‘The Rich Eisen Show’ partners with Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Sports has made a concerted effort to bolster its sports offerings recently.
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ESPN beat NBC/Yahoo in Comscore digital traffic in Olympics months for first time
The NBC/Yahoo partnership has usually bested ESPN's digital numbers in Olympic months, but not this time.
Latest Yahoo layoffs include veteran MMA/boxing columnist Kevin Iole
Iole had been with Yahoo since 2007.
Jason Fitz, Nate Tice, and Sal Vetri join Yahoo Sports
Yahoo continues to staff up on the football side.
Yahoo Sports hires Axios’ Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy to head newsletters
This is a big investment in a newsletter strategy for new Yahoo Sports president Ryan Spoon.
Former Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman has reportedly had talks with Apollo about a “head of sports” role at Yahoo
"Apollo has been working with Egon Zehnder, an executive search firm, to seek out new leaders. That search includes former Bleacher Report CEO Howard Mittman for a 'head of sports' role, two of the people said."
Verizon is out of the media business, selling Yahoo and AOL to Apollo Global Management
How Yahoo's sale will affect its sports properties is yet to be determined.
Verizon is exploring a sale of Verizon Media, including Yahoo and AOL, for around half of what it paid for those two companies
It looks like Verizon may sell Yahoo and AOL for far less than it paid for them.
Yahoo layoffs include all four writers hired for the Mets site they wound up not launching
Wallace Matthews, Matt Ehalt, Mike Mazzeo and Gerard Gilberto all announced Friday that they'd been laid off.
Yahoo launches Yahoo Sportsbook in their main app, allowing odds viewing nationwide and betting in New Jersey
Yahoo Sports app users nationwide can now check out odds in the Yahoo Sportsbook portion of the app, and those in New Jersey can place bets through it.
Yahoo cancels planned Mets subscription site, but still has an “eye on the subscription space”
Yahoo's Mets' subscription site is no more. It was initially set to launch in March, then in June, and now it's been cancelled completely.
Yahoo’s premium Mets app hasn’t yet launched, reportedly thanks to MLB intervening to try and get other clubs similar deals
"When MLB realized what was going down, it wanted more of its teams involved in a similar deal with Verizon/Yahoo. Finding a way to accomplish this slowed the launch of 'TFMBC.'"
Yahoo’s Mike Oz on “Old Baseball Cards” reaching 100 episodes: “When we started, I didn’t know what it was going to be.”
"I'm honestly astonished we made it to 100 episodes just because when we started, we did like four or five of them and I didn't know what it was going to be. [But then] we did those two episodes where I realized that it could be something bigger."
Yahoo reportedly following The Athletic into subscription business
You can now pay Yahoo for Mets coverage if that's something you're into
Verizon (Huffington Post/Yahoo/AOL), BuzzFeed and Gannett are all laying off staff, more than 1,000 people in all
More than 1,000 media members are about to be out of work after widespread cuts at three organizations Wednesday.
Kelly Dwyer talks Yahoo layoff and his new subscription basketball site, The Second Arrangement
"It just feels right. Everything feels like it's working and I can't wait to keep working."
Why won’t the NFL release viewership numbers from its Yahoo-only London game?
The NFL can't be criticized for its ratings if it simply refuses to release them.
Verizon’s online stream of Baltimore-Jacksonville led to complaints
So about that NFL stream....
Where does Barstool fall in the future of digital sports coverage?
With the New England Patriots hosting the NFL’s season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night,...
Yahoo owes SCA Promotions $5.5 million for NCAA billion-dollar bracket deal: appeals court
Litigation that killed the Billion-Dollar Bracket Challenge has resulted in an appeals court ruling Yahoo has to pay $5.5 million to SCA.
Which major sports league will take the plunge and put games exclusively online?
Which league will be the first to sell an online package of games?
Yahoo Sports hires former SI writer Pete Thamel, continuing college sports media musical chairs
It's getting hard to keep track of which college sports writer works for whom.
Adrian Wojnarowski tells why he went to ESPN
And he'll be appearing on camera unlike his voiceovers at The Vertical
Adrian Wojnarowski will reportedly start at ESPN July 1, just in time for NBA free agency
Woj might have a busy first day.
Unlike with the NFL Draft, ESPN will allow reporters to tweet NBA Draft picks before they’re announced
ESPN doesn't want to get beat by Adrian Wojnarowski on every pick.