10 Sports News Website Examples Built with Ghost
Sports readers may arrive looking for their team, the latest result, or a longer piece of analysis. A homepage needs to help them find that coverage without giving every story the same prominence.
These ten Ghost sports websites show different ways to handle that task. They come from the customer showcase. Nine use Tripoli, showing how publishers adapt the same theme through branding, navigation, and story selection. Legendary Upside uses Penang, with an introduction and signup form above the articles.
Statistics pages and external tools are customer additions, with setup separate from the theme.
Teams and Competitions
The right navigation depends on what readers follow. A national publication may organize by league; a regional or college publication may need schools, conferences, teams, or individual sports. Reporting formats can provide another route once the subject is clear.
Backheeled
Backheeled covers American soccer, including MLS, USL, and the U.S. men’s national team. League labels such as MLS and USL divide a national publication by competition. A reader can stay with one league without browsing every team the site covers.
Theme: Tripoli.
Sounder at Heart
Sounder at Heart publishes news, opinion, and analysis about the Seattle Sounders and Seattle Reign. Its navigation connects the reporting with team resources such as depth charts, standings, and schedules.
Theme: Tripoli.
HBCU Fan
HBCU Fan covers sports at historically Black colleges and universities. Its school and conference links give readers a route beyond the sport labels. A supporter following one institution has a different starting point from someone following all basketball coverage.
Theme: Tripoli.
R1S1
R1S1, also branded Wave the Wheat, covers University of Kansas athletics. Because the publication stays with Kansas athletics, sport labels do the organizing work that league labels do on Backheeled. Football, basketball and volleyball can share one identity while remaining separate reading choices.
Theme: Tripoli.
SixOneFive Soccer
SixOneFive Soccer covers soccer in Nashville, including Nashville SC. Separate links for analysis, match recaps, and roster moves let readers choose the kind of reporting they need.
Theme: Tripoli.
Northland Soccer Journal
Northland Soccer Journal covers professional, women’s, college, high-school, and non-league soccer in one regional publication. Links for the different levels of the game keep local school reporting reachable alongside professional coverage. The region unites the publication; the navigation separates the competitions within it.
Theme: Tripoli.
Lead Stories and Recent News
A selected feature and a compact recent-news list serve different reading speeds. The feature gives a longer story room; the list lets returning readers scan what has happened since their last visit.
BasketEurope
BasketEurope covers French and European basketball through news, interviews, and videos. A compact news feed beside the lead story lets readers scan short updates while keeping longer reporting prominent.
Theme: Tripoli.
Pitchside US
Pitchside US covers MLS, Concacaf, and U.S. soccer through reporting and analysis. Large lead photography sits beside smaller stories and a compact list of recent reports.
Theme: Tripoli.
MIR97 Media
MIR97 Media covers the Chicago Fire, MLS, and other soccer stories. Its homepage presents podcast episodes alongside written reporting, with category labels distinguishing the formats.
Theme: Tripoli.
Legendary Upside
Legendary Upside publishes fantasy football analysis for Best Ball, season-long leagues, and Dynasty. A short publication introduction beside the email signup explains the offer before visitors subscribe.
Theme: Penang.
Homepage Priorities
Compare Tripoli for featured stories, Editors’ Picks, homepage topic sections, and author and tag directories. Compare Penang for a homepage introduction and signup form, topic navigation, and member-access labels.
The choice is whether visitors need to catch up on coverage immediately or understand the publication’s offer first. The Tripoli examples lead with stories; Legendary Upside gives the introduction and signup that first space.
