Hey all,

According to NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora, San Francisco 49ers’ star running back Frank Gore is done the the 2010 NFL season with a fractured hip, and is likely to be placed on season-ending injured reserve.

Gore’s likely replacement in the starting lineup will be the ageless wonder, veteran running back Brian Westbrook, while rookie back Anthony Dixon is likely to help share some of the load.

If you own Frank Gore in fantasy football, this is terrible news, and in many leagues, could be the nail in the coffin for your fantasy team. If you’re still in the hunt with good running back depth, kudos to you, but if not, we here at Fantazzle would like to reach out and remind you of our excellent weekly fantasy football games, heading into Week 13.

With our fantasy football games, injuries don’t impact you, as you have the opportunity to draft a new fantasy lineup each and every week, and on top of this, you have the option of competing against fellow fantasy football enthusiasts for cash prizes. Check out any number of our weekly games, and look out for our SuperStakes Sundays Playoff Game, which will be running through Weeks 14-16, allowing fantasy users to compete for huge cash prize pools!

Love fantasy football, but don’t have the money to compete in a high stakes event? No problem! Just play our cheaper entry fee games that range from $5-$50, where you can win each week without putting a ton of money on the line.

And if that doesn’t meet your needs, there’s always the FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football game, which is run every single week, while awarding cash prizes to the top three finishers each week!

Don’t let major injuries drag your fantasy season down. Take hold of your fantasy football fortunes, as many other owners have, and laugh at major injuries to Tony Romo, Dallas Clark, Ryan Grant, Matthew Stafford, and now Frank Gore. At Fantazzle, you are always in control. Simply pick your game type, league size, and entry fee, and select the roster of fantasy studs and sleepers that you think will perform the best!

Also, if you’re signed up in one of our Season Long fantasy football games here at Fantazzle, remember to adjust your lineups and take Frank Gore out for Week 13 and going forward.

Good luck to all who play fantasy football games at Fantazzle this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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The countdown has officially begun, as our Refer Friends Contest comes to an end at midnight tonight, November 15th, 2010. If you haven’t taken advantage of this excellent contest, it’s not too late! You still have until 11:59 pm ET tonight to refer friends and earn points toward playing fantasy sports games. Even better, for every friend that you refer that desposits cash at Fantazzle, you get $5 free!

Check the Refer Friends Contest page for all the other details and ways to earn points!

Play the FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football Game!

The end of the 2010 fantasy football season is inching closer and closer, which means you only have a handful of weeks left to participate in our 100% FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge game. Our Ray Rice game is a weekly fantasy football game that awards cash prizes to the top three finishers every week!

But that’s not the best part. Every time you play, you get a chance to be thrown into our Week 16 Grand Prize contest for the Ray Rice game. All you have to do is finish among the top 10 in a game in any given week, and you’re entered into the final Ray Rice game of the year!

Get into the fantasy football action now if you’ve missed out on it to this point already, and reap the benefits of this awesome free game!

Mini SuperStakes Fantasy Basketball

We are already knee deep in the 2010 fantasy basketball season, and if weekly and daily fantasy basketball hasn’t been enough for you, prepare to have the stakes raised a bit with more fantasy basketball action!

Our Mini SuperStakes Basketball game is going to allow our fantasy community to play for a huge prize pool, while keeping entry fees fairly low. This allows a bigger field, at a cheaper price, as well as a great cash prize for the top finishers! Play our regular daily and weekly fantasy basketball games to hone your skills, and be on the lookout for our next SuperStakes game. And while you’re waiting, feel free to check out our SuperStakes Contests page, showcasing all of our great high stakes fantasy sports games!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey everyone,

With just three days left in our Refer Friends Contest, time is running out on all of the great opportunities for our fantasy community members to earn FanStock and cash!

If you haven’t started referring friends yet, don’t worry, as you still have until November 15th, 2010 to earn points and cash. And remember, for every friend that you refer that signs up and makes a deposit, you earn $5! For more details on the Refer Friends Contest, just visit our friend referral contest page. Start earning free points and cash today!

Play the FREE Ray Rice Game

If a friend referral contest isn’t enough for our members, we encourage you to take advantage of our 100% FREE Ray Rice fantasy football challenge game. This game is sponsored by Baltimore Ravens star running back Ray Rice, is played every single week, and awards cash prizes to the top three finishers each week!

