In the late 70’s and in the early 80’s when television was in its nascent stage it was sports magazines that gave sports entertainment with great pictures and posters. All these magazines were also edited by some very great sports celebrities like Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Tiger Pataudi edited sports World from Anand Bazar Patrika group. We had Sportsweek from the Mid- Day group which was edited by Khalid Ansari and had a panel of great sports writers. And finally Sportstar from the Hindu group, which used to come earlier as a sports tabloid under the name Sports and Pastime. Believe me I used to be a kid in those days and use to run a sports library and buy all the sports magazine and share with fellow sports followers. I really miss those days. Today with the advent of media, which has technologically made a lot of advancement, has enabled sports lover to go online and get all the views and news.
One had to pay some money to buy these sports magazines. Today thanks to Internet and extensive coverage by the mainline dailies devoting more pages for sports has replaced the sports magazines. Sportstar is the only magazine which has survived and is still managing to deliver the best value in the sports magazine category.
While Internet and electronic channel has replaced these sports magazines but it is very difficult to get the look, feel and the language when you think of writers like Jack Fingleton and those fantastic pictures of Patrick Eagar.
Although Cricket Talk tried to make an entry in the year 2000 but could not sustain it and the magazines died a natural death.
Can we once again have a great sports magazine ?
http://www.sportstaronnet.com/
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