The article deals with the problem of linguistic and extra-linguistic description of sport report texts as a variety of sports discourse. Texts of sports report, presenting an implementation of oral public speech, unlike informal texts, are prepared, so their content can be reduced to logical-semantic structure set by a specific theme. 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. The results of the described sports report texts can be used in practice in studying of the subject “Russian language. Culture of speech” and also in teaching Russian as a foreign language (teaching listening skills).