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deadspin.com - 8/29/2008

Stephen A. Smith Thinks Your Fantasy Football League Could Use A Little Color [Stephen A. Smith]

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ESPN's resident wayward loudmouth Stephen A. Smith hunt-and-pecked his way through another magazine column this week, and took on fantasy football and its overwhelming whiteness. Miraculously, SAS does manage to dig up an MIT sociological study (actually it's a Fantasy Sports Trade Association's "study") which found that 93% of all fantasy sports participants are, in fact, white. This is not ...

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