sports pages

Newspaper game results

The sports pages are the section of a newspaper devoted to coverage of athletic events, scores, standings, and related news.

The term persists even as print newspapers decline: He still reads the sports pages every morning online.

Someone who follows professional athletics might be described as living in the sports pages.

Opposites
newspaper section type

sports pagesfront page

Newspaper's opening display

news section · hard news · world news · society pages · business section

news gravitas/seriousness

sports pagesfront page

Newspaper's opening display

hard news · breaking news · headline news · lead story · world news

Family

sport, page, sports, pages, sporting, sportive, sporty, sportsman, sportsmanship

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G