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According to Forbes Magazine the annual revenue generated from Fantasy Football has reached $70 Billion. Yes, that's billion with a b. Fantasy Football has existed for a few decades but it really took off with the proliferation of the internet...

I had just got my coffee and was heading to Downtown Yakima to take some pictures of the more iconic buildings for another blog when I met a roadblock that wouldn't allow me to travel any further than 1st street. Kicking off this morning at 8am was day 2 of the Hot Shots 3 on 3 Tournament...

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the first Olympian to win three consecutive 100-meter gold medals on Sunday at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps has made up for one of the few losses in his Olympic career. Phelps avenged his defeat at the 2012 London Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly on Tuesday night, holding off Japan's Masato Sakai by a mere four-hundredths of a second...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA will debut a new timing system and shot clock this week in Las Vegas during the NBA Summer League, which will be integrated into all 29 arenas for the 2016-17 season. The league says the new clock will feature the game clocks, 24-second and timeout for the first time in one piece of hardware...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mike Dunleavy Sr. has begun his first college coaching job, saying the reason he wanted to take over Tulane's men's basketball program was to put himself "in position to coach again and really to be a teacher." Dunleavy said Tuesday when he was introduced that after a lengthy career as an NBA player and coach the basketball was the easy part, "Now I'm looking to b

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA is celebrating its 20th season with new uniform colors for 10 of its 12 teams. The league said Monday the uniforms will replace the traditional white jerseys at home and color jerseys on the road. San Antonio and Los Angeles will remain the same since both already feature all-color uniform designs...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dejounte Murray scored 25 points, Marquese Chriss had 18 and 10 rebounds, and Washington routed Stanford 91-68 Wednesday in the opening game of the Pac-12 tournament. Washington (18-13) entered the Pac-12 tournament hoping boost its slim NCAA Tournament chances...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum each scored 34 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Brooklyn Nets 112-104 on Tuesday night for their sixth consecutive victory. Lillard became the first player to score at least 30 points in five straight games for Portland since Geoff Petrie in the franchise's inaugural 1970-71 season...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cameron Forte scored 32 points and Portland State snapped Eastern Washington's seven-game win streak with a 107-91 victory on Saturday night. Forte was 14 of 20 from the field, grabbed a game-high nine rebounds, and scored 12 points in the first half as the Vikings built a 20-point halftime lead and cruised from there...