Despite criteria clarifications, 15 AP voters included Sam Darnold on CPOY ballots
"The easy fix would be to limit the award to players overcoming injury or illness."
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Imane Khelif topped Google’s 2024 worldwide trending search results for athletes
Khelif, the controversy-sparking Algerian Olympic boxer, was highly prominent in Google end-of-year results and AP award voting.
Associated Press’ hypocritical post about sports style guide got absolutely roasted
"Avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations."
Change to AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year criteria sparks media debate
"They really did not need to change these rules."
Ralph Russo leaves AP to join The Athletic as a national college football writer
"Today I joined The Athletic as a national college football writer."
Boston Globe roasted for ‘flat out lie’ headline of ‘Transgender boxer advances’ on AP story that didn’t say that
Associated Press tweets Ejiro Evero photo with Raheem Morris story, apologizes, deletes apology tweet
Both the initial AP tweet and the apology went wrong.
Arizona omitted two weeks in a row on AP Men’s Top 25 ballot
For some reason, the Arizona Wildcats were omitted for the second week in a row off an AP Top 25 voter's ballot.
AP Stylebook issues controversial ruling on Twitter and X
"No one's ever gon' give it to them."
AP Stylebook includes ‘the French’ in list of ‘general and often dehumanizing ‘the’ labels,’ gets roasted
An AP Stylebook tweet on "general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels" started with "the poor, the mentally ill, and the French."
An AP CBB voter put 5-8 Georgia fourth instead of 11-2 Gonzaga, leading to an interesting “also receiving votes” list
This vote was a clear mistake, but to the credit of the voter and the AP poll administrators, it was corrected quite quickly.
Journalist Rhiannon Potkey’s “Goods4Greatness” breaks down access barriers by getting donated sports equipment to those who need it
Potkey's "Goods4Greatness" non-profit gets sports equipment to kids who need it, whether through donated equipment or financial donations to purchase new equipment.
ESPN, the AP, and the Washington Post all led news of Bill Buckner’s death with his World Series error
Putting Buckner's error on the ticker/in a tweet/in a headline was an unusual move by obituary standards, and it took some criticism.
Fox Sports’ Mark Silverman tells the AP FS1 has “grown past ’embrace debate.’ I think we’re a more mature network now.”
“We’ve grown past ‘embrace debate.’ I think we’re a more mature network now. I think we have some shows with a little more element of debate and others that are smart, entertaining and interesting to sports fans.”
The Associated Press called Kyle Busch’s 200th victory too soon, and he went on to lose
No, Busch did not get his 200th victory Saturday.
NY Post runs “Ray Lewis returns to scene of Super Bowl murders, certain they’re forgotten” headline on AP story
The AP's original headline was the milder and more accurate "Lewis back at an Atlanta Super Bowl 19 years after arrest."
ESPN and the AP claim Andrew Wiggins apologized for using ‘gay” as a derogatory term, but Wiggins insists he didn’t say “gay”
Wiggins did not apologize for saying "gay"; he said he didn't say it.
Larry Fitzgerald starts press conference with a tribute and a present for retiring AP writer Bob Baum
The upside of automated game stories
The expansion of The Associated Press’ automated game story program from some NCAA games last year to coverage...