August was a busy month for sports-related Web sites, MediaPost reports. According to Nielsen, about 42.3 million unique visitors hit up sites such as Yahoo Sports and NBCOlympics.com, besting August 2007 numbers by 8.9 million. Quadrennial events like the Olympics aren’t the only cause for the spike. Fantasy sports sites such as Fantasy Sports Ventures Network saw a 285% increase from a year before, making it the fasting-growing site in the top 10.
—Christopher Perez