THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013
PAGE 11
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"One frightening marker for our economy is that 30 percent of fantasy footballers manager their teams while on office computers."
LEIGH STEINBERG FORBES
FACT OF THE DAY
In 2010, it was estimated by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association that 32 million people aged twelve and above in the US and Canada played fantasy sports.
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Forbes
Q: Who started fantasy sports?
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
ERS
A: Sportswriters
THE MORNING BREW When fantasy becomes reality
fantasy. Football. When these tw
When these two words are separated, they do not have much in common past the fact that they both begin with the letter "F". But when these two words are written together they form one of the world's largest growing hobbies: Fantasy Football. It's a pretty simple concept: people create leagues, leagues have drafts, teams select players and players earn you points.
Sounds easy on the surface. Yet to someone like myself who truly loves and breathes fantasy football, it is a five-month journey with as many ups and downs as the roller coasters at Six Flags.
According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, nearly 32 million people compete in fantasy sports, with 90 percent participating in fantasy football. It's calculated that there is a 60 percent increase in participation since 2008.
Fantasy football has a wide variety of participants. There are the 12-year-old boys who are just getting into football and then there are 50-year-old men who have been bleeding their team colors for nearly
half a century. That is what's so great about fantasy football. It reaches out to millions of different kinds of people.
There are leagues on ESPN.com, Yahoo.com, CBS.com and many more. There are free leagues, paid leagues, public leagues and private leagues. There are snake drafts, auction drafts and fixed drafts. There are Standard leagues, Two-Quarterback leagues and Points-PerReception Leagues. There is something for every kind of fan in the fantasy football world.
Now, these are just the "X's and O's" of fantasy football, there is so much more to it. Fantasy football does a great job of
combining fun and entertainment with enormous amounts of stress and misfortune. One wrong move on draft day can truly ruin your entire season.
This happened to me in 2011 when I drafted Jamaal Charles with the 4 went down with a season-ending injury in week two - thanks Chiefs. This injury sent me into a whirlwind of trade proposals and desperate waiver wire acquisitions.
The selection of one player could end your season before it even starts. This is why there is so much time and preparation put into fantasy sports. I begin planning for the next fantasy season as the Super Bowl clock strikes zero. There are player evaluations to be read, matchups to be analyzed and injuries to dissect. Fantasy Football is an all-year job. If you truly want to be a champion it takes just about as much dedication as a job or school.
Fantasy Football is a hobby, it's a pastime, and for some, it can even be an addiction. But it is something that has become a worldwide craze. It is a way for people to
young child grows up wanting to be a professional athlete, or a head coach, or wanting to own their own sports franchise. Fantasy Football allows us to live out that dream and make our own decisions in the sports world. We can truly connect to the game and interact with it on a far deeper level beyond just being a spectator.
For me, Fantasy Football is a continuation of my love and passion for the world of sports.
—Edited by Duncan McHenry
This week in athletics
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Guthrie leads Royals in decisive victory over Myers' Rays
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals' Jeremy Guthrie held down Wil Myers and the Tampa Bay Rays over five innings and Kansas City rolled to an 11-1 victory Monday in the makeup of a snowed-out game from early May.
Guthrie (13-10) allowed six hits and three walks but twice delivered timely strikeouts. He fanned Kelly Johnson with two aboard to end the third inning, and then struck out David Dejesus on a called third strike to leave the
Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer and finished with fourRBIs. Billy Butler homered and drove in three, and Mike Mous-
bases loaded in the fourth.
Rays manager Joe Maddon argued that the call and was tossed by plate umpire Greg Gibson. Jeremy Hellickson (10-8) allowed five runs in just 2-2-3 innings for Tampa Bay. It 0was the struggling righthander's shortest start since June 30, 2012, when he went the same distance in a game against Detroit before getting pelted in the leg by a line drive.
It seemed like a season ago when the teams first tried to play. The
takas also drove in a pair as the Royals won their second straight following a seven-game slide in which their biggest problem was scoring runs.
James Loney drove in the only run for the Rays, who no doubt rued having to make the quick trip to Kansas City in the midst of a six-game homestand. They began the day a game back of the Red Sox in the AL East and lead the American League wild-card standings.
temperature was 41 degrees with a wind chill of 21 at first pitch on May 2, and Kauffman Stadium resembled a snow globe by the fourth inning as flurries fell. The game called with the Royals leading 1-0.
It was 93 degrees at first pitch
Monday, making for a 52-degree
difference from the original date.
Sunny skies and a slight breeze
meet it even warmer.
The biggest subplot to the game wasn't the weather, though, but the return of Myers to Kansas City. The former minor league player of
the year was the key to a seven-player trade last December that netted the Royals starting pitchers James Shields and Wade Davis.
Myers hadn't played at the K since the All-Star Futures Game in 2012, when he went 2 for 4 and drove in the three runs. He didn't fare nearly as well against big league pitching, either: He went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts, slamming his bat down after a pop out in the fifth inning.
The Royals struck first on Butler's RBI single in the first, but they didn't really break through until
the third inning. Three straight hits and a walk scored two runs, a sacrifice fly added another, and Justin Maxwell's RBI single helped drive Hellickson from the game. Hellickson fell to 0-5 in his last six starts. He's made it through five innings once.The Royals tacked on five more runs in the sixth against the Tampa Bay bullpen, highlighted by Perez's three-run shot. That was more than enough help for the Royals' relief corps, which put together four shutout innings to end Guthrie's three-game losing streak.
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