Today’s lesson, kids, is all about fundamentals. When playing defense and making an open field tackle, you have to stay low, square up, put your facemask in the ball carrier’s chest, and drive the ball carrier into the ground. This is the fundamentals of tackling. Oh, and it helps if the guy you are trying to tackle is not named Adrian Peterson. Because if he is, and your name is William Gay, then you just got featured in a punk out article on the front of OneSeasonNation.com

Proving again, that nothing sneaks by OSN, RSM2008 in the forums just alerted everyone to the fact that NBA Fantasy Tycoons is now live and ready to play. Check it out when you have a sec. A lot of us still have our free entries to Tycoons available. I have a feeling a lot of guys will be burning their free plays in the NBA Tycoons game! Great Job to RSM2008 for pointing this out to the community.

That’s right! We’re calling out Bubba Pup,  Riding OS Tails, SomeJerk, Oracle, EricDelich, Randy Ratio, Feli, MissThang, Olivia and every other “Know it All” out there who has done nothing but run their mouths over the last year. Some proclaming vast knowledge of fantasy sports. Some proving they know nothing! Haha! We are giving you a chance to take some money from OSN Members!

Haha, just kidding. Kind of. FanDuel.com is a site that just started up, that folks are having fun on, while we wait for OneSeason to continue build out the site. Right now, you get $10 for free just for signing up, and you can play head to head matches against anyone you want.

THE CHALLENGE! Once you have your account, and your free money, create a team for this weekends NFL matches and post your link here to the match. OSN Members can post outstanding matches here as well. This is your chance haters! Prove your knowledge about fantasy sports, put your team up against an OSN Member, and take their money! It’s that simple! On Fanduel.com, you can do anywhere from a $5 match to a $50 match. Name your stakes. Maybe Bullpup himself will take you up on your duel! Click a link below to collect your $10 bonus. Or just go to Fanduel.com and sign up! The challenge has been thrown down! Will you accept?

OneSeasonPulse.com has notified folks via Twitter and their website today that they will no longer be maintaining and updating their site. IPO Alerts should continue to work normally, as long as nothing changes on the interface on OneSeason’s end. Here is the info straight from their site…

Shut Down Information

Unfortunately, OneSeason Pulse is shutting down. What does this mean for you? Well, hopefully nothing since the site should (hopefully) still carry on as expected. However, we will not be doing anymore active development or support for it. You should still get the free alerts, SOI price updates, and site alerts but instead of having someone to complain to when they don’t work, you just have to deal with it.

It’s been a great run but we need to refocus our energy and billable hours towards other projects. You can still drop us a line at support @ oneseasonpulse” or info @ oneseasonpulse and we’ll try our best to get back to you quickly.

Thanks and Happy Trading!

The OneSeason Pulse Team

OSN wants you Danny Granger!

The OSN community is making an effort to IPO the most fantasy relevant players. In doing so we asked for your votes to see who should be the next player released into the market. You responded and the answer is Danny Granger. The young forward from the Indiana Pacers averaged 25.8 ppg 5.1rpg and 1.45 bpg making him one of the most sought after players in any fantasy draft. Please help us in our efforts to get this guy in the open market. Vote him up!

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Every Year, BP participates in the yearly NBA Auction Fantasy League with his friends back home in Portland, OR. BP could not make it this year, and as you can tell from the photo, the league is bummed out he couldn’t make the trip back to Oregon for the draft this year, but being the nice group of guys they are, they sent their well wishes.

Auction Fantasy Leagues are quite fun, and definitely a “Once you try the Auction Act..you never go back”. GM’s start w/ $200 million or so…and guys take turns throwing the name of any player in the ring. Guys bid against each other, and whoever has the highest bid…gets that player added to his squad, and the dollar amount he bid subtracted form the total. It’s very fun. I urge you and your fantasy basketball leagues that are forming to give it a try.

Shells of their former selves, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield met on Oprah recently to talk about the past, the present and the future. Enjoy.

Credit Louiecards on the great find today. Here is an interesting article about how OenSeason came about straight from the CEO of OneSeason and E-Global SPorts Network CEO himself, Mike Sroka

I was daydreaming back in 1998 in high school economics class and thought a stock exchange for athletes would be a cool way for kids to learn about market dynamics. After graduating from college I worked for a private equity fund and then a hedge fund. I was playing fantasy sports with my friends, and I thought this would work. The CEO of the hedge fund had a lot of experience with venture-backed startups. I pitched this idea to him in July 2006 and he loved it. He provided some startup capital and by May 2007 we had a business plan and we launched the Web site in October of 2008.

You can see the article here yourself. Enjoy.

OSN Member ASL06 reported to us today that OneSeason will be performing an IPO reset at the close of trading hours on Friday. Here is the official announcement. Kudos to OneSeason for keeping the IPO list in line with who active users want to see IPO’d. Kudos to ASL for the quick announcement as well in the OSN Forums. Maybe hook up ASL for his hard work with an IPO request for Mike Bibby? Ok, that’s stretching it, I know.

Continuing to use the massive power behind Facebook, OneSeason has added the feature to update your facebook status automatically, to inform all your friends on facebook of your activity on OneSeason. This is a very popular trend amongst app developers currently. Apps for mobile phones such as the Palm Pre, iPhone, and Blackberry have this feature as well. This is a great way to harness the power of facebook, and slowly increase exposure of OneSeason. If you would like to remain private, the ability should be there. Check out the facebook button at the top of the log in screen.