Jere' Longman New York Times won first place for Breaking News in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2016 contest’s Over-175,000 circulation category.
Nick Underhill, Ramon Antonio Vargas, Matt Sledge, John Simerman of the The Advocate won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2016 contest in the Breaking News category for the 75,000-175,000 circulation category.
Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2016 contest in the Breaking News category for the 30,000-75,000 circulation category.
John Bednarowski of the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2016 contest in the Breaking News category for the Under 30,000 circulation category.
The New York Times team of Matt Apuzzo, William K. Rashbaum, Sam Borden and Michael S. Schmidt won the breaking news award in the Over 175,000 circulation category in the 2015 Associated Press Sports Editors contest. The four did a series of work on the corruption and trouble surrounding FIFA.
Tim Graham, Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck of The Buffalo News won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2015 contest in Breaking News for the 75-175,000 circulation for their work on reporting Patrick Kane being the subject of a rape investigation by Hamburg police.