By Tommy Deas, APSE Third Vice President
Ian Powers of the New York Daily News won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2014 contest in Project writing for the Over 175,000 circulation category.
Powers won for a series on New York’s NCAA Basketball Tournament history. He will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2015 APSE banquet. The banquet and awards dinner concludes the APSE Conference June 24-27 at The Westgate Hotel in San Diego, Calif.
Powers edged runner-up Barry Svrluga of The Washington Post. The Miami Herald team placed third.
Sports editors in the Over 175,000 category submitted 30 project entries.The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Mary Byrne numbered each entry, assuring they had been stripped of headlines, graphics, bylines and any other element that would identify the writer or news organization.
In early February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 separately on a secret ballot. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion. The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The Project Reporting category judges a collection of articles that sheds new light on personalities and issues in the news, including trends and original ideas. Entries were limited to 10 stories, with optional material allowed to be read at the discretion of judges.
The top 10 is listed below with links to writers’ Twitter pages, APSE member websites and winning entries.
- Ian Powers, New York Daily News, 54 points, 1 first-place vote
Kenny Sailors and the Jump Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Utah’s Blitz Kids: NCAA’s original Cinderella story
Garden Crusade: The 1947 NY Champions of Holy Cross
The triumph & tragedy of the 1950 City College Grand Slam
- Barry Svrluga, The Washington Post, 50 points, 4 first-place votes
162: A baseball season’s relentless grind: The veteran
- Michelle Kaufman, Patti Mazzei, Andres Viglucci, Nadege Green, Doug Hanks and Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 47 points
David Beckham, investors have identified six potential soccer stadium sites
Beckham’s soccer plans conflict with PortMiami’s business plan
As Beckham presses case in Miami, soccer deals a mixed bag for cities around the country
David Beckham’s Miami soccer gamble: If they build the stadium, will fans come?
David Beckham on Miami MLS team: ‘This is my passion’
David Beckham’s brand would drive Miami soccer team’s business plan, investor says
For David Beckham, latest soccer stadium site poses new challenges
David Beckham’s latest Miami stadium plans revealed after earlier site scratched
Debate over soccer stadium centers on park use
David Beckham’s MLS Stadium is a no-go at downtown Miami’s Museum Park, boat slip
- James Rainey, Nathan Fenno, Kim Christensen, Angel Jennings, Victoria Kim, Joe Mozingo, Paul Pringle, Harriet Ryan, Broderick Turner and Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 43 points, 1 first-place vote
Donald Sterling’s ties to NAACP under scrutiny after race recording
Donald Sterling’s past may speak to a present course with NBA
Sterling foundation ads tout good works, but verifying them isn’t easy
The women in Donald Sterling’s life
Sterlings turn to lawsuits in cases great and small
NBA makes its case against Clippers owner Donald Sterling
Sterling tape was unleashed as friendship with Stiviano frayed
Outcry over Sterling’s remarks renew focus on housing bias lawsuits
Bidding for Clippers was ‘like speed dating’
Donald Sterling built an empire and an image; words were his undoing
Sources: Rice told NFL he hit fiancee
Sources: Ray Rice spat at fiancee
Program Ray Rice in is rarely granted
Rice case: purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL
HOW THE NFL PLANS TO CHANGE ITS CULTURE
Can Anna Isaacson save the NFL?
OTL: NFL didn’t enforce own policies
Transcript shows inconsistencies in Goodell’s testimony on Rice matter
- (tie) Stephanie Kuzydym, Northeast Ohio Media Group/Cleveland.com, 39 points
Following the Brain Trail: How an NFL player’s brain goes from donation to concussion research
Ann McKee: The woman who fell in love with brains and changed football as we know it
- (tie) Brent Schrotenboer, Maggie Hendricks, Christine Brennan, Nancy Armour, Josh Peter, Steven Ruiz and Tom Pelissero, USA TODAY Sports, 39 points
History of leniency: NFL domestic cases under Goodell
NFL sends awful message with Rice suspension
Roger Goodell: We asked for Ray Rice video on multiple occasions
Armour: NFL not helping anyone by dragging its feet
Whippings part of Adrian Peterson’s childhood
A closer look at NFL arrests since 2010
Serial rape suspect Sharper promoted women’s safety
Christian Peter knows domestic abuse
- Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 points, 1 first-place vote
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- (tie) John Canzano, The Oregonian, 21 points
Canzano: Ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy tuned into Blazers-Rockets
Canzano: NBA says percentage of correct officiating calls ‘up in the 80s’
Canzano: ‘Joey Crawford’ is trending on Twitter — why the NBA wishes he weren’t
Canzano: Great, now will Adam Silver fix David Stern’s officiating problem?
Canzano: Punching out Joey Crawford, and the issues on NBA officiating
- (tie) J. Brady McCollough, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 points
The Evolution Of Mario Lemieux: 30 Years In Pittsburgh
(Tommy Deas is executive sports editor of The Tuscaloosa News. Contact him at tommy.deas@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0224.)
