Sporting Life (British newspaper)

For the US newspaper of the same name, published from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924, see Sporting Life (US sports journal)

The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published from 1859 until 1998, best known for its coverage of horse racing.[1] 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).[1] The paper continued publication until its merger with the Racing Post in May 1998; a proposed relaunch was aborted in 1999.[2]

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 Group (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. [3]

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.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Brake & Demoor 2009, p. 594
  2. ↑ Reid, Jamie (5 March 1999), "The murder of this Sporting Life", The Guardian, retrieved 9 October 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing-champion-jockey-wins-libel-case-1147254.html

Bibliography

  • Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa, eds. (2009), "Sporting Life (1859–1998)", Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, Academia Press, ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8 

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