Yahoo! Sports is a sports

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launched by

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on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from

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It employs numerous writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American major sport. Before the launch of Yahoo Sports, certain elements of the site were known as Yahoo! Scoreboard. From 2011 to 2016, the Yahoo Sports brand had also been used for a U.S.A.

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network. That network is now known as

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Sports covered

The United States edition of Yahoo Sports covers many sports, including

WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a as WWE, is an American professional wrestling promotion. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into other fields, including film, American football, and vari ...

, NFL,

MLB Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...

, NBA, NHL, college football,

college basketball In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...

NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and ...

, golf, tennis,

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...

arena football Indoor American football, or arena football, is a variation of gridiron football played at ice hockey-sized indoor arenas. While varying in details from league to league, the rules of indoor football are designed to allow for play in a smaller ...

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...

, CFL, cycling, IndyCar, Major League Soccer, motorsport, Olympics,

NCAA baseball College baseball is baseball that is played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education. In comparison to football and basketball, college competition in the United States plays a smaller role in developing professional ...

NCAA ice hockey College ice hockey is played principally in the United States and Canada, though leagues exist outside North America. In the United States, competitive "college hockey" refers to ice hockey played between colleges and universities within the g ...

, NCAA women's basketball, WNBA,

alpine skiing World Cup The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France ( ...

track & field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

(UK),

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, rugby (UK), swimming,

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, and horse racing. Yahoo Sports also previously covered the now defunct ABL and WUSA.

Writers

Yahoo Sports employs many reporters, including

Pat Forde Pat Forde is a sports journalist who is a national columnist for ''Sports Illustrated''. He previously worked for ESPN, ''The Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, Kentucky, and ''Yahoo Sports''. Personal life and education Forde is a native of C ...

Dan Wetzel Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, documentary film producer, podcaster, and national columnist for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo.com. Career As a sports writer, he has worked as the national columnist for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo.com, covering events ...

, Pete Thamel, and

Jeff Passan Jeffrey Scott Passan (born September 21, 1980) is an American baseball columnist with ESPN and author of ''New York Times'' Best Seller ''The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports''. He is also co-author ...

among others.

Key dates in Yahoo Sports

* December 8, 1997: Yahoo Sports is launched. * January 17, 2003: Yahoo Sports launched the first major redesign of the website. * February 8, 2006: Yahoo Sports launched the Yahoo Sports Blog. * May 8, 2006: Yahoo Sports starts streaming free live NHL games. * May 30, 2006: Yahoo Sports launched the Yahoo Sports Beta website. * February 1, 2007: Yahoo Sports launched the current homepage. * February 1, 2007: Yahoo Sports Beta website was taken offline. * June 21, 2007: Yahoo Sports acquires Rivals.com. * January 11, 2011: Yahoo Sports combines with SportsFanLive.com. to begin producing ThePostGame.com, a daily online magazine. * August 26, 2013: Yahoo Sports page launches a new graphical look with dark backgrounds and bigger text. The new redesign was met with highly negative reactions. * June 3, 2015: the NFL awards Yahoo Sports the exclusive right to broadcast the October 25 game between the Buffalo Bills and

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from London, England, via free livestream. * January 29, 2016: Yahoo Sports launches The Vertical subsection for news involving the NBA. * June 13, 2017 Verizon takes control of Yahoo! Sports * December 11, 2017 Verizon and the NFL sign deal to allow NFL Streaming of live local and primetime games to the Yahoo! Sports Mobile App on Mobile Phones and Tablets * January 17, 2018 Verizon gets rights to stream NBA League Pass the out of market sports package that shows every out-of-market non nationally televised game to the Yahoo! Sports app for $200 a year * On October 29, 2019, Yahoo Sports announced a sports betting partnership with BetMGM, a joint venture of casino operator

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and UK gambling operator

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. On November 14, 2019, the Yahoo Sportsbook launched in New Jersey, with launches in other U.S. states dependent on those states approving legal wagering.

