Sports Zines.   Posted 27 June, 1992.  Unfortunately, all zines reviewed
by Jerod Pore.  Until we find someone else (please God!) send your
sports zines to Jerod Pore  1800 Market St. #141  San Francisco  CA
94102-6227.  This file is Shareright (s) 1992.  You may reproduce and/or
distribute this document at will, so long as others may reproduce and/or
distribute this document.

These are zines about sports.  I hate sports.  I can understand playing
them, although throwing a softball to my kid is about as far as I go.
But watching sports seems so pointless.  Sports zines are classified
into two categories:  Wrestling zines and everything else.  I hope
somebody who appreciates watching overpaid musclebrains make fools of
themselves can take over this group of zines.

Wrestling zines.  Surprisingly enduring and verbose for a sport whose
participants utter the same monosyllabic phrases over and over.

%Title:  Chokehold   Number 36
%Descr:  Final episode of Black Kayfabe serial.  Survey questions:  Hot
Love Babe from Hell,  Weirdest Body, Psyche Makeover.
%Info:   $1.50 each to Lance LeVine  507 W. 43rd Pl  Chicago  IL  60609
10 pages standard.


%Title:  Pro Wrestling Sushi  Number 38
%Descr:  News, which may or may not be real, with the same names over
and over, wrestlers and other wrestling fanzine editors segueing into
each other.  Compares some stupid wrestling match to the
Oakland/Berkeley fire.
%Info:   $1.50 each to Jeff Mullins  P.O. Box 36189  San Jose  CA  95158
10 pages standard.


%Title:  Wrestling Observer Newsletter
%Descr:  Somebody from the 50's dies.  Awards survey.  News and match
reviews from Mexico, Japan, Oregon and other exotic locales.  Letters.
%Info:   $6.00 for four to  P.O. Box 1228  Campbell  CA  95009-1228  10
pages standard.


%Title:  Wrestling Update Newsletter  Issue 16
%Descr:  Reviews of, and commentary on pay-per-view matches and pre-
match banter.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Dave Prazak  2278 Hidden Creek Court  Lisle
Illinois  60532-1168  9 pages standard.


%Title:  Combat Sports  Number 130
%Descr:  Steroid controversy (oh my!).  Wrestling news, more people
died.  Two pages of Roller Derby stuff.  Lots of ads for action figures,
TV videos, party favors, lunchboxes.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Michael O'Hara  P.O. Box 651  Gracie Station NY
NY  10028-0006  16 pages half legal.


%Title:  New Wave Wrestling  Number 1
%Descr:  Slick, big time, national version of the above.  News,
interviews, puzzles, penpals, comix.  Large typeface and lots of
pictures.  I wanna see more midgets.
%Info:   $1.95 each to Combat Sports  P.O. Box 651  Gracie Station NY NY
10028-0006  52 pages standard.


%Title:  Wrestling Chatterbox  Issue XX
%Descr:  News.  Reprints of promotional flyers from the 60's.  Match
reviews.  Zine reviews.  Subscribers can't figure out a word search
puzzle.
%Info:   $2.50 each to  Georgiann Makropoulos  23-44 30th Drive  Astoria
NY  11102-3253  28 pages standard.


%Title:  Wrestle Gram  Issue 30
%Descr:  News.  Match reviews.  Zine reviews.  Interviews.  Commentary.
Guessing the outcome of some BFD tournament.
%Info:   $2.00 each to  Boyce Johansen  5424 W. 69th Ave.  Arvada  CO
80003  10 pages standard.


%Title:  Fantasy Federation  Volume 3 Number 14
%Descr:  Commentary on promotion.  Blow-by-blow match reviews from
stalking entry to triumphant exit.  Zine reviews.
%Info:   $1.00 each to  Jeff Cohen  50 Shelley Lane  Great Neck  NY
11023  8 pages standard.


%Title:  Masters of the Ring  Volume 1 Number 5
%Descr:  Reader poll results from old zine on Mexican wrestlers.
Interviews.
%Info:   $4.00 each to  Dan Farren  8707-D Lindley  Suite 212
Northridge  CA  91325  32 pages, standard.


%Title:  Wrestling Perspective  Volume 2 Number 7
%Descr:  Analysis and commentary. Interviews, letters and zine reviews.
%Info:   $1.25 each to  PO Box 401  Camiluus  NY  13031  8 pages
standard.


%Title:  Wrestling World Examiner   Number 12
%Descr:  What's happening in the alphabet soup of local federations.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Paul Adamovic  Box 5  303 Stadium Pl.  Syracuse
NY  13210  8 pages standard.


%Title:  Mat Marketplace
%Descr:  Wrestling memorabilia want lists.  19th century wrestlers.
Wrestlers who cut records.  Alive or Dead trivia quiz.  Products, zine
reviews, classified ads.
%Info:   $2.50 to Sheldon Goldberg  P.O. Box 2371  Jamaica Plain  MA
02130  10 pages, standard.


%Title:  Wrestling Then & Now  Issue 23
%Descr:  Reprints of promotional flyers, fannish stuff, programs and
newspaper articles from the 40's through the 80's.  Letters, interviews
and articles illegible due to shitty typing and reproduction.  Vic
Stanley's stuff is hilarious.
%Info:   $1.50 each to  Evan Ginzburg  P.O. Box 471  Oakland Gardens
Station  Flushing  NY  11364  10 pages standard.


%Title:  Rod's Reflector  Volume 2 Number 15
%Descr:  A fanzine about wrestling fans.  Yup, who they are, what they
are like, if they believe in the reality of wrestling (yup).  Newspaper
reprints and zine reviews.
%Info:   $1.00 each to  Rodney Leighton  R.R. #3  Pugwash  Nova Scotia
B0K 1L0  10 pages standard.


Other sports zines.



%Title:  Roller Sports Report   Number 26
%Descr:  OK, I have a love/hate relationship with roller derby, probably
because my father was a professional whatever the hell you call them.
Race reviews and photos.  Reprints from various sources.  Nostalgia.
%Info:   $3.00 each or $20.00 a year to  Fred Argoff  1204 Avenue U
#1290  Brooklyn NY 11229  20 pages, digest.


%Title:  golf links   Volume 2  Number 1
%Descr:  Course review.  Tips.  Book reviews.  Nostalgia.
%Info:   $4.00 each to 5486 Georgetown Road  Frankfort  KY  40601  16
pages, standard.


%Title:  Bay Sports Review   Volume 1  Number 3
%Descr:  Sports bars.  Questions are asked at sporting events.  "Whose
(living or dead) sports skills would you like to possess?"  Not as
interesting as Duplex Planet.  Glossary and odds.
%Info:   $2.00 each to  Christopher Weills  PO Box 4520  Berkeley  CA
94704 16 pages, standard.


%Title:  OTB Mania   Volume III  Number V
%Descr:  Betting tips from a couple of guys who consitantly lose money
at the Aqueduct track.
%Info:   $2.00 each by fax.  Call 226-4149 (you guess the area code).  2
pages, standard.

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