Inside Sports

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Inside Sports
Categories
Sports magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1979
Final issue1998
CompanyNewsweek
Century Publishing
CountryUnited States
Based inEvanston, 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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