Running AP 2020 superlatives thread

Male Athlete of the year: LeBron James (although if I was still in the business, I would have put the Zamboni driver in Toronto on my ballot)

 

I don't know. As much as I'm over LeBron, can't really argue this one. His activism in a time when athletes really couldn't claim Republicans buy shoes too we enough. Not sure who else was on the ballot (I assume Mahomes, a golfer, Wallace, Kershaw? Pulisic, a college football player?) but LeBron really was head and shoulders above.

 

Top Three were LBJ, Mahomes and Lewis Hamilton.

 

Mahomes was second and Lewis Hamilton was third.

there were a like two dozen options on the male ballot. There were like seven on the female ballot

 

Hard to argue with Osaka. Stewart would have been deserving, too. A first-place vote for Sarah Fuller — over the likes of Osaka, Stewart, even a Sue Bird or Maya Moore this year — is being myopic about women’s sports.

 

It would've almost certainly been an Olympian if they'd been held this year.

 

I saw the vote for Fuller too and said "huh"? She gets the gig on a mediocre team because of the pandemic and was the most successful female athlete of the year?

 

Unless they changed the voting procedures, any paper with AP access gets to vote - right?

 

I'm thinking whoever did it either thought it would be funny or was someone who had it pawned off on them and knew dick about women's sports.

 

The day has come to retire idiotic media-bestowed titles, starting with AP.