A sports magazine is usually a weekly, biweekly or monthly,

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featuring articles or segments on

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. 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.

History

Sports journalism Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the ...

started covering sporting events in the United States in the 1800s in newspaper and magazine format. The ''

Sporting News The ''Sporting News'' is a website and former magazine publication owned by Sporting News Holdings, which is a U.S.-based sports media company formed in December 2020 by a private investor consortium. It was originally established in 1886 as a pr ...

'' being the oldest, and was first published March 17, 1886. ''

Sports Illustrated ''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twic ...

'' (SI) originated in 1954, originally lead by

Henry Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America ...

and later

André Laguerre Marc André Laguerre (February 21, 1915 – January 18, 1979) was a journalist and magazine editor, best known as the managing editor of ''Sports Illustrated'' from 1960 to 1974, during which time he oversaw the growth in the magazine from a nich ...

, 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".

In Print

Sports magazines in print include:

Former Magazines

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

Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Racing Register ''Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Racing Register'', from 1889 ''Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes'', was a monthly magazine of horse racing and other equine Equinae is a subfamily of the family Equidae, which have li ...

Outing (magazine) ''Outing'' (sometimes titled ''The Outing Magazine'') was a late 19th- and early 20th-century American magazine covering a variety of sporting activities. It began publication in 1882 as the ''Wheelman'' "an illustrated magazine of cycling litera ...

, Public Ledger, and The Athletic World (Canada) Vancouver Daily World, British Columbia, Canada, Dec 17, 1910

Retrieved Feb 3, 2021

References

{{reflist Magazine genres

History

In Print

Former Magazines

See also

References