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College Football Fans Invited into Fantasy Sports World at CSTV.com; CSTV Fantasy College Football is New Online Destination.


NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Reaching out to millions of fantasy sports players across the country, CSTV CSTV College Sports Television
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 Networks, the only multimedia network fully dedicated to college sports, is launching its first season-long, league-style fantasy college football game for the upcoming 2005 season. Beginning this week, fans can register for free for CSTV Fantasy College Football at www.cstv.com/fantasy. CSTV's Fantasy College Football combines the challenge and entertainment of fantasy football Fantasy football can refer to:
  • Fantasy football (American)
  • Fantasy football (soccer)
  • Fantasy football (board games)
  • Fantasy Football League
  • Fantasy Football (Australian Rules)
 with fans' knowledge of and passion for college football. The key distinction with fantasy college football is that fans choose schools as opposed to individual players.

CSTV fans will enter a league and draft a roster of eight colleges drawing from all Division 1-A schools. Each week, fantasy fanatics will slot their schools into different statistical categories, controlling their fantasy fate by drafting and managing rosters, and competing against friends and other college football fans. Working with Leaderboard lead·er·board  
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A board that displays the leaders in a competition.


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a board displaying the current scores of the leading competitors, esp in a golf tournament
 Sports, CSTV Fantasy College Football allows fans to email commissioners for advice and answers, and gain access to draft kit items, rankings and weekly articles on game strategy and preparation.

As an additional element, The CSTV College Football Weekly Challenge will let fans enter a new game each week throughout the season, with the opportunity to win related prizes.

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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

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 the Fantasy Sports Trade Association The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter.
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, more than 15 million American adults have played fantasy sports in the past year, and 12 million more are expected to play fantasy football this fall. Fantasy sports have been around for 25 years, and represent a more than $1 billion industry.

About CSTV Networks

CSTV Networks is the only multimedia home of college sports, connecting alumni, students, parents, communities and fans to the most comprehensive coverage of college sports anywhere. CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and broadband content than any other company through several platforms including: College Sports TV, televising regular-season and championship events for 35 men's and women's college sports, from every major collegiate athletic conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the collegiate or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. ; CSTV.com, the number-one online destination for college sports, capturing fans' passion in a personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 broadband experience, while serving as the backbone for more than 200 official university athletic sites; GameTracker Live, which provides live coverage and statistics of more than 13,000 online events per year; and CSTV All-Access, a unique broadband subscription service that brings college sports fans even more comprehensive coverage of their favorite schools.

About Leaderboard Sports

LeaderboardSports.com LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 consists of over 150 fantasy experts from across the Internet, with the mission of delivering Fantasy Games for Fantasy Gamers created by Fantasy Gamers. Leaderboard Sports brings the gamer's perspective to design and support of fantasy games.
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