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n. active interest in gambling on sports events
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The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published from 1859 until 1998, best known for its coverage of horse racing. Latterly it has continued as a multi-sports website.
Priced at one penny, the Sporting Life initially appeared twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It became a daily newspaper in 1883, and in 1886 acquired its rival, Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (est. 1822). The paper continued publication until its merger with the Racing Post in May 1998; a proposed relaunch was aborted in 1999.
On 20 December 1996, before the newspaper arm closed, Sporting Life launched an online version of the paper, sportinglife.com. The site was run as a joint venture between Trinity Mirror and The Press Association until PA Sporting Life Ltd was sold to 365 Media Group1 (then known as ukbetting plc, now a division of British Sky Broadcasting) on 14 October 2001.
In February 1998 the newspaper lost a High Court libel action with racehorse owners Jack and Linda Ramsden, as well as jockey Kieren Fallon.
The Sporting Life was said to be the late Queen Mother's favourite newspaper. The eccentric racing pundit John McCririck was a journalist on the paper and later wrote a column for the website.
Sporting Life may refer to:
- a character in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess
- Sporting Life (retailer), a sporting goods retailer based in Toronto, Canada
- Sporting Life (British newspaper), a defunct British racing newspaper
- Sporting Life (American newspaper), a defunct US newspaper
- This Sporting Life (radio program), a radio program in Australia
- This Sporting Life, a 1960 novel by David Storey
The Sporting Life was an American weekly newspaper, published from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924, that provided national coverage on sports with a particular focus on baseball and trap shooting. The masthead on the front page of newspaper displayed the motto (shown in image at right): "Devoted To Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports." It was founded in Philadelphia in 1883 by Francis Richter, Thomas Sotesbury Dando, and August Rudolph. Richter was the newspaper's publisher until 1917. He hired correspondents to report from locales across the United States and continued to publish and edit the Sporting Life until 1917. Throughout most of its existence, it was in competition with The Sporting News, which was founded in 1886 and published by the Spink brothers in St. Louis. By 1890, it had "the largest circulation of any sporting or baseball newspaper" in the United States. By 1886, the publication had a circulation base of 40,000 subscribers. Henry Chadwick, sometimes called the "father of baseball", was a regular contributor to the Sporting Life.
The Sporting Life also published several early series of baseball cards that were offered to subscribers. The pre-World War I baseball cards published by the Sporting Life are among the most popular and scarce in the baseball collectible business. The popular series issued by Sporting Life include the M116 series issued in 1910 and 1911 and the W600 series issued from 1902 to 1911.
Back issues of the Sporting Life are accessible in digital format through the LA84 Foundation's digital sports library.