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Sport Records

Drawer SPORT

The Sport drawer holds eleven records, the fourth largest of the seven and 9 per cent of everything held in a drawer. They run from June 2017 to December 2020. Five of them carry a 2017 filing date. The heaviest single month is June 2017, with two.

Boxing, football and motorsport, including the odds quoted at the time. The drawers are subject classes rather than departments, so a record appears once, in the drawer it was reported under. Each keeps the address it was published at, with its filing date printed on it.

How the drawer fills

The eleven records sit across seven calendar months inside a span of 43, so the drawer was worked in bursts rather than kept up month by month. That is 1.6 records for each month the drawer was open. The longest quiet stretch runs 21 months, between February 2019 and December 2020. The earliest filing is Nike airs 'Debate This' ad after Kevin Durant becomes National Basketball Association champion; the latest is Claressa Shields: MMA Treats Women Better Than Boxing Does.

The archive as a whole covers 43 months. This drawer was open in 44 per cent of the months anything was filed at all, and it is one of the drawers the archive opens with. Sparse drawers are kept as they were found rather than merged into fuller ones: the address a record was published at is the thing worth preserving, and folding a drawer away would break the path that leads to it.

Filed alongside

In the same months that this drawer was open, the desk was also filing into Worldwide (34), Culture (10) and Economy (7). A record is filed once, in the drawer it was reported under, so a subject that straddles two classes sits in one of them and is reachable from the full index either way.

The other drawers are above. The full index — all 127 catalogued records, with a filter that reads titles, drawers and dates at once — is on the archive index.

Questions about the Sport drawer

How many records are in the Sport drawer?

Eleven, filed between June 2017 and December 2020. That is 9 per cent of the 124 records held in drawers, making it the fourth largest of the seven. The full index carries 127.

Which years does the Sport drawer cover?

2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Five of the eleven carry a 2017 date, more than any other year. The heaviest single month is June 2017, with two filings.

Why is there a gap in the Sport filings?

Nothing was filed into this drawer between February 2019 and December 2020, a stretch of 21 months. The archive is what the paper published, not a schedule it kept: a subject class goes quiet when the desk stops filing into it. Worldwide was the busiest drawer in the months this one was open.

What is the earliest Sport record?

"Nike airs 'Debate This' ad after Kevin Durant becomes National Basketball Association champion", filed 2017-06-15. The most recent is "Claressa Shields: MMA Treats Women Better Than Boxing Does", filed 2020-12-02. Every record keeps the address it was published at, so the June 2017 to December 2020 range is browsable by date from the full index.

2020

1 records

One record, filed in December, 9 per cent of the drawer.

2019

1 records

One record, filed in February, 9 per cent of the drawer.

2018

4 records

Four records, January to February, 36 per cent of the drawer.

2017

5 records

Five records, June to October, 45 per cent of the drawer.