Even better, is that every time you finish in the top 10 of the Ray Rice game, you earn a spot in the Week 16 Grand Prize Contest for the Ray Rice game. Play this free game every week for your chance at great cash prizes!

Hit the Ice or Hit the Courts

Last, but certainly not least, we want to remind all of our members that we’re well underway in both fantasy basketball and fantasy hockey. Both fantasy sports have daily and weekly fantasy games going on every day and week. The daily games are played anytime there are at least 3 scheduled NBA/NHL games, and the weekly games are played every single week.

Play for free, or pay to play and win cash prizes. Like always with our short duration games, pick who you want, when you want, and choose your league size and entry fee.

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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The mid-point of the 2010 NFL season has arrived, and we felt it was once again time to remind you about our SuperStakes Sundays Contest. We also wanted to take a second to congratulate one of our community members for winning the Week 8 SuperStakes Sundays game. User BJBJBJ finished with 137 points (25 more than the next player), and took home the first place prize of $1,000!

While BJBJBJ was the big winner in Week 8, this week brings yet another chance for someone else (you) to step forward and stifle the competition en route to the top spot in our SuperStakes Sundays fantasy football game. Our high stakes fantasy football game is played every single week and awards over $1,000 in cash prizes. Play now for your shot at the huge cash prize!

Also, remember that if the $200 entry fee is too steep for you to play the regular SuperStakes Sundays game, there are always our SuperStakes Satellite games, as well as our brand new Mini SuperStakes Sundays game. For more high stakes games, check out our SuperStakes Contests game page.

Refer Friends For Cash!

We are now less than two full weeks away from the end of our Refer Friends promotion, which runs until November 15th, 2010. Start referring friends now for your shot at earning points, as well as cash prizes!

We are giving out MORE THAN $2,000 to our fantasy community for referring their friends to our site. With five ways to accumulate points and earn cash, this is one of the most exciting community fantasy promotions Fantazzle has ever offered. Just take a look at what you can do with this contest to earn points and cash:

1. RECEIVE $5 FOR EACH FRIEND WHO DEPOSITS
2. $500 BONUS TO THE MEMBER WITH THE MOST TOTAL POINTS
3. $500 PRIVATE GAME (3-9 FRIEND REFERRALS)
4. $1,000 PRIVATE GAME (10 OR MORE FRIEND REFERRALS)
5. RECEIVE FANSTOCK  FOR EACH REFERRAL

Get into the exciting high stakes action at Fantazzle, and improve your status on the site with points and cash by referring your friends to Fantazzle!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey all,

The 2010 Fantasy Basketball season has been alive and kicking for the past three days, delivering some exciting games with some truly elite performances. Good luck to those who are currently involved in a weekly fantasy basketball game. However, for those who are not, consider this a reminder that we have daily fantasy basketball games being played every single day that there are at least 3 NBA games scheduled, and we also have our weekly games every single week!

With that said, we’re getting closer and closer to the deadline to sign up and play in Fantazzle’s 2010 Season Long Fantasy Basketball games. We have several leagues with different entry fees and awesome cash prizes up for grabs. Our new season game offers a new high stakes edge to basketball, while also offering a great FREE season game that is awarding $244 in cash prizes in total, and also giving out cash prizes for the top two winners each week of the season.

Get into the action with fantasy basketball at Fantazzle now, and don’t miss out on all the great competition and cash prizes!

Play Fantasy Football Games

Fantasy baseball is over, and fantasy basketball isn’t your thing? Then let us remind you once again of our excellent weekly fantasy football games going on. Choose your game size and entry fee every week, as you have the option of playing one of our regular weekly games – Fantasy Football Challenge, Fantasy Football Salary Cap, and Fantasy Football Pick’em, or you can raise the stakes with our SuperStakes Sundays fantasy football games.

Take your game to the next level with our $200 entry fee game that awards huge cash prizes for the winners. Can’t afford the big buy in? No problem. Just head over to our SuperStakes Sundays Satellite games for your chance at cash prizes and a shot at the following week’s SuperStakes Sundays Contest!

Last, but certainly not least, don’t forget about our 100% FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge game. All you have to do is sign up and play, and you get a free chance at winning one of three cash prizes every single week. Not only that, but if you fare well against the competition, you have the chance of getting your name placed in the Week 16 Grand Prize Contest, where you can win even more cash prizes!

