Running AP 2020 superlatives thread

[HanSenSE]

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)

 

[Spartan Squad]

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.

 

[HanSenSE]

Top Three were LBJ, Mahomes and Lewis Hamilton.

 

[Della9250]

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

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[rubenmateo]

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.

 

[Twirling Time]

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

 

[HanSenSE]

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?

 

[playthrough]

Yeah, a vote for Fuller is a serious insult. Did this voter start watching sports just in the last 30 days?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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

 

[Spartan Squad]

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

 

[goalmouth]

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