Bill Oram of The Oregonian won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division B Projects category.

APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2025 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown on June 28. Registration for the conference is now open. 

Oram will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.                                                                                    

Sports editors submitted 26 entries in the category. Contest chair Paul Barrett and APSE officers Dan Spears, Perryn Keys and Tony Maluso 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. Associated Press Photo Manager Mike Stewart helped choose finalists in the photo categories.

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. The Oregonian, Bill Oram: Basketball player’s journey after prison (2)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 
  2. The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), Andrew Carter and Robert Willett: UNC basketball’s history with Kansas  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 
  3. The Baltimore Banner, Brandon Weigel: How to Train A Racehorse (1)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 
  4. Andscape, Clinton Yates: MLB coach Ron Washington (1)  1 | 2
  5. San Antonio Express-News, Ronald Harrod and David Hinojosa: “Beyond The Game” series  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 
  6. BamaCentral, Christopher Walsh: Nick Saban’s greatest players (1)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  7. IndyStar: The 2024 NBA All-Star Game (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 
  8. The Tennessean, Paul Skrbina and Mike Organ: Brentwood Academy football  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  9. The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gordon Wittenmyer and Keely Brown: Cincinnati’s best baseball players  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  10. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 

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