Sporting Life (newspaper)

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The Sporting Life is a former British newspaper that was published between 1859 and 1998.

In 1883 it became a daily newspaper, and then in 1886 it acquired its rival - Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (est. 1822) - dubbing itself 'the oldest sporting paper in the world'.

The paper continued through to May 1998 when it was merged with Racing Post. A proposed relaunch as a sports newspaper was aborted in 1999.

Before the newspaper arm closed, Sporting Life launched a multi-sports website - sportinglife.com - in December 1996. This continued as a joint venture between Trinity Mirror and The Press Association (PA Sporting Life Ltd) until the website was sold to ukbetting PLC on 14th October 2001.

Based in Leeds, the site lives on to this day as part of ukbetting's TEAMtalk Media content network run by a dedicated team of sports journalists and covers Football, Racing, Cricket, Golf, Tennis, Rugby Union, Rugby League, F1, Snooker, Greyhounds, Boxing and NFL. The site is known particularly for the speed of delivery of sports news, scores and results.

The Sporting Life newspaper was famed to have been the late Queen Mother's favourite paper.

A US paper of the same name ran from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924.