If you’re an editor or writer, this is Oscars week.
The Associated Press Sports Editors are busy judging its 2012 contest. Below are winners in the 175,000-plus circulation categories. Here’s the APSE link for all divisions.
There’s still more work to do in the individual categories. The top five will be ranked at a later date.
What stood out for me was the absence of Dan Wetzel’s name in columns. The Yahoo! Sports columnist’s work in covering the Jerry Sandusky trial and aftermath was unmatched. I had one editor recently tell me if he could hire one columnist now, it would be Wetzel. I’m sure that editor is not alone.
Perhaps Wetzel’s columns weren’t submitted. I don’t know. All I know is that he would be my top 1 for 2012.
Also, Jason Whitlock of FoxSports.com, who claimed last week that the judging is biased against minority columnists wasn’t in the top 10. Again, maybe his columns weren’t entered. For the record, editors, not reporters, submit the entries.
Whitlock’s teammate, Jen Floyd Engel of FoxSports.com, did crack the top 10 in columns.
Here are the winners:
Daily Section
Top 10
Boston Globe
The Dallas Morning News
Detroit Free Press
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Kansas City Star
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
USA Today
Washington Post
Honorable mention
Arizona Republic
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Tribune
Denver Post
Houston Chronicle
New York Daily News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Seattle Times
Toronto Globe Mail
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Sunday
Top 10
Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
The Dallas Morning News
Kansas City Star
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Newark Star-Ledger
New York Daily News
New York Times
The Seattle Times
Washington Post
Honorable Mention
Baltimore Sun
Chicago Sun-Times
Detroit Free Press
Los Angeles Times
Miami Herald
Newsday
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
San Francisco Chronicle
UT San Diego
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Special Sections
Top 10
Boston Globe
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dallas Morning News
Kansas City Star
Miami Herald
Minneapolis Star Tribune
New York Times
Orlando Sentinel
San Francisco Chronicle
Washington Post
Honorable Mention
Arizona Republic
Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles Times
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New York Daily News
New York Newsday
Newark Star Ledger
Philadelphia Daily News
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Seattle Times
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Columns
Gregg Doyel, CBSSports.com
Scott Miller, CBSSports.com
Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
Jen Floyd Engel, FoxSports.com
Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Harvey Araton, The New York Times
Marcia C. Smith, Orange County Register
Mark Whicker, Orange County Register
Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Gary Shelton, Tampa Bay Times
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Feature writing
Jared S. Hopkins, Chicago Tribune
Wright Thompson, ESPN.com
Christian Red, New York Daily News
Barry Bearak, New York Times
Joe Posnanski, Sports on Earth
Matthew Stanmyre, The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.)
John C. Cotey, Tampa Bay Times
Eric Prisbell, USA Today
Barry Svrluga, Washington Post
Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports
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Beat writing
Steve Hummer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Benjamin Hochman, Denver Post
Jesse Temple, FoxSports.com
Tania Ganguli, Houston Chronicle
Judy Battista, New York Times
Scott Reid, Orange County Register
Dan Wiederer, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Joey Knight, Tampa Bay Times
Pat Forde, Yahoo! Sports
Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
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Investigative Writing (all divisions)
Ronald J. Hansen and Anne Ryman, Arizona Republic
Jack Dolan, Ruben Vives and Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times
Dan Kane and Andrew Carter, News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Teri Thompson, Bill Madden, Michael O’keeffe, Nathaniel Vinton and Christian Red, New York Daily News
Walt Bogdanich, Joe Drape, Dara L. Miles and Griffin Palmer, The New York Times
Jim Owczarski, OnMilwaukee.com
Keith Sharon and Frank Mickadeit, Orange County Register
Mike Vorkunov and Craig Wolff, The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.)
Rachel George, USA Today
Adrian Wojnarowski, Rand Getlin, Yahoo! Sports