"Wall Street Survivor" champion Brad Halverson has won thousands of dollars in fantasy contests.
But perhaps the instrument of the new connected age was already in place in fantasy.
Those fans who play in fantasy leagues or wager on the games will be especially upset.
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Mr. McGovern said in a letter to this newspaper that the FARC was engaging in fantasy.
We need more like this, both in fantasy and in RPG video games, and less Tolkien imitation please.
Cards in Urban Rivals needed to be trained individually, in Fantasy Rivals that system has been refined and streamlined.
Some 15 to 18 million people played in fantasy leagues this year, up from 4 million in 2000, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.
"SportsClix" can be played in fantasy games on a plastic board or swapped like cards, each figure having one of six degrees of rarity.
It's an incredibly helpful way to keep track of the hundreds of characters in fantasy novels (or just the five characters in a regular book).
In fantasy football, there is always next week or next season.
In Britain, where fierce competition between national dailies probably rules out all-encompassing pay walls, newspapers nonetheless charge for crossword tips and participation in fantasy sport leagues.
Creating this sense of whimsy and wonder is the essence of Dar Ahlam and traces to its owner, a Parisian event coordinator who specializes in fantasy events.
The action on NFL gambling trumps what you see in other sports, as is the participation in Fantasy Football (estimated to be 30 million people according to this academic article).
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There's a reason "South Park" remains a high-rated show, why "The Simpsons" is the longest-running sitcom in history, why a third installment of "The Hangover" is being released: A lot of people like dumb, frat-boy humor draped in fantasy.
More than 34 million Americans participate in fantasy sports leagues each year, with player numbers growing by 2 million a year, which makes the fantasy sport sector within the sport business industry one that many innovators wish to exploit.
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In a celebrity-saturated culture, it can be difficult for adults to draw the line between what is acceptable behavior and what may work in the fantasy land that exists in the Hollywood Hills, but isn't actually real-world appropriate.
Koch's death, Lynne sought refuge in the fantasy that Steven was alive in Afghanistan.
The central idea here is that Colleen is lost in a fantasy world of violence, which in effect, can be claimed about anyone who has ever played an M-rated video game.
If so, they would have discovered that the Geneva negotiations kept coasting in a fantasy land where the realities of pharmacological production processes and advances in biotechnology do not exist, and where the many dismal failures of other, much less difficult international inspection efforts have never occurred.
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Does violence presented in a fantasy context get an easier ride from the censors than that presented in a dramatic setting?
Muni investors who believe these are isolated cases are living in a fantasy world.
Again, the SEC seems to be living in a fantasy world where whistleblowers are rewarded.
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And in each fantasy, his triumph had been deliriously witnessed by family, friends, and the world around him.
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Johnson has also had a recurring role in US fantasy series Game of Thrones, playing a mute executioner.
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She said his actions were nothing more than being part of a group that is involved in "fantasy" games.
Kefalas said it a little more succinctly: Sandberg lives in a fantasy world.
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Playing in a fantasy league makes many people "better fans, " said Matthew Berry, the top fantasy expert at ESPN.com.
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