Sports magazine

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 1945, originally lead 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 footballmonthly Germany
Athletics WeeklySport of athleticsweekly United Kingdomoriginated 1945 [6]
AutosportMotorsportweekly United Kingdom
Baseball AmericaBaseballbi-weekly United States
Baseball DigestBaseball8 times a year United States
Basketball TimesBasketballmonthly United States
Boxing MonthlyBoxingmonthly United Kingdom
Boxing NewsBoxingweekly United Kingdom
Dime MagazineBasketball10 times a year United States
ESPN The MagazineGeneral sportsbi-weekly United States
Fight! MagazineMMAmonthly United States
FourFourTwoAssociation footballmonthly United Kingdom
France FootballAssociation footballbi-weekly France
Golf MagazineGolfmonthly United States
The Hockey NewsIce hockeyweekly Canada
HoopBasketballbi-monthly United States
KickerAssociation footballbi-weekly Germany
LacrosseLacrossemonthly United States
MatchAssociation footballweekly United Kingdom
National Masters NewsSport of athletics12 times a year United Statesoriginated 1977 [7] [8]
Pro Football WeeklyAmerican Football (NFL)weekly United States
Pro Wrestling IllustratedProfessional wrestlingmonthly United States
The RingBoxingmonthly United States
RacerMotorsport8 times a year United States
Rugby League WeekRugby leagueweekly Australia
Runner's WorldSport of athletics12 times a year United States
SidewalkSkateboardingmonthly United Kingdom
The Skateboard MagSkateboardingmonthly United States
SLAMBasketball9 times per year United States
Soccer AmericaAssociation footballmonthly United States
Sporting NewsGeneral sportsbi-weekly United Statesoriginated March 17, 1886. [9]
Sports IllustratedGeneral sportsweekly United Statesoriginated 1954 [10]
Sports WeeklyBaseball / NFL / NASCARweekly United States
SportsEvents MagazineGeneral sportsmonthly United States
TennisTennis8 times a year United States
Track & Field NewsSport of athletics12 times a year United States
Transworld SkateboardingSkateboarding14 times a year United States
World SoccerAssociation footballmonthly 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. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  7. Masters T&F History. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  8. NMN. Retrieved Feb 3, 2021
  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

List of United States magazines

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