USA Today Sports Weekly is a weekly magazine that covers Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, NCAA baseball and the National Football League. It was founded as USA Today Baseball Weekly in 1991 and changed its name on 4 September 2002 when it added the NFL. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... Minor League Baseball, formerly the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and also known in the past as NAPBL, National Baseball Association, and NA, is the organization which oversees the governing and organization of minor league baseball in North America. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

In the 15 February 2006 issue, the magazine added coverage of NASCAR. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...

Sports Weekly is a publication of USA Today and shares both a headquarters in McLean, Va. and production facilities with its parent publication. USA Today is, in turn, owned by Gannett. In late 2005, the newsroom of Sports Weekly merged with USA Today's Sports department. USA Today is a national American newspaper published by the Gannett Corporation. ... A gannet Gannett Company, Inc. ...

Sports Weekly is printed on newsprint and distributed throughout the United States and Canada. Regular editions are published on Wednesdays. Special editions previewing events or covering fantasy sports are released several times each year on better quality newsprint. Newsprint is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. ... A Fantasy sport is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. ...

In pop culture

• In a 2006 episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin is seen reading Sports Weekly on a plane to London.
• In the movie Summer Catch, an announcers booth at a Cape Cod League stadium is lit on fire when a cigarette ash falls on a pile of fictional Baseball Weekly issues.
• In the movie Shallow Hal, the character Mauricio (Jason Alexander) is shown reading a copy of Baseball Weekly.