Sam Borden of ESPN.com won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A 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. 

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

Sports editors submitted 22 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. ESPN.com, Sam Borden: Sports fans with disabilities (2) 1
  2. Boston Globe: The 2004 Red Sox, 20 years later (2) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  3. The Philadelphia Inquirer: Brain trauma in the NFL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  4. The Washington Post, Jerry Brewer: Grievance, fracture and inclusion in American sports (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
  5. The Minnesota Star Tribune, Chip Scoggins: How athletes get ready on gameday 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  6. NJ Advance Media (Newark), Kevin Armstrong: The Eagles in Brazil 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  7. Los Angeles Times: The death of Fernando Valenzuela (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  8. USA Today Sports, Tom Schad and Josh Peter: Lincoln (Calif.) University football 1 | 2 | 3
  9. The San Francisco Chronicle, John Shea: The Road to Rickwood Field 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  10. AL.com, Creg Stephenson: The complicated legacy of Birmingham’s white baseball legends 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

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