Inside Sports
Categories | Sports magazine |
---|---|
Frequency | Monthly |
Founded | 1979 |
Final issue | 1998 |
Company | Newsweek Century Publishing |
Country | United States |
Based in | Evanston, Illinois |
Inside Sports magazine was a major general interest sports magazine in the
SPORT Magazine brands. In addition to 12 issues a year, it featured a "Swimsuit Spectacular" (IS' answer to the famous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
).
In 1982, Inside Sports was acquired by
Petersen Publishing Company
, owner of longtime rival SPORT, and merged the two magazines under the SPORT title.
In the two years that followed, SPORT was bought by
ESPN the Magazine
began filling Inside Sports' old niche in 1998. In August 2000, after appearing every month for 54 years, SPORT magazine ceased publication, thus ending the lineage of Inside Sports.
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