Article: BATTLE OF THE STARS IN CELEBRITY FANTASY LEAGUES, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PUBLICITY

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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