ports Illustrated (www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com) has been snubbed by sibling America Online (AOL). The magazine has tied up with Yahoo, after being rebuffed by its Time Warner sibling AOL on a proposal to build a major sports portal together.

The portal is expected to have a "My SI" desktop application too. Under the deal with Yahoo, the Yahoo Sports home page will feature Sports Illustrated news, columns and photos in sections broken out from the rest of the content and highlighted. In exchange, Sports Illustrated's site has removed its own fantasy game and now links to Yahoo Sports' fantasy games instead and calls Yahoo Sports its "featured partner".... more