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By Brandon on Monday, August 11, 2008. Comment on this post

Facebook and famous card-counter enter the fantasy football league market

Watch out Yahoo and ESPN (and even FleaFlicker!), there's another fantasy football league website in town, this one having the unique concept of being built into Facebook. Jeff Ma, one of the MIT card counters that inspired the book Bringing Down the House (which is a great book by the way) and the movie "21", along with business partner Mike Kerns, have created the company Citizen Sports, Inc., and convinced Sports Illustrated to put its name on the product. The fact that it is a downloadable application on the new Facebook means it will automatically have a potential audience of millions, so there is a big chance that this could succeed...but we'll have to wait and see if it really challenges the big boys any time soon. (More, including a couple screenshots, after the jump...)

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Willis McGahee and Bobby Engram out for a while with injuries

I had originally buried this news in my latest update on the preseason games over the weekend, but I figured it was important enough to break out into it's own post, so here you go...

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Fantasy football notes from the weekend

Here are some fantasy football thoughts regarding the preseason games that took place on Saturday...

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