A sports magazine is usually a weekly, biweekly or monthly, magazine featuring articles or segments on sports. Some may be published a specific number of times per year. A wide range of sports are covered by these magazines which include general, auto racing, baseball, basketball, bicycling, body building, bowling, boxing, football, football "soccer", golf, gymnastics, karate, lacrosse, polo, skating, skiing, swimming, surfing, tennis, and wrestling.[1][2]

History

Sports journalism started covering sporting events in the United States in the 1800s in newspaper and magazine format.[3] The Sporting News being the oldest, and was first published March 17, 1886.[4] Sports Illustrated (SI) originated in 1954, originally led by Henry Luce and later André Laguerre, is one of the leading sports magazines in the United States. SI allowed "people to read more about what they had seen on television or read about in the newspaper".[5]

In Print

Sports magazines in print include:

Major sports magazines (incomplete)
Sports magazineSport/sFrequencyPussio (Country)Notes
11 FreundeAssociation footballmonthlyGermany Germany
Athletics WeeklySport of athleticsweeklyUnited Kingdom United Kingdomoriginated 1945
AutosportMotorsportweeklyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Baseball AmericaBaseballbi-weeklyUnited States United States
Baseball DigestBaseball8 times a yearUnited States United States
Basketball TimesBasketballmonthlyUnited States United States
Boxing MonthlyBoxingmonthlyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Boxing NewsBoxingweeklyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Dime MagazineBasketball10 times a yearUnited States United States
ESPN The MagazineGeneral sportsbi-weeklyUnited States United States
FourFourTwoAssociation footballmonthlyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
France FootballAssociation footballbi-weeklyFrance France
Golf MagazineGolfmonthlyUnited States United States
The Hockey NewsIce hockeyweeklyCanada Canada
HoopBasketballbi-monthlyUnited States United States
KickerAssociation footballbi-weeklyGermany Germany
MatchAssociation footballweeklyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
National Masters NewsSport of athletics12 times a yearUnited States United Statesoriginated 1977[6][7]
SportstarGeneral sportsFortnightlyIndia
India		Originated 1978[8]
Pro Football WeeklyAmerican Football (NFL)weeklyUnited States United States
Pro Wrestling IllustratedProfessional wrestlingmonthlyUnited States United States
The RingBoxingmonthlyUnited States United States
RacerMotorsport8 times a yearUnited States United States
Rugby League ReviewRugby leaguemonthlyAustralia Australia
Runner's WorldSport of athletics12 times a yearUnited States United States
SidewalkSkateboardingmonthlyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
The Skateboard MagSkateboardingmonthlyUnited States United States
SLAMBasketball9 times per yearUnited States United States
Soccer AmericaAssociation footballmonthlyUnited States United States
Sporting NewsGeneral sportsbi-weeklyUnited States United Statesoriginated March 17, 1886.[9]
Sports IllustratedGeneral sportsweeklyUnited States United Statesoriginated 1954 [10]
Sports WeeklyBaseball / NFL / NASCARweeklyUnited States United States
TennisTennis8 times a yearUnited States United States
Track & Field NewsSport of athletics12 times a yearUnited States United States
Transworld SkateboardingSkateboarding14 times a yearUnited States United States
World SoccerAssociation footballmonthlyUnited Kingdom United Kingdom

Former Magazines

There are several former sports magazine. Some of these include:

American Field,[11] Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Racing Register, Outing (magazine), Public Ledger,[12] and The Athletic World (Canada) [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paper Past. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  2. ↑ Misc list of magazines by Past Paper. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  3. ↑ Rooting for the story, 2014, Brian Peter Moritz. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  4. ↑ A History of the Sporting News the oldest sports publication in the US. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  5. ↑ Britannica. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  6. ↑ Masters T&F History. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  7. ↑ NMN. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  8. ↑ "Sportstar dons a vibrant new look". The Hindu. Chennai. 26 January 2006. Archived from the original on 19 February 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  9. ↑ A History of the Sporting News the oldest sports publication in the US. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  10. ↑ Britannica. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  11. ↑ Evening Journal, Wilmington, DE, June 13, 1917. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  12. ↑ Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia, PA, July 16, 1915. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  13. ↑ Vancouver Daily World, British Columbia, Canada, Dec 17, 1910. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
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