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]
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]
Sports magazines in print include:
| 11 Freunde | monthly | Germany | ||
| Athletics Weekly | weekly | United Kingdom | originated 1945 | |
| Autosport | weekly | United Kingdom | ||
| Baseball America | bi-weekly |  United States | ||
| Baseball Digest | Baseball | 8 times a year | United States | |
| Basketball Times | monthly | United States | ||
| Boxing Monthly | monthly | United Kingdom | ||
| Boxing News | Boxing | weekly | United Kingdom | |
| Dime Magazine | Basketball | 10 times a year | United States | |
| ESPN The Magazine | bi-weekly | United States | ||
| FourFourTwo | Association football | monthly | United Kingdom | |
| France Football | Association football | bi-weekly |  France | |
| Golf Magazine | monthly | United States | ||
| The Hockey News | weekly |  Canada | ||
| Hoop | Basketball | bi-monthly | United States | |
| Kicker | Association football | bi-weekly | Germany | |
| Match | Association football | weekly | United Kingdom | |
| National Masters News | 12 times a year | United States | originated 1977[6] [7] | |
| Sportstar | Fortnightly |  India | Originated 1978[8] | |
| Pro Football Weekly | American Football (NFL) | weekly | United States | |
| Pro Wrestling Illustrated | monthly | United States | ||
| The Ring | monthly | United States | ||
| Racer | 8 times a year | United States | ||
| Rugby League Review | monthly |  Australia | ||
| Runner's World | 12 times a year | United States | ||
| Sidewalk | monthly | United Kingdom | ||
| The Skateboard Mag | Skateboarding | monthly | United States | |
| SLAM | Basketball | 9 times per year | United States | |
| Soccer America | Association football | monthly | United States | |
| Sporting News | bi-weekly | United States | originated March 17, 1886.[9] | |
| Sports Illustrated | weekly | United States | originated 1954 [10] | |
| Sports Weekly | weekly | United States | ||
| Tennis | 8 times a year | United States | ||
| Track & Field News | 12 times a year | United States | ||
| Transworld Skateboarding | Skateboarding | 14 times a year | United States | |
| World Soccer | Association football | monthly | United Kingdom | |
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]