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FOX Botches Heisman Story, Announces Tebow As Winner [Broadcast Errors]
FOX Botches Heisman Story, Announces Tebow As Winner [Broadcast Errors]
While most people predicted a close Heisman race, FOX apparently thought Tebow had it in the bag. So much so that they published a Tebow victory story on their site. Screen grab after the jump. Correct headline, check. Correct story, um.... I guess at least one editor will be missing their ...
Mel Kiper, Tim Tebow and one more reason I will never, ever understand the NFL Draft
Mel Kiper, Tim Tebow and one more reason I will never, ever understand the NFL Draft
rivals.yahoo.com — Mel Kiper Jr. on Percy Harvin's draft potential : He’s not that big, and he’s taken a... lot of hits. But his explosiveness after the run is explosive." Thank you, Mel, thanks. Actually, that bit of redundancy aside, Kiper likes ... (more) Mel Kiper, Tim Tebow and one more reason I will never, ...
NCAAF: Sam Bradford wins the Heisman | Sports2Debate.com
NCAAF: Sam Bradford wins the Heisman | Sports2Debate.com
sports2debate.com — Did he deserve it? Should Tebow have won back to back? What about Colt McCoy, was it... because he didn't make it to the title game?Bradford stole this one from Tebow, will the National Championship go the same way? I see this as giving Tebow more motivation going into the title game. Florida will win. (more) NCAAF: Sam Bradford wins the Heisman | Sports2Debate.com
Sam Bradford Wins The Heisman Trophy
Sam Bradford Wins The Heisman Trophy
totalprosports.com — Total Pro Sports - The 2008 Heisman Trophy goes to the Oklahoma Sooners Quarterback, Sam Bradford. Sam... Bradford lead his Sooners team to the highest scoring college football team in history and to this years BCS national championship game. Sam Bradford received a total of 1726 points, Colt ... (more) Sam Bradford Wins The Heisman Trophy
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  • getin2thegame getin2thegame
    +1
    This probably happened because Tebow had the most first-place votes.  I also heard about some smaller news outlets jumping the gun due to this stat.
    Posted 12/14/2008 respond (flag)
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Sunday Morning Headlines
Vent About Sports — Sam Bradford Wins the Hesiman Trophy...no surprise here...except to Fox Sports Dallas Stars are fed up with Sean Avery...and so am I. Atlanta Hawks end Cavaliers win streak at 11...figures as soon as ...

Heisman Trophy goof for Fox
SmackCaster SmackBlog — ... Great catch/screengrab by Deadspin of Fox’s slipup on the Heisman winner. Guess someone out west felt that Tim Tebow was a lock for the Heisman. Oops. ...

Tim Tebow Wins Heisman According To FOX News
FanIQ Blog — ... write-ups for each player that as soon as the award is announced, they can throw up on their Web site. Well, someone at FOX News is about to lose their job right before Christmas, because this is what FOX had up as its lead story about the Heisman last night. Man, FOX can't even keep their bias out of something as simple as a sports story. Don't worry though, I'm sure they'll find some way to blame Barack Obama for this. [HT: Deadspin]

Fox Announces Wrong Heisman Winner
SaltyMilk.com — ... It appears that FoxSports had their minds made up of who was going to win the Heisman trophy last night.  They felt certain enough that Tim Tebow was going to win that they published a story announcing that he did.  Thankfully the folks over at Deadspin managed to get a screen grab of the oops! ...

Links of the Day 12/14/08
The Victoria Times — Sean Avery is done in Dallas. Interesting. Sam Bradford won the Heisman last night. Or was it Tim Tebow? Fox has me confused. Incredibly, a professional athlete did pretty well in a marathon.

Tim Tebow Won FOX’s Heisman Trophy
Larry Brown Sports — ... . That means all media outlets had all week to prepare articles and reports for each of the three possible Heisman Trophy winners. Foxsports.com apparently was quite diligent in doing their preparation. Only one problem. As Deadspin points out, they published the wrong winner on their site: ...

FOX Mistakenly Crowns Tebow The Heisman Winner
AwfulAnnouncing — We all know that Sam Bradford won the Heisman late Saturday night, but apparently FOX Sports didn't get the memo. The network's website had the headline right, but if you take a closer look at the copy, you'll see that the whole article is centered around Tebow winning the award. Here's a screencap via Deadspin.... ...

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