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 print magazine. It became the dominant American publication covering

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, acquiring the nickname "The Bible of Baseball." From 2002 to February 2022, it was known simply as ''Sporting News''. In December 2012, ''Sporting News'' ended print publication and shifted to a digital-only publication. It currently has editions in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan.

History

Early history

*March 17, 1886: ''The Sporting News'' (''TSN''), founded in St. Louis by Alfred H. Spink, a director of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, publishes its first edition. The weekly newspaper sells for 5 cents. Baseball, horse racing and professional wrestling received the most coverage in the first issue. Meanwhile, the sporting weeklies ''Clipper'' and ''Sporting Life'' were based in New York and Philadelphia. By World War I, ''TSN'' would be the only national baseball newspaper. *1901: The American League, another rival to baseball's National League, begins playing. ''TSN'' was a vocal supporter of the new league and its founder,

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. Both parties advocated cleaning up the sport, in particular ridding it of liquor sales, gambling and assaults on umpires. *1903: ''TSN'' editor Arthur Flanner helps draft the National Agreement, a document that brought a truce between the AL and NL and helped bring about the modern

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. *1904: New York photographer

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begins taking portraits of major league players as they pass through the city's three ballparks: the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field. His images, many of which were featured in ''TSN'', have become treasured symbols of baseball's past. *1914: Alfred's son, J.G. Taylor Spink, takes over the paper. *1936: ''TSN'' names its first major league

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Carl Hubbell Carl Owen Hubbell (June 22, 1903 – November 21, 1988), nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League from 1928 to 1943, and remained o ...

of the New York Giants. It is the oldest and most prestigious award given to the single player in MLB who had the most outstanding season. To this day, it remains voted on by MLB players. *1942: After decades of being intertwined with baseball, ''TSN'' adds in-season football coverage. *1946: ''TSN'' expands its football coverage with an eight-page tabloid publication titled ''The Quarterback''. The tab is later renamed the ''All-Sports News'' as coverage of other sports is added, including professional and college basketball and hockey. *1962: J.G. Taylor Spink dies. His son C.C. Johnson Spink takes over the publication. In 1962, after Spink's death, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) instituted the J. G. Taylor Spink Award as the highest award given to its members. Spink was also the first recipient. *1967: ''TSN'' publishes its first full-color photo, a cover image of Orioles star Frank Robinson. *1977: The Spink family sells ''TSN'' to Times Mirror in 1977. *1981: C.C. Johnson Spink sells ''TSN'' to Tribune Company. *1991: ''The Sporting News'' transitions to a glossy, full-color all-sports magazine. *1996: ''The Sporting News'' comes online, serving as a sports content provider for AOL. The following year, it launches sportingnews.com. *2000: Tribune Company sells ''TSN'' to Vulcan Inc., headed by tech billionaire

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. The following year, the company acquired the One on One Sports radio network, renaming it Sporting News Radio. *2002: The magazine drops the definite article from its name and becomes just ''Sporting News'' (''SN''). Subsequent covers reflect the change. *2006: Vulcan sells ''SN'' to Advance Media, which places the publication under the supervision of

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(ACBJ). *2007: ''Sporting News'' begins its move from St. Louis, where it had been based since its founding, to ACBJ's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. The publication leaves St. Louis for good in 2008, when it also became a bi-weekly publication.

Transition to digital publication

In 2011, ''Sporting News'' announced a deal to take over editorial control of AOL's sports website

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. In December 2012, after 126 years, ''Sporting News'' published its final issue as a print publication, and shifted to becoming a digital-only publication. The following March, ACBJ contributed ''Sporting News'' into a joint venture with the U.S. assets of sports data company

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, known as Perform Sporting News Limited and doing business as Sporting News Media. Perform owned 65% of Sporting News Media. ''Sporting News'' would join Perform Group's other domestic properties, such as its video syndication unit ePlayer and its soccer website

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. The deal excluded the magazine's ''Sporting News Yearbooks'' unit and ''NASCAR Illustrated''. Almost immediately after the venture was established, ''Sporting News'' laid off 13 staff writers. Perform Group acquired the remainder of Sporting News Media in 2015. Under Perform's ownership, ''Sporting News'' shifted to a more

