sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/24/2008
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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . Barack Obama was 10 years old when he first fell in love with basketball. His grandfather had taken him to a game at the ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/19/2008
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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman
of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of...
the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock was sitting in the stands of Joe Louis ...
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Kostya Kennedy picks Nicklas Lidstrom for Sportsman of ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/20/2008
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman
of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of...
the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . I realize it's presumptuous, because the sport I cover is football, and I've ...
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Peter King picks Kurt Warner for Sportsman of the Year ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/20/2008
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman
of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of...
the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . Remember when the New England Patriots were lauded as a true team for taking ...
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Ian Thomsen picks the Boston Celtics for Sportsman of ...
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Your Sportsmen Ain’t S#!t #3: Barack Obama, Brian McBride, Jimmie Johnson, Anderson Silva, Padraig Harrington
Bugs & Cranks —
... Seth Davis’s case: “he spent much of his teenage years seeking out pickup games at playgrounds and rec centers around his native Honolulu. …. And in 2008 Obama put those rules of the asphalt to the ultimate test, betting his career on the belief that American voters would judge him not on the color of his skin but on whether he had the skills and the toughness they wanted in a president. When he hit the electoral game point on Nov. 4, he made history by winning the right to become America’s first-ever Hoopster-in-Chief.” ...
My Sportsman of the Year: Barack Obama
Dan Shanoff —
... UPDATE: And it appears that SI's Seth Davis beat me to it. Kudos on an inspired choice, Seth. (Although a bit ironic, given that Seth's father, Lanny Davis, was Hillary Clinton's designated on-air hatchet man against Obama during the primaries -- and even beyond into the general. You can't spell "Oedipal" or "Obama" without "O," I guess.)
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Rafer Johnson, 1958 Sportsman of the Year
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