Yahoo and NBC Sports Group

On December 9, 2012, Yahoo and the

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announced a content and promotional deal combining Yahoo Sports’ original reporting expertise, coverage of big events, Rivals’ college content and popular fantasy sports products with NBC Sports Group's growing digital assets, and significant television promotion and integration. While Yahoo Sports and the NBC Sports Group will continue to maintain separate sites and editorial control of their respective newsrooms and digital properties, they will collaborate on premium sports news and events coverage both online and on the air. Yahoo Sports’ popular products will also be included in the NBC Sports Group's digital assets. Key features of the alliance include: Editorial Depth: The combined talent roster of Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports features a deep bench of award-winning reporters and commentators, such as NBC's

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and Mike Florio; Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Adrian Wojnarowski. Yahoo Sports’ renowned investigative reporting will be featured on NBC TV, giving fans multiple-platform delivery. Original Video Programming Concepts: Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports will work together to develop original made-for-web video programs that will appear on both Yahoo Sports and NBCSports.com featuring fan favorites from among the award-winning editorial teams’ rosters, including: NBC Sports host and Emmy Award-winning commentator Bob Costas: video sports news interviews and editorials Football Night in America's

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& Rodney Harrison: video segments during NFL season Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com: daily, weekday NFL web show, Pro Football Talk Live Rivals on Recruiting: weekly college recruiting show with Rivals and NBC Sports talent. Live Streaming: Yahoo Sports will link to and promote the NBC Sports Live Extra video player. Fans will be able to watch live streams of some of NBC's biggest events, starting with Sunday Night Football and NHL Game of the Week. Live content from NBC Sports Network will continue to be distributed through NBC Sports Live Extra on a TV Everywhere basis. Fantasy Sports: Yahoo Sports, the leading fantasy platform, will become the exclusive fantasy game provider of NBC Sports’ Rotoworld, the premiere fantasy news and information site. This will include Yahoo Sports’ fantasy experiences for football, baseball, hockey, soccer, College Bowl Pick’em and Tourney Pick’em. Rivals.com: The college sports destination will power recruiting and college sporting news for NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports Regional Networks. NBC Sports Regional Networks: The authentic, local sports properties will serve as Yahoo Sports’ preferred content provider in relevant markets, and integrate Yahoo Sports’ team pages, fantasy experts and sports talent. NBC's Alli Sports: Providing youth-focused, action-sports video and other content to Yahoo Sports.

Blogs

Notable accomplishments

* In 2006 it was revealed that "Fans spend more time on Yahoo Sports than any other sports site" according to comScore Media Metrix. * Before the

2006 NFL Draft The 2006 National Football League Draft, the 71st in league history, took place in New York City, New York, at Radio City Music Hall on April 29 and April 30, 2006. For the 27th consecutive year, the draft was telecast on ESPN and ESPN2, with add ...

, Yahoo Sports revealed the allegations that Reggie Bush accepted gifts from an upstart sports marketing firm in exchange for his patronage. They have since issued several updates on the story. * On August 16, 2011, Yahoo Sports broke the story of a massive scandal involving the University of Miami, based on over 100 hours of interviews with former Hurricanes booster and convicted fraudster

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. * On June 23, 2016, Yahoo Sports via The Vertical name-hosted the first-ever live stream of an NBA draft by hosting the 2016 NBA Draft and unveiling information as it was revealed, which usually happened moments in advance of the original selections were revealed on TV. The livestream produced over 2.8 million unique viewers for an average of 34 minutes per user, with there being 3.7 million viewers throughout the course of over four hours of extensive coverage. It also beat out

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's viewership results for the draft, with it holding a rating of 2.4 million viewers. This resulted in their return to the livestream for the

2017 NBA Draft The 2017 NBA draft was held on June 22, 2017, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. ...

on June 22 a year later.

References

External links

Yahoo Sports HomepageYahoo Sports BlogYahoo Sports Launch Press Release

Information on Yahoo's acquisition of Sportasy
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