Last Saturday in Las Vegas it reached a mainstream milestone of sorts: At the MGM Grand Hotel, more than 800 fantasists gathered for the player draft of the first World Championship of Fantasy Football.
The first order of business was to create a working draft of the full world from George R. R. Martin's sketches.
The Obama administration has drafted some of the world's largest food and finance companies to invest more than $3 billion in projects aimed at helping the world's poorest farmers grow enough food to not only feed themselves and their families but to earn a livelihood as well.
The NHL International Scouting Services ranked Tavares as the top draft prospect in the world, ahead of defenceman Victor Hedman, Swedish forward Magnus Pääjärvi-Svensson and Canadian forward Matt Duchene in its March 2009 update.
The Percheron is the most famous and populous of all French draft breeds in the world today.
You'll find more Parisians here than noisy expats, and they come for draft Guinness, one of the world's biggest selections of Irish whiskies – over 350 at the last count – dozens of Irish craft ales, and an unbeatable lunch menu at €10 for a juicy burger, fat hand-cut chips and a beer.
Once, in the last years of my career in episodic I was forced to use a PC laptop because the series I wrote for demanded that we crank out teleplays in the Windows format of Final Draft - the world's greatest screenwriting software.
The Austrian émigré writer Stefan Zweig composed the first draft of his memoir, "The World of Yesterday," in a feverish rapture during the summer of 1941, as headlines gave every indication that civilization was being swallowed in darkness.
For the last two weeks, John Romita Jr. has sat at a drafting table with images of the World Trade Center pinned to the walls around him, struggling to render the aftermath of the attack on New York in comic book pictures.
Still, the significance of a quality draft -- or, in the case of the world champions, quality drafts -- remains too great to ignore.
Updated at 9.37am BST 9.11am BST IMF forecasts leaked Bloomberg is running an article that, it claims, contains a draft of the International Monetary Fund's world economic outlook due to be released next week.