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Starting October 19th and running through November 15th, Fantazzle will be holding a Refer Friends Contest that will have 5 ways to win. The Refer Friends Contest will be giving away more than $2,000 during this time period. We are also now offering $5 for each friend who you refer and makes a deposit.

The Refer Friends Contest is going to be holding two different Private Fantasy Football Challenge games in Week 11. Fantazzle will be holding a $500 and a $1,000 Private Fantasy Football game that contestants can earn entries to by referring friends. We truly appreciate the members of our community and pride ourselves on holding the best fantasy sports promotions in the industry.

Not only will we be holding two private games, but we will also be giving away a $500 BONUS (conditions apply) to the member who records the most points throughout the contest in our Total Accumulated Points system. Simply refer your friends by going to your My Account page and then clicking the Refer Friend tab. From there you will see several options on how you can send your link to friends.

Week 8 Grand Prize Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge

For those of you who have played the FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge game, we recommend double checking the Ray Rice Fantasy Football Leaderboard to see if you have qualified for the Week 8 GRAND PRIZE CONTEST. Don’t see your name? No problem! The game will be going on through Week 17 of the NFL season and registration for the Week 16 grand prize contest will begin in Week 9 and going through Week 15.

The top three winners each week will compete for cash prizes, while the top ten will be entered into the Week 16 grand prize contest. We have already had 60 members receive entries into the Week 8 grand prize contest where we will be giving away $500! Good luck to all of our members, and if you would like to find more information just simply go to our Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge page.

-Fantazzle Zac

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Hey everyone,

As you probably already know, we launched our first ever Fantasy Baseball Playoff Games before the 2010 MLB playoffs began, giving our fantasy baseball community two fantasy baseball games to enjoy during the playoffs. With the MLB playoffs heading into the second round, now is the time to get back into the action with the second round of our Fantasy Baseball Playoff Challenge game!

Our Fantasy Baseball Championship Series Challenge game is now live, and will officially kick off tomorrow night (Friday) when the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers get the Championship Series started at 8 pm ET. All you have to do is pick the fantasy players who you think will perform the best out of the Phillies, Yankees, Giants and Rangers.  Our fantasy baseball playoff games operate with the same roster and scoring settings as our regular season games, with the only difference being that these last two games last for the entire round, and not just one day or week.

If for some reason you can’t take part for the second round, remember, we will have the Fantasy Baseball World Series Challenge game starting as soon as the ALCS and NLCS have come to a close! Get into the fantasy baseball action now and follow your favorite remaining players during the playoffs, while giving yourself a chance at winning some cash prizes!

Play SuperStakes Sundays and Win Big!

If baseball isn’t your sport, then allow us to remind you of all the excellent weekly fantasy football games and promotions going on at Fantazzle. As always, we have our weekly lineup of Fantasy Football Challenge, Fantasy Football Salary Cap, and Fantasy Football Pick’em games. However, if you haven’t heard, we’ve been running a high stakes fantasy football game each week, raising the stakes and giving out huge cash prizes with our SuperStakes Sundays game!

Just pay the $200 entry fee and take a crack at an impressive prize pool of $2,125! We’ve already announced thrilled winners from past SuperStakes Sundays games, with the latest winner being BamBamBigolo. Sign up and deposit now to take part in this great fantasy football opportunity. This could be the week you win big!

Remember, if you don’t have the cash to pay the SuperStakes Sundays game, you can always play our SuperStakes Sundays Satellite games, which allow you to play for cheaper entry fees of $12.50, $25, and $60. Best of all, you can compete for a chance to win a spot in the following week’s SuperStakes Sundays Contest!

Don’t Miss Out on the FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football Game!

If you haven’t yet participated in the game that truly needs no introduction, now is the time to play our FREE Ray Rice Fantasy Football game. Our Ray Rice game gives participants a shot at free cash prizes EVERY week, awarding the top three finishers with cash prizes!

If that’s not enough, we are fastly approaching our Week 8 Grand Prize game! You have just two more weeks to get into the action to become a part of the Week 8 Grand Prize game, which will be awarding more HUGE cash prizes, with a prize pool totaling $500! Remember, it’s completely free, so take the time now to sign up and play!

With each passing week, we also like to take the time to congratulate our big winners. Week five brought us three more winners in the Ray Rice game, as Barkman71 took home the top prize, while lastplace and nmcrented took home the second and third place prizes, respectively.

