Fantasy sports widows — watch out
Posted July 18th, 2007 at 4:58 pm by Sandy Tam, Yahoo! Digital Home
7 Comments / Filed in: Cool Stuff, Video
Yahoo! has an innovative product on the market that makes fantasy baseball and football much more addictive — Yahoo! Sports for TV.
As an intern at Yahoo! and a fantasy football widow myself, I struggled with how I felt about this product. On the one hand, it’s an application that my fiancé and his friends would love. He could use it to watch live games, check his fantasy stats, and get game updates all on TV using his remote control. On the other hand, it would allow him to be a total couch potato and become fully immersed in his fantasy sports leagues.
Was this something I wanted him to know about?
After some soul searching, I decided I wanted to be the first to tell him about it (he’d find out sooner or later). As expected, he was really excited about it and loved that it’s free. Yes… FREE. All you need to get started is a TV, a Windows Media Center Edition PC, and about sixty seconds.
Judging by how excited my fiancé and his friends were, I knew there were other fantasy sports fans out there who would love to hear about this cool product. It’s available now for fantasy baseball and a new, enhanced version for fantasy football will be released later this year.
To see for yourself that Yahoo! Sports for TV is the coolest Yahoo! product you’ve never heard of, check out this (cheesy) video. Special props to Yahoos Ramsey Ksar, Larry Quinn, and Ken Quan for letting us turn them into beer-drinking stereotypes (and sorry about the hair, Larry).
Sandy Tam
Intern, Yahoo! Digital Home
7 Comments Add your own
Douglas | July 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
This is very cool and innovative. These are the types of products Yahoo need to come up with to turn their fortunes around. I can’t wait to try the football version. Congrats!
Brett | July 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Nice work…
allen | July 24th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
this seems like an extremely innovative and interactive way to participate in fantasy sports, though i take offense to calling yourself a “widow.”
Nan | November 5th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Yikes! Just what Basketball Widows, Football Widows and Baseball Widows of the world need…another distraction for sports fanatics.
Too bad Yahoo! hasn’t come up with something for the disenfranchised spouse and significant-other.
Nan-The Sports Widow
http://www.sportswidow.com
Satellite TV For Your PC | November 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Too bad Yahoo hasn’t come up with sports channels to watch the premiership games yet =/.
William Robert | July 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
A good news and Nice effort.Yahoo can extend games as like Basket ball,Base ball and other games.
Fantasy Football Draft Advice | August 19th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Very good, well said….
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