Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc., employs various writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American sport. (Before the launch of Yahoo! Sports, certain elements of the site were known as Yahoo! Scoreboard.)

Yahoo! Sports covers many sports, including NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, College Football, College Basketball, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, World Soccer, Arena Football, Boxing, CFL, Cycling, IndyCar, Major League Soccer, Motor sports, Olympics, NCAA Baseball, NCAA Hockey, NCAA Women's Basketball, WNBA, World Cup, Track & Field, Cricket (UK), Figure Skating, Rugby (UK), Swimming, Mixed Martial Arts, and Horse Racing. Yahoo! Sports also previously covered the now defunct ABL and WUSA.

As of November 2011, writers at Yahoo Sports included Dan Wetzel, Adrian Wojnarowski, Jason Cole, Charles Robinson, Jeff Passan, Josh Peter, Tim Brown, Kevin Iole, Dave Meltzer, Pat Forde, Bob Margolis, Jerry Bonkowski, John Murphy, Michael Silver, Matt Buser, Justin Phan, Terry Bowden, Kenny Smith, Matt Romig, Martin Rogers, James C. Black, Brandon Funston, Brad Evans, Greg Anthony, Cris Carter, Marc J. Spears and Gerry Ahern.

Angela Sun is an American journalist, television presenter, and sports reporter. A correspondent for ESPN X Games, Sun is also one of the faces of Al Gore's Current TV network.

Born in Northern California, of Chinese descent, Angela Sun began her career interning at High School Sports Focus of KICU-TV in the Bay Area. Sun attended UCLA, and shortly after landed her first hosting job. Angela's action sports background led to hosting for EXTV, LG Action Sports Championships and ASP Surfing World Tour. She was sponsored by Roxy, Reef, Oakley, Billabong, Rip Curl, and Vans. Sun competed in pro/am surf events and was a team rider for Loaded Skateboards.

In 2003 Sun was hired as correspondent for Fox Sports Net's 54321. She went on to report for FSN West's Dig! Volleyball Magazine show.

ESPN hired Sun as a correspondent for X Center for Summer X Games 11. She also reported for The Winter X Games as the New Media correspondent for ESPN.com.

In the summer of 2005 Sun left to shoot a 3 part documentary series for Current TV about Underground Christian Missionaries in China that would win her a Telly Award.

Colin Rand Kaepernick (born November 3, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 2nd round, 36th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Nevada.

Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An adopted child of Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, Kaepernick is of mixed European and African descent and the youngest of their three children. He lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin until age four and attended grade school in Turlock, California.

Kaepernick graduated from the University of Nevada Reno in December 2010 with a bachelors degree in business management and is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He is known to have high character and a relatively unassuming personality off the field, as evidenced by an incident that took place during the summer of 2010 interning at a University of Nevada-themed sports apparel shop in Reno. One woman came in and, completely unaware she was speaking to Kaepernick, asked him to find his jersey. A manager at the store would later recall, "Colin said, ‘I’m pretty sure it’s No. 10, and it’s right over here.’ He rang up her purchase and everything."

Jim Kozimor is the play-by-play announcer for the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes on Comcast SportsNet California, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area on television and KLIV 1590 for games televised nationally on radio. In addition, Kozimor also serves as an anchor for SportsNet Central at CSN Bay Area.

Kozimor was a television and radio personality for the Sacramento Kings and the Sacramento Monarchs. His duties for the Kings included hosting the warm-up and wrap-up show House Party Live and occasional radio callsof the game on The Kings' Radio Network. Kozimor additionally hosted Kings Talk and the nightly Jim Kozimor ShowGram on on KHTK, 1140 AM. For the Monarchs he similarly hosted the weekly Monarchs Talk show and served as the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the team.

In addition to his obligations to Sacramento's basketball franchises, Kozimor serves (served?) as the host of Comcast SportNet's Oakland Raiders televised press conferences and serves as the play-by-play announcer for other local sports on the channel.

Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, and national sports columnist for Yahoo.com.

He is a New York Times best-selling author. He's written sports-related books "Resilience", Sole Influence, Glory Road, and Runnin' Rebel. As a sports journalist, he has covered NASCAR, college football, the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, mixed martial arts, and the Olympics. His columns appear nationally on Yahoo.com.

He is a fill-in host on The Sports Inferno in Detroit, Michigan on AM 1270.

Wetzel is a native of Norwell, Massachusetts and a 1994 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was editor of the campus newspaper (The Daily Collegian) and majored in political science.

Dan Wetzel is a passionate opponent of the BCS system for determining the NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship. He regularly writes on the desirability of a playoff to determine the national champion, and has co-authored a book entitled Death to the BCS.