An amended bill that would legalize and regulate fantasy sports in Illinois is one step closer to becoming law, despite strong opposition from other gambling stakeholders and the Illinois Gaming Board.
Whether or not lawmakers consider fantasy sports to be gambling will determine how products are designed in the future and the technological burden placed on operators to ensure compliance with newly-enacted laws.
What if a daily fantasy sports operator figured out a way to generate a strong user base, without requiring participants to pay an entry fee, and still earn a profit? Virtual currency could hold the answer.
We asked our Board of Directors, our Committees, and a few of our Hall of Famers the following question–and while a few of them had a hard time sticking to one sentence (talk about passion!) here’s what a few of them came up with: How would you describe what fantasy sports means to you (in […]
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Spring training is underway, and for millions of baseball fans that means it’s time to start over-analyzing players and stats to fill their not-real, totally-made-up team rosters. Welcome to a new season of fantasy baseball. Today, fantasy sports is a multibillion-dollar industry. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, 56.8 million people played in some […]
DraftKings is stepping up for the good of the industry and will be covering hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid player balances and unfulfilled charitable donations from shuttered daily fantasy site FantasyHub.
With less than a month until the first pitch of the baseball season, SportsHub Technologies, an upstart player in the fantasy sports and eSports industries, has completed the acquisition of RG Ventures, LLC assets.
FSTA is excited to announce the addition of Greg Ambrosius, Thomas Knapp, Guy Lake, Rob Pythian, Digger Turnbull, and Rick Wolf to its Board of Directors. “I’m ecstatic about the energy these individuals will bring to our board, ” says Megan Van Petten, FSTA Executive Director. “Their participation will enhance our footprint within the community, increase our […]
Serial entrepreneur, investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently wrote an Op-Ed that appeared in USA Today laying out the case for why he is investing in fantasy sports and why the industry will prevail.