Quantcast

Fantasy Sports

In This Guide

More Guides Under Fantasy Sports

Most Popular

  1. On This Day: The Great Anticipation Becomes the Great Disappointment

  2. Becoming Maurice Sendak: A Children’s Author Grows Up

  3. Harnessing Open Source Intelligence: Social Media and the CIA

  4. On This Day: White Boston Man Kills Pregnant Wife, Blames Imaginary Black Man

  5. Study Highlights the High Costs of the Death Penalty

  6. On This Day: Terry Fox’s “Marathon of Hope” Comes to an End

  7. Is Marathon Running Dangerous?

  8. Many US Schools Consider Four-Day School Week

  9. 5 Animals We Need to Survive

  10. On This Day: Witold Pilecki Allows Himself to Be Captured by the Nazis

null

Sports

This guide will show you the best sources for news, analysis, blogs, fantasy games, tickets, equipment and playing tips. For more in-depth sports coverage, see one of our sport-specific guides in the right hand menu.

Sports News, Stats and Analysis

The Web makes it easy to stay on top of the sports world’s most significant games, players ... read more »

Sports Blogs

Sports blogs offer you a unique, unabridged perspective on players, teams and games. Well-written ... read more »

Fantasy Sports

If you catch yourself muttering, "Man, they should have traded that bum ages ago!" all too frequently, you may be well suited for the world of fantasy sports. In a fantasy game, you, the manager, draft, trade, and sign players for your team and compete with other teams based on your players' real-world statistics.

Dulcinea's Insight

  • When signing up for fantasy sports you have a number of options. You can choose to create leagues from scratch and limit entry to friends of your choice, join pay leagues for advanced features and functionality, join public leagues, join pay leagues and compete for cash prizes, and more.
  • Sports simulation games work differently from a typical fantasy game in that they depend entirely on how a player has performed and not how his is going to perform.
  • The official Web sites of professional leagues often offer fantasy games, though they usually lack the depth and sophistication of fantasy-specific sites.

Dulcinea's Picks

For general fantasy pages …
Yahoo Yahoo has one of the oldest free fantasy sports services around. The site offers games for professional baseball, football, basketball, hockey, golf, and NASCAR. Yahoo! continues to be a fantasy leader because its service is easy to use, and gives players freedom to really customize the structure of their league, so that season after season the games will seem fresh and interesting.
go to site »
ESPN.com offers a slightly larger variety of fantasy games than Yahoo!, which is where its service excels. In addition to offering fantasy games for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey fans, soccer fans have the option of joining or creating fantasy leagues based on the British Premiership, La Liga, or Mexican Soccer. Other games include arena football, poker, fishing, and stock car racing.
go to site »
CBS Sportsline has both free and fee fantasy games for the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and golf. There are also links with fantasy-relevant news for each league.
go to site »
SportingNews offers fantasy games for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, golf, car racing, and Major League Soccer. For most sports this site gives players the opportunity to join free leagues with the chance of winning cash prizes.
go to site »
For fantasy sports research, analysis, and advice …
RotoWorld is a massive fantasy sports site that provides valuable player news for the MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL, NASCAR, golf, college football, and college basketball. News is arranged according to what's fantasy-relevant for each sport: for baseball, you can browse player news, read league headlines, check injury updates, monitor transactions, and review contracts and depth charts.
go to site »
For simulation games ...
What if Sports lets you create a team of all-time players and complete a simulated season against teams created by other users for $9.95. It is available for MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college basketball and football. You can also choose to simulate a game between two teams from any era and see the box score and play-by-play.
go to site »
Back to Top

Buying Sports Tickets

Buying tickets to sporting events online is quick, convenient, and safe. This means no more lines ... read more »

Coaching and Improving at Sports

If you mistakenly thought that The Bad News Bears was a documentary about your team, you read more »

Buying Equipment and Team Apparel

If you're not sponsored or haven't signed that prestigious endorsement deal yet, you'll need to buy ... read more »

Sports Memorabilia

As the focal point of a game room, a historical artifact, a piece of art, or a souvenir to mark a ... read more »

Most Recent Guides

The 1960s United States
1950s United States and the Cold War
The Great Depression and the New Deal