This article is devoted to the problems of linguistic and extra-linguistic peculiarities of texts in sport reporting as a kind of sport discourse. Texts of sports report, presenting an implementation of oral public speech, are prepared beforehand as compared to colloquial speech, so the content possesses logical-semantic structure, determined by a specific topic. Logical-semantic structure of the text is shown in the selection of language means. Compositional and stylistic features of a sports report are based on the rules of its construction. Violation of these rules leads to a variety of errors in the speech of sports journalists. The article provides examples of various violations of linguistic norms of the literary language and the requirements to the utterance. The speech of sports journalists is considered in two forms: monologue and dialogue. Results of described texts of sports report can be used in practice during the study of the discipline “Russian language and culture of speech”, as well as in teaching Russian as a foreign language (for teaching listening).