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. History. Sports journalism started covering sporting events in the United States in the 1800s in newspaper and magazine format. The "Sporting News" being the oldest, and was first published March 17, 1886. "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". 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, Outing (magazine), Public Ledger, and The Athletic World (Canada)