Jeff Passan of ESPN.com won first place in the 2023 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the National Beat Writing category, which encompassed all divisions.
APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2024 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Marriott South Park in Charlotte on June 22. Registration for the conference will open soon.
Passan will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 30 entries in the category. Contest chair Dan Spears and APSE officers Naila-Jean Meyers, Paul Barrett and Ed Reed prepared the entries.
Contest results: Sections, digital, video | Writing and photography
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and remote judges around the country selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1 to 10 in the same fashion. The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The top 10 are listed, with first-place votes in parentheses, along with links to the winning entries.
The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
1. Jeff Passan, ESPN.com (4) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
2. Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
3. Adam Kilgore, The Washington Post 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
4. Alan Blinder, The New York Times (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
5. Mark Schlabach, ESPN.com 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
6. Jonathan Tannenwald, The Philadelphia Inquirer 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
7. Nicole Auerbach, The Athletic 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
8. Jon Wilner, Bay Area News Group 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
9. Scott M. Reid, Southern California News Group (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
