Popular phantasy shot commentators Josh Norris and Hayden Winks are joining Yahoo Sports.
The duo, which hosted Underdog’s Fantasy Football podcast until this week, when Underdog shuttered its archetypal contented network, volition bring their amusement to Yahoo’s integer platforms and FAST airwaves.
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Yahoo announced the determination connected Wednesday morning. The show volition relaunch aboriginal successful July.
“When we heard Underdog was ending its contented network, we instantly wanted Josh and Hayden, and Underdog worked intimately with america to guarantee their amusement had a caller home,” said Sam Farber, caput of Yahoo Studios and sports content, successful a release.
Yahoo runs respective phantasy shot products done its fashionable Yahoo Fantasy app. The institution has respective phantasy shot commentators connected its roster, including integer hosts.
With Norris and Winks, Yahoo further bolsters its contented offering successful a cardinal space.
“Yahoo Fantasy is simply a bequest platform,” said Winks successful the release. “We’ve each played connected it for decades, and the existent team—led by Matt Harmon, Justin Boone, Nate Tice, and others—is arsenic bully arsenic it gets. We are honored to articulation them, and look guardant to making adjacent amended contented for our dedicated fans for years to come.”
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Added Norris:
“It has been an unthinkable travel gathering a YouTube transmission from zero to implicit 170,000 subscribers — our assemblage is truthful loyal and passionate — but I cognize the champion is inactive ahead. I can’t hold to spot what we physique together.”
Underdog coiled down its archetypal contented and sponsorship limb implicit the past year, past canceled its remaining shows this week. Norris and Winks were among the highest-profile hosts astatine Underdog and besides held originative roles wrong the company.
At Yahoo, the 2 volition besides lend to existing phantasy shot programming, including Yahoo Fantasy Forecast and Fantasy Football Live.
The station Yahoo Sports signs Josh Norris, Hayden Winks aft shutdown of Underdog contented network appeared archetypal connected Awful Announcing.
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