Back in the day fantasy baseball players would agree upon which daily newspaper they would use for the box scores to manually track their players. You had to be a pretty hardcore baseball fan to want to play fantasy baseball. It took hours of work each week just to know what happened let alone all the research etc... to pick and follow your players. To follow America's game was hard enough, to follow smaller or regional sports required either geographic proximity or specialized news letters.
I follow the Iditarod every year. I learned about the sport after I spent part of one summer in Alaska with a musher and his family years ago. Years ago a back page blurb in the paper announcing the winner was about all you could find. Now there is real time gps tracking that allows you to follow almost every minute of the race. ( Except for now since the tracker is down).
Speaking of the Iditarod this year has been a fantastic race. Four or five mushers in a tight battle at the front for hundreds of miles. Iditarod sled dogs and mushers are fantastic endurance athletes. Nine days of arctic conditions covering a thousand plus miles. The winner should finish sometime tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to follow the last few miles live on the web.
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