Sports magazine
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A sports magazine is usually a weekly, monthly, biweekly magazine
featuring articles or segments on sports. Some may be published a specific number of times per year.
Major sports magazines in print include:
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
featuring articles or segments on sports. Some may be published a specific number of times per year.
Major sports magazines in print include:
| Sports magazine | Sport/s | Frequency | Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the... |
General Sports | weekly |  United States |
| SportsEvents Magazine | General Sports | monthly | United States |
| ESPN The Magazine ESPN The Magazine ESPN The Magazine is a bi-weekly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in Bristol, Connecticut in the United States. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998.... |
General Sports | bi-weekly | United States |
| Sporting News | General Sports | bi-weekly | United States |
| Sports Weekly Sports Weekly USA Today Sports Weekly is a weekly magazine that covers Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, NCAA baseball and the National Football League. In the February 15, 2006 issue, the magazine added coverage of NASCAR... |
Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... / NFL / NASCAR NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr... |
weekly | United States |
| FourFourTwo FourFourTwo FourFourTwo is a football magazine published by Haymarket. Published monthly, costing £4.50, and at about 164 pages long, it published its 200th edition in February 2011... |
Association football | monthly | United Kingdom |
| Match | Association football | weekly | United Kingdom |
| France Football France Football France Football is a French bi-weekly magazine containing football news from all over the world. It's one of the most reputable sports publications in Europe, mostly because of their photographic reports and accurate statistics of the big European Cup matches, and extensive coverage of the European... |
Association football | bi-weekly |  France |
| Soccer America | Association football | monthly | United States |
| World Soccer | Association football | monthly | United Kingdom |
| Pro Football Weekly Pro Football Weekly Pro Football Weekly is an American sports magazine, founded in 1967, that covers the National Football League... |
American Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by... (NFL) |
weekly | United States |
| Baseball Digest Baseball Digest Baseball Digest is a baseball magazine resource, published in Evanston, Illinois by Lakeside Publishing Company. It is the oldest and longest-running baseball magazine in the United States.... |
Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... |
8 times a year | United States |
| Basketball Times Basketball Times Basketball Times is an American basketball magazine that has been in circulation since 1978, and is published by The Hoop Group LLC. Basketball Times publishes monthly and mainly focuses on college basketball and basketball recruiting.- History :... |
Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... |
monthly | United States |
| Hoop Hoop (magazine) HOOP is an official NBA publication, produced bi-monthly. It features in-depth interviews with top NBA players, and also highlights the players' lives off the court.Other popular sections include celebrity interviews and Dance Life... |
Basketball | bi-monthly | United States |
| SLAM SLAM Magazine SLAM Magazine is an American basketball magazine in circulation since 1994, published by Source Interlink. SLAM publishes nine issues a year to its circulation of over 500,000 readers worldwide.-History:... |
Basketball | 9 times per year | United States |
| Dime Magazine Dime Magazine Dime Magazine is an American basketball magazine that began circulation in 2001. Dime publishes six issues a year for its worldwide readership, as well as a handful of editions of Dime China, a Chinese-language version consisting of regular Dime content translated from English and original content... |
Basketball | 10 times a year | United States |
| Boxing News Boxing News Boxing News is the longest-running boxing magazine still in publication, dating back to 1909. Owned by Newsquest Specialist Media .-History:Boxing News was founded in 1909 by original editor John Murray as, simply, Boxing... |
Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds... |
weekly | United Kingdom |
| Boxing Monthly Boxing Monthly Boxing Monthly is a British magazine dedicated to boxing. Glyn Leach is the long-term editor, owner and publisher. Other contributors include veteran journalist Graham Houston, ex Ring Magazine editor Steve Farhood, Ron Borges and Steve Bunce.... |
Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds... |
monthly | United Kingdom |
| The Ring The Ring (magazine) The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication... |
Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds... |
monthly | United States |
| Fight! Magazine | MMA Mixed martial arts Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be... |
monthly | United States |
| Golf Magazine Golf Magazine Golf Magazine is a monthly golf magazine owned by Time Inc.. It was started in 1960 by Universal Publishing and Distributing, who sold it to Times Mirror in 1972. Time Inc. acquired it in 2000. It was the world's most widely read golf publication from August 2006 to January 2007. The magazine is... |
Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... |
monthly | United States |
| The Hockey News The Hockey News The Hockey News, commonly abbreviated to THN, is a North American ice hockey magazine published by Transcontinental. The Hockey News was founded in 1947 by Ken McKenzie and Bill Côté, and has since been the most recognized hockey publication in North America... |
Ice hockey Ice hockey Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take... |
weekly |  Canada |
| Rugby League Week Rugby League Week Rugby League Week is the second highest selling Australian rugby league magazine, behind major competitor Big League... |
Rugby League Rugby league Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players... |
weekly |  Australia |
| Sidewalk Sidewalk magazine Sidewalk is an English language magazine covering skateboarding culture published by Factory Media.-History:Originally known as Sidewalk Surfer at its inception it later changed its name to the current Sidewalk moniker... |
Skateboarding Skateboarding Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report... |
Monthly | United Kingdom |
| The Skateboard Mag The Skateboard Mag The Skateboard Mag is an independently published skateboarding magazine. Internal tensions between the Transworld Skateboarding magazine staff and owners AOL Time Warner prompted a walkout of several key editorial members, including J Grant Britain, Dave Swift and Atiba Jefferson, to form The... |
Skateboarding | Monthly | United States |
| Transworld Skateboarding Transworld Skateboarding Transworld SKATEboarding is a skateboarding magazine, website, and production company.Founded in 1983, TWS was a response to Thrasher Magazine and specifically to the December 1982 article ‘Skate and Destroy’ written by C.R... |
Skateboarding | 14 times a year | United States |
| Tennis | Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... |
monthly | United States |