When Yahoo sports was launched in December 1997, no one thought that it would do so well. STATS. Inc, the company responsible for providing information to Yahoo sports, has done a great job so far. STATS has a team of a writers employed for every different sport that provide an up to date information to yahoo servers. Yahoo sports was known as Yahoo scoreboard before it launch. Yahoo sports provides complete coverage for every sport today not just in north America but all over the world. Yahoo sports has started live streaming of NHL games since May 2006.