Definition of Sports section

1. Noun. The section of a newspaper that reports on sports.

Terms within: Sports Page
Group relationships: Newspaper, Paper
Generic synonyms: Section, Subdivision

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sports Section

sports coat
sports commentator
sports day
sports days
sports desk
sports editor
sports equipment
sports fan
sports final
sports ground
sports implement
sports jacket
sports medicine
sports meeting
sports page
sports section (current term)
sports stadium
sports writer
sportsaholic
sportsaholics
sportsbook
sportsbooks
sportscar
sportscars
sportscast
sportscaster
sportscasters
sportscasting
sportscasts
sportsfield

Literary usage of Sports section

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kids And Media@the New Millennium: A Comprehensive National Analysis Of by Donald F. Roberts (1999)
"Slightly more boys than girls read national news, but the difference is not reliable. Substantially more boys than girls read the sports section. ..."

2. Authentic Reading Practice Grades 4-6 by Jo Ellen Moore (2001)
"The sports section is full of numbers! Students are using important reading ... When you examine a sports section for yourself, you will undoubtedly come up ..."

3. Retrospection, Political and Personal by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1912)
"... high or low, usually low, with sections emanating from brains warped by nature but with added disorganization for the purpose, a sports section; ..."

4. Retrospection, Political and Personal by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1912)
"... a sports section; a comic section, which eradicates in the youthful imagination whatever taste for art it might otherwise possess; a section of oafs 14 ..."

5. Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism by Adrian Hadland (2005)
"It is here, in the sports section, that you will expose yourself to the most rigorous examination by your readership. Given people's passion for sport, ..."

6. Cruising The Eastern Caribbean by Laura Rapp (2004)
"The sports section lists phone numbers of hotels with tennis courts. The shopping section describes good buys and lists names and addresses of shopping ..."

7. A Bibliography of Physical Training by James Huff McCurdy, Jacob Titus Bowne (1905)
"Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sports, Section III., pp. 11-17. P231.1 Early Boxers and Rules. O'Reilly, John Boyle. Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sports, ..."

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