07. I did some searching on Google and ABestWeb this week but all I could find was the HeySportsFans affiliate program.

I did find one promising program on CJ. I wasn't aware USA Today was offering a bounty on new customers for its Sports Weekly. I've been reading it since the first edition of Baseball Weekly came out, many years ago.





But why don't the major fantasy sports companies use affiliate or CPA to find new customers? CDM was supposed to pay out $6 per new customer. That's not great, but its something. I would think that this is an opportunity for Fanball.com or CBS Sports, ESPN, RotoWorld or even Yahoo to find new customers.