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-like editorial direction. The site introduced a new logo and website design in 2016. Following Perform's acquisition of ACBJ's remaining stake, it began to align itself more closely with the company's other units, including replacing

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articles with Perform's own Omnisport wire service for articles and video content (which began to constitute a sizable portion of the site's overall content). ''Sporting News'' also began to introduce new localized versions in other markets, with a focus on countries where it had launched its sports streaming service DAZN. These sites are, in turn, used to promote the DAZN service. Perform Media president Juan Delgado explained that the company was trying to preserve the heritage of the ''Sporting News'' brand by still publishing original content, while also publishing content oriented towards

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to appeal to younger users.

Later history

In September 2018, Perform Group spun out its consumer properties, including ''Sporting News'' and DAZN, into a new company known as DAZN Group. The remaining sports data business became Perform Content, and was sold in 2019 to Vista Equity Partners and merged with

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. In the summer of 2020,

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of St. Charles, Missouri, acquired the archives collection of ''The Sporting News'' from ACBJ. The collection was described as consisting of "10,000+ books on baseball, football, hockey, basketball, NCAA, and other sports." In December 2020, DAZN Group sold Sporting News to a private investment consortium, which became Sporting News Holdings.

Athlete of the Year

Sportsman of the Year

From 1968 to 2008, the magazine selected one or more individuals as ''Sportsman of the Year''. On four occasions, the award was shared by two recipients. Twice, in 1993 and 2000, the award went to a pair of sportsmen within the same organization. In 1999, the honor was given to a whole team. No winner was chosen in 1987. On December 18, 2007, the magazine announced

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Tom Brady as 2007 Sportsman of the Year, making Brady the first to repeat as a recipient of individual honors. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals was also honored twice, but shared his second award with

Sammy Sosa Samuel Peralta Sosa (born November 12, 1968) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 19 seasons, primarily with the Chicago Cubs. After playing for the Texas Rangers and C ...

of the

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. In 2009, the award was replaced by two awards: "Pro Athlete of the Year" and "College Athlete of the Year". These in turn were replaced by a singular "Athlete of the Year" award starting in 2011. *1968 –

Denny McLain Dennis Dale McLain (born March 29, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player. He played for ten seasons in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Detroit Tigers. In 1968, McLain beca ...

Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) Central division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was f ...

*1969 – Tom Seaver,

New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major lea ...

*1970 –

John Wooden John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood, he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as hea ...

, UCLA basketball *1971 –

Lee Trevino Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is an American retired professional golfer who is regarded as one of the greatest players in golf history. He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981. Trevino won six major championships and ...

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

*1972 –

Charlie Finley Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 – February 19, 1996), nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American businessman who owned Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics. Finley purchased the franchise while it was located in Kansas ...

, Oakland A's *1973 – O. J. Simpson,

Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division ...

*1974 –

Lou Brock Louis Clark Brock (June 18, 1939September 6, 2020) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the 1961 Chicago Cubs but spent most of it as a left fielder for the St. Louis ...

, St. Louis Cardinals *1975 – Archie Griffin, Ohio State football *1976 –

Larry O'Brien Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. (July 7, 1917September 28, 1990) was an American politician and basketball commissioner. He was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades. He served as Pos ...

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball sports league, league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues i ...

commissioner *1977 – Steve Cauthen,

horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic pr ...

*1978 – Ron Guidry,

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one ...

*1979 – Willie Stargell,

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Founded as part of the American Associati ...

*1980 –

George Brett George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953) is an American former professional baseball player who played all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. Brett's 3,154 career hits are second- ...

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

*1981 –

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Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. They play their home games at Rogers Place, which ...

*1982 –

Whitey Herzog Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog (; born November 9, 1931) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and manager, most notable for his Major League Baseball (MLB) managerial career. He made his MLB debut as a player in 1956 ...

, St. Louis Cardinals *1983 –

Bowie Kuhn Bowie Kent Kuhn (; October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984. He served as legal counsel for M ...

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*1984 – Peter Ueberroth,

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organizer *1985 – Pete Rose,

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

*1986 – Larry Bird,

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*1987 – ''(none)'' *1988 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee,

*1989 – Joe Montana,

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's Nationa ...

