The Daily Sport

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The Daily Sport is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom by Sport Newspapers. The content of the newspaper is largely soft pornography. It is substantially more downmarket than other British tabloids such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror which do make some attempt to cover serious news. Its Sunday edition is called The Sunday Sport and was the first edition to be published, starting in the 1980s.

The Sunday Sport, in its original incarnation, was more akin to the US papers the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News, carrying spoof stories (most famously World War II bomber found on Moon — followed up the next week with World War II bomber found on Moon disappears), supplemented by glamour photography and heavy sport coverage. The concept of taking the tabloid editorial style to its extreme was novel to the UK market and was initially successful, however sales diminished and the paper dropped the satirical content in favour of pornography. The success of this move led to daily editions being published.

The Daily Sport's news coverage is generally taken from agency and wire copy with an emphasis on celebrities, bad behaviour and toilet humour. But look through it and all the day's major stories will be there, though perhaps just as a couple of paragraphs. The newspaper will occasionally feature a fake nude picture of a celebrity on its front cover. The story is usually "X's fury at fake nude pics, see inside for more".

The newspaper is noted for launching the careers of numerous nude models, most notably Linsey Dawn McKenzie, who began posing topless for the newspaper when she was 16 (the age of consent for such activity in Britain being, at the time, lower than the 18 threshold in other parts of the world).

The newspaper is said to have an associated phrase where readers often claim to "only read the publication for the sport" and claim to have little interest in the nude models on the other pages. Many people who hear this phrase suspect that this is a lie. When Private Eye once produced a spoof version of the Daily Sport in a yearbook, they changed the legally-obligatory small print phrase Registered at the Post Office as a newspaper to Registered at the Post Office as an aid to masturbation.Template:UK-newspaper-stub