Jeff Seidel and Mick McCabe of the Detroit Free Press won first place in the 2021 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A Short Feature category.
Seidel and McCabe will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2022 APSE Summer Conference banquet at The Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis on June 18. Click here to register for the conference.
Brendan Quinn of The Athletic finished second, and Sean Keeler of The Denver Post and Alex Schiffer of The Athletic tied for third.
Sports editors in Division A submitted 63 Short Feature entries.
Contest chair Jorge Rojas and fellow APSE officers Gary Potosky, Naila-Jean Meyers and Ed Reed prepared the entries. The contest is open to APSE members.
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 on a separate ballot. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion.
The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The winner in each category will receive a plaque at the summer conference. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
The top 10 is listed below with voting results and links to the winning entries.1. Jeff Seidel and Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 53 points (2 first-place votes)
2. Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 52 points (2 first-place votes)
T3. Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 41 points
T3. Alex Schiffer, The Athletic, 41 points (2 first-place votes)
5. Steve Politi, NJ Advance Media (Newark), 30 points
6. Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun, 25 points
7. Matt Breen, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 points
T8. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 points
T8. Mike Vorel, The Seattle Times, 23 points
10. Ron Kroichick, The San Francisco Chronicle, 18 points