*1990 – Nolan Ryan, Texas Rangers *1991 –

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, Chicago Bulls *1992 – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke basketball *1993 – Cito Gaston and Pat Gillick,

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...

*1994 –

Emmitt Smith Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. Among other accolades, he is the le ...

Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divis ...

*1995 –

Cal Ripken Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed " The Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001). One of his pos ...

Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. As one of the American League's eight charter ...

*1996 – Joe Torre,

*1997 – Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals *1998 – Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals, and

(see also 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase) *1999 –

*2000 – Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner, St. Louis Rams *2001 – Curt Schilling, Arizona Diamondbacks *2002 – Tyrone Willingham,

Notre Dame football The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate College football, football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana (CDP), Notre Dame, Indiana, north of the city of South Bend, Indiana. The team pla ...

*2003 –

Dick Vermeil Richard Albert Vermeil (; born October 30, 1936) is a former American football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. He was the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles for seven seasons, the St. L ...

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, and Jack McKeon, Florida Marlins *2004 – Tom Brady,

*2005 –

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, USC football *2006 – LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego Chargers *2007 – Tom Brady,

*2008 – Eli Manning,

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Pro Athlete of the Year

*2009 –

Mariano Rivera Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", he spent most ...

, New York Yankees *2010 – Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies

College Athlete of the Year

*2009 – Colt McCoy, Texas football *2010 –

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, Duke men's basketball

Athlete of the Year

Beginning in 2011, the awards were merged back into a singular selection, ''Athlete of the Year''. *2011 –

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*2012 – LeBron James, Miami Heat *2021 – Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels

Sport-specific awards

Major League Baseball

''SN'' sponsors its own annual Team,

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, Reliever, Comeback Player,

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, and

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of the Year awards. Many fans once held the newspaper's baseball awards at equal or higher esteem than those of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Prior to 2005, the ''SN'' Comeback Player Award was generally recognized as the principal award of its type, as MLB did not give such an award until that year. * ''The Sporting News'' Most Valuable Player Award (discontinued in 1946) * ''Sporting News'' Player of the Year (all positions; in MLB) * ''Sporting News'' Pitcher of the Year (in each league) * ''Sporting News'' Rookie of the Year (from 1963 through 2003, there were two categories: Rookie Pitcher of the Year and Rookie Player of the Year) * ''Sporting News'' Reliever of the Year (discontinued in 2011) * ''Sporting News'' Comeback Player of the Year * ''Sporting News'' Manager of the Year (in each league (1986–present); in MLB (1936–1985)) * ''Sporting News'' Executive of the Year (in MLB)

Minor League Baseball

* ''The Sporting News'' Minor League Player of the Year Award (1936–2007)

Basketball

*''Sporting News''

NBA Executive of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Executive of the Year Award is an annual award given since the 1972–73 NBA season, to the league's best general manager, president of basketball/business operations, or another high-ranking executive. Befor ...

(1973–2008) * ''Sporting News'' Men's College Basketball Player of the Year * ''Sporting News'' Men’s College Basketball Coach of the Year Award

NFL

* ''Sporting News'' NFL Player of the Year Award (1954–1969 and since 1980) ** ''Sporting News'' AFC and NFC player of the year awards (1970–1979) * ''Sporting News'' NFL Rookie of the Year Award * ''Sporting News'' NFL Coach of the Year (since 1947) * ''Sporting News'' All-Pro Team (since 1980)From the 1950s through 1979, ''The Sporting News'' published All-Conference teams. In 1980 it began choosing an All-Pro team. * ''Sporting News'' All-Conference Team (from 1950s till 1979) (defunct)

College football awards

* ''Sporting News'' College Football Player of the Year (1942) * ''Sporting News'' All-America Team (1934) * ''Sporting News'' College Football Coach of the Year Also, between 1975 and 2005, Sporting News conducted an annual poll and named a national champion for Division I-A (now Division I FBS). It is regarded as a "major selector" in NCAA official records books.

Notable staff

* Thomas G. Osenton, president and chief operating officer of Sporting News Publishing Company and publisher of ''The Sporting News'' weekly * Bob Ferguson, journalist and author of ''Who's Who In Canadian Sport''

Footnotes

External links

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