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Article: BATTLE OF THE STARS IN CELEBRITY FANTASY LEAGUES, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PUBLICITY
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2006
- Author:
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Ali Weiss used to make fun of her male colleagues who held
strategy sessions in the lunchroom for their fantasy football
leagues. She couldn't understand their fervor over what she perceived
as a nerdy Dungeons & Dragons-like endeavor."They would yell at their
computer screens. They were obsessed. I didn't get it," said Weiss, a
33-year-old English teacher from Cambridge, who wrote off fantasy
football as an outlet for some primal male need for competition.That
is until one of her friends started up Fafarazzi.com, a website that
runs fantasy leagues based on celebrity gossip. The leagues are
modeled after fantasy sports but instead of racking up points for
touchdowns or home runs, players ...
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