ESPN The Magazine
ESPN The Magazine was an American monthly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in Bristol, Connecticut. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998. Initially published every other week, it scaled back to 24 issues a year in early 2016, then became a monthly in its later days.
| Editor In Chief | Alison Overholt |
|---|---|
| Categories | Sports |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (June 2018) | 2,144,483 |
| First issue | November 3, 1998 |
| Final issue | September 2019 |
| Company | ESPN Inc. (The Walt Disney Company/Hearst Communications) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Bristol, Connecticut |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://insider.espn.com/insider/espn-the-magazine/ |
| ISSN | 1097-1998 |
The main sports covered include Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, college basketball, and college football. The magazine typically took a more lighthearted and humorous approach to sporting news compared with competitors such as Sports Illustrated and, previously, the Sporting News.
On April 30, 2019, ESPN announced that it would cease paper publishing in September of that year. A multiplatform monthly story called ESPN Cover Story was launched to continue the magazine's legacy featuring a digital poster-style cover and profile in cover story fashion, including the continuation of NEXT Athlete proclamations and The Body Issue, but these two features did not return.