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Templates for sport sites are one of those exceptional ones which usually cannot be light and too minimalistic. A sports site's appearance has to be such that it excites adrenaline on the first view of the frontpage where the appearance should suit the sport or the sport theme the website is portraying.

Sporter – GavickPro

Move your mouse over imageDedicated to sports fans, Sporter from GavickPro, as the name suggests is a template which can be a great choice for a sports themed website. Sporter packs all the tools and environments, from photos to computer graphics, needed to develop the most ambitious sports website projects.

Based on the T3 framework, the template provides a flexible and powerful user friendly interface and supports the K2 component. The template also has built-in support for News Show Pro GK4 and Jcomments. Sporter has inbuilt Google and Squirell fonts and is mobile ready.

Bottom-line: Given its extensiveness, Sporter can be the perfect template for making a sports website or more importantly a sports portal.

JM Sportswear – Joomla Monster

Move your mouse over imageAn easy to customize template, JM Sportswear from Joomla Monster is another great template from the sports category which has recently been 'refreshed' (updated). In JM Sportswear the header and header2 are located as absolute positions thereby providing a chance to use two images overlapping each other to create various image effects. This enables the template to load faster. Although the template name says 'Sportswear', owing to the layout and number of module positions, the template can be used for any kind of sports website. The default theme of the template can even be perfect for a soccer website.

Bottom-line: With its dark theme and a neat layout with lots of module positions, especially for photos, the JM Sportswear makes for one of the few perfect sports templates for Joomla 1.5.

HOT Sportal – Hot Joomla Templates

Move your mouse over imageHOT Sportal from Hot Joomla Templates when combined with other Joomla components can deliver a perfect sports news portal. The incorporated Hot Joomla Carousel Pro can make the articles stand out, especially on the frontpage and the new Hot Scroller module can help create a Joomla news ticker for latest news. A latest addition to the template is the Hot Lightbox module which makes creating slide-shows just a breeze.

A 100% CSS based template, it is an ideal choice for a sports news portal as it is a lot SEO friendly. HOT Sportal has 22 fully collapsible module positions and comes in five pre-defined styles where each color is customizable in parameters giving infinite color combinations.

Bottom-line: HOT Sportal combined with the power of Joomla and Joomla extensions can make for a perfect sports news portal.