The award for the most ridiculous, self-absorbed, overzealous all sports entertainment network in the world goes to...
ESPN, for the 10th year running.
They have once again proven that outside the 4 major sports, Tiger Woods, and the Williams sisters, you're really not much of an athlete. Unless you count token consideration of Cael Sanderson and -ahem- Sarah Hughes (don't even get me started on figure skating).
No offense to college athlete of the year Sue Bird (UConn BB) but a certain swimmer from Cal who set at least 6 AR and 1 WR over the short course season would have had my vote.
Anyone else? Natalie Coughlin, female college athlete of the year as awarded by the USMS discussion crew?
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I grew up watching the Lakers and the Dodgers and Angels as a kid in southern california. The pro game sports always get more attention. But in the late 1960's and 1970's, swimming was what people put their kids into besides softball or little baseball or track and field. Now there is a sport call soccer which has drawed a lot of the boys and girls from southern california into that sport. I predict that within 10 years soccer which is a sport done more by people under 25 years old will take a bite out of baseball and football and basketball and the espy awards will award soccer players more. Don't knock golf and tennis they along with figure skating are sports where women can make as much as men or more. As for swimming it is more expensive than track and field but a lot more cheaper than figure skating where parents go into debt to pay their kids training. So probably track and field does draw people more from different income levels than does swimming and definately more so than figure skating. So it is based more upon natural ability than the two other sports.
I grew up watching the Lakers and the Dodgers and Angels as a kid in southern california. The pro game sports always get more attention. But in the late 1960's and 1970's, swimming was what people put their kids into besides softball or little baseball or track and field. Now there is a sport call soccer which has drawed a lot of the boys and girls from southern california into that sport. I predict that within 10 years soccer which is a sport done more by people under 25 years old will take a bite out of baseball and football and basketball and the espy awards will award soccer players more. Don't knock golf and tennis they along with figure skating are sports where women can make as much as men or more. As for swimming it is more expensive than track and field but a lot more cheaper than figure skating where parents go into debt to pay their kids training. So probably track and field does draw people more from different income levels than does swimming and definately more so than figure skating. So it is based more upon natural ability than the two other sports.
