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.

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 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".

Sports magazines in print include:

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