If you stop by to compete in any of our top games and promotions this week, feel free to check out our daily and weekly fantasy hockey games, as well.

Good luck to all who play games this week!

-Fantazzle Kevin

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Hey all,

Fantasy Hockey games will be starting today at 1:00 pm ET. We will be holding a daily Fantasy Hockey Challenge game and a weekly Fantasy Hockey Salary Cap game. We are currently offering a FREE weekly Fantasy Hockey Salary Cap game and have entry fees starting at just $5.

To play the Fantasy Hockey Salary Cap game, members must choose 2 Goalies (G), 3 Centers (C), 3 Wingers (W), and 2 Defensemen (D). Each player has an assigned salary and in order to win, fantasy users must fill their team while staying under the $1million salary cap, and of course, score the most points.

The Fantasy Hockey Challenge game is played with the same exact roster size as the salary cap game, however, there are no salaries involved. Simply pick the best players available in your opinion and beat the competition. All fantasy hockey games use the same scoring format, which can be found on our Fantasy Hockey Games page.

For you fantasy football fans in the Fantazzle community, we would like to remind all of you of our Ray Rice Fantasy Football Challenge game. Each week we give away nearly $100 in prizes and in Week 8 of the NFL season the prizes will be much greater! We would also like to give a shout out to Ray Rice, who finished yesterday’s game with 159 total yards and 2 touchdowns for a total of 27 fantasy points (3rd most of any player).

Remember, the Ray Rice Challenge game is completely FREE and we will be awarding the top-10 winners each week with entries into the GRAND PRIZE games in Week 8 or Week 16 (depending on when you qualify).

Good luck to all who play our fantasy games this week!

- Fantazzle Zac

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I am sure you have all reviewed teams’ schedules and given your thoughts or have looked at several other experts’ picks to get a feel for whose looking like favorites and whose looking like they are playing for next year already. After putting in several hours of research I have compiled my regular season standings and playoff predictions for the 2010 NFL season.

Playoff Predictions

1^st round byes: Atlanta (1), Minnesota (2)

Wildcard

Green Bay (6) vs San Francisco (3): Green Bay (6)

Carolina (5) vs Dallas (4): Dallas (4)

Divisional

Green Bay (6) vs Atlanta (1): Green Bay (6)

Dallas (4) vs Minnesota (2): Dallas (4)

NFC Championship

Green Bay (6) vs Dallas (4): Dallas (4)

Super Bowl XLV

Dallas vs Baltimore: Baltimore

There it is folks; the Super Bowl XLV winner will be the Baltimore Ravens. Led by fantasy football superstar Ray Rice and quarterback Joe Flacco on offense, the Ravens are sure to have one of the most dynamic teams in all of football in 2010. With perennial All-Pro Safety Ed Reed coming back and supposedly healthy for the new season, Baltimore is primed and ready to have one of their best seasons in a few years.

The additions of Anquan Boldin and T.J. Houshmanzadeh should really help the Ravens’ offense this year and if they are able to find a rhythm this team could be really scary. They already have one of the best rushing attacks with the likes of Ray Rice, Willis McGahee, and Le’Ron McClain, and we all know about their ferocious defense lead by Ray Lewis. Look for the Ravens to dominate at times and be the team to beat in the AFC this year. Good luck in your 2010 fantasy football season!

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2010 NFL Pro Bowler and Baltimore Raven RB Ray Rice is the new official sponsor of Fantazzle. With football season just around the corner, look for exciting fantasy football game promotions featuring Ray Rice to appear.

This is not the first time that Fantazzle has teamed up with a NFL player. In 2009, Steve Smith of the New York Giants joined the Fantazzle team and offered special fantasy football promotional games. Weekly fantasy football games had winners receiving autographed prizes from Smith. We also gave away a Pro Bowl trip for two if Fantazzle members voted for Steve Smith to reach the Pro Bowl.

Expect many similar games this upcoming football season with Ray Rice. We will be offering weekly fantasy football games that will include Ray Rice autographed materials and cash prizes. Expect other Ray Rice related games throughout the season as well.

Rice is poised to improve on his 2009 fantasy numbers when he was one of the top backs in the NFL. With an improved offense, Rice is projected to be a top back in the league yet again. Be sure to draft him in your 2010 fantasy football league.

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