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Yahoo! Sports reached a milestone during the first quarter of 2011, as its blogs totaled more than 1 billion page views, up 31 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2010.

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Didn’t make the cut for the Royal Wedding guest list? Fear not: Yahoo! has you covered. The Royal Wedding website, which launched Monday, is an extension of women’s lifestyle site Shine from Yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Finance will break in a brand-new New York studio with new original Web show Breakout, which will debut Monday, March 21, hosted by Jeff Macke, formerly of CNBC’s Fast Money, and Business Day reporter and former Bloomberg TV correspondent Matt Nesto.

Breakout will add new installments several times per day Monday-Friday, covering global trading and markets and featuring interviews with investors and traders.

It will mark the second original Web series on Yahoo! Finance, joining Tech Ticker, which peaks at 2 million views per day.

Here’s the upshot for Yahoo! News’ The Upshot: People are leaving.

Just a little over one week after the departure of The Cutline‘s Michael Calderone, who left to become senior media reporter at Huffington Post Media Group, The Cutline managing editor Andrew Golis (pictured) is leaving to take the post of digital media and senior editor at PBS’ Frontline.

Deputy managing editor Chris Lehmann, previously a writer and editor at CQ, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and The New York Observer, will replace Golis.

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Host Frank Nicotero will receive a reward for his Yahoo! TV program, Primetime in No Time, surpassing the 500 million-stream milestone: Nicotero will get to watch other people do his work.

Three Web celebrities will guest-host Primetime in No Time March 28-30: Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster, advisor to tech startups), Michelle Phan (make-up and beauty tutorials on viral video sites), and DeStorm Power (singer, songwriter, and video editor).

Politico chief foreign-policy writer Laura Rozen is stamping her passport for Yahoo! News, coming on board as its senior foreign-affairs reporter, based in its Washington, D.C., bureau. She will also launch The Envoy, a blog focused on foreign policy.

Yahoo! executive editor of North American audiences Dave Morgan said:

The addition of Laura to The Upshot team is another example of how the Yahoo! News blogs have established themselves not only as a home to one of the industry’s largest audiences, but also a magnet for the industry’s best talent.

Yahoo! Movies has its popcorn ready for Sunday’s 83^rd Annual Academy Awards, with all of its Oscars content sponsored by Chrysler.

Among Oscars-related initiatives: original video program Road to the Awards, the ability to predict the winners via Facebook on Oscars Pick-Em, and allowing its users to be fashion critics via Who Wore It Best?

Yahoo! said it drew more than 7 million unique visitors to its Golden Globes site, and its Oscars site for the 2010 event attracted more than 11 million.

Yahoo! adapted its Yahoo! Finance iPhone app for the iPad, releasing MarketDash, which syncs across the two previously mentioned Apple platforms, as well as Android, maintaining any changes made by users, Mashable reported.

MarketDash supports multitouch operation and offers finance news, stock charts, plot points, and stock tickers, according to Mashable, and it is available free-of-charge via the App Store.

omg! NOW, the first daily celebrity and entertainment news program from Yahoo!, is off to a rousing start, with items on Grammy Award winner and Justin Bieber conqueror Esperanza Spalding, Scarlett Johansson (no, she is not dating Sean Penn), Natalie Portman, Kevin Smith, and the breakup of Jude Law and Sienna Miller.

Kristen Aldridge hosts omg! NOW, and it is sponsored by the Ford Focus.

The Washington Post head of video editorial Steven King told Beet.TV the newspaper and Yahoo! have enjoyed a quick fix from The Fast Fix, a co-branded 60-second daily video update in which Chris Cillizza, managing editor of PostPolitics and author of blog The Fix, updates news from the Beltway. The Fast Fix has reached 1 million views per day, virtually equaling the viewership of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, although, as Beet.TV points out, a comparison of a one-minute Webcast and a 60-minute television show is stretching it a bit.