BY TODD M. ADAMS, APSE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Peter Diana from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Tim Tai from The Philadelphia Inquirer tied for first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors’ 2018 contest for action photo in the A Division.
Diana and Tai will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2019 APSE Summer Conference Banquet at the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta on June 19.
The pair edged the Detroit Free Press’ Kirthmon F. Dozier, who placed third.
Sports editors in the A Division submitted 46 feature photo entries. The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Todd M. Adams and fellow APSE officers John Bednarowski, Lisa Wilson and Dan Spears prepared entries. In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 separately on a secret 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 winner and 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 writers will receive frameable certificates.
The judges for feature photo judged each entry on the quality of the photo. The top 10 is listed below with links to the winning entries:
T1. Peter Diana,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — 34 points, 2 first-place votes
T1. Tim Tai, The
Philadelphia Inquirer – 34 points, 2 first-place votes
3. Kirthmon F. Dozier,
Detroit Free Press, 33 points
4. Wally Skalij, Los
Angeles Times, 26 points
5. James P. McCoy, The
Buffalo News, 24 points
6. Doug Mills, The New
York Times, 23 points
7. Jim McIsaac,
Newsday (New York, N.Y.), 15 points
8. Rich Sugg, The
Kansas City Star, 11 points
T9. Andrew Mills, NJ
Advance Media , 10 points
T9. Karen Warren,
Houston Chronicle, 10 points
