Posts Tagged ‘Award’
Summitt, Krzyzewski win SI’s top award
Tennessee’s Pat Summitt and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski are the 2011 Sports Illustrated Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year, the magazine announced Monday.
The NCAA’s all-time winningest women’s and men’s basketball coaches join Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan, Billie Jean King, Jack Nicklaus, Bobby Orr and Pete Rozelle, who are some of the past recipients of the award.
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Verlander adds AL MVP to Cy Young award
Justin Verlander won the American League Most Valuable Player Award Monday, completing a rare sweep of the MVP and Cy Young awards.
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Yanks’ Gardner walks off with weekly award
Brett Gardner sometimes doesn’t start for the Yankees, which is shocking to some (read: us). But he still knows how to make an impact on a game in which he’s riding pine at the first pitch. Witness last Thursday, when Gardner replaced Andruw Jones in left for the ninth inning and then got the second of his two hits in the 12th, knocking in the winning run against Texas in walk-off fashion. Cue the pie.
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Patti Hansen hands out mother award day after daughter’s bust
The wife of Rolling Stone rocker Keith Richards handed out Mother of The Year Awards in New York Thursday – a day after the couple’s wayward daughter was busted for tagging a convent.
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GOP blocks legislation to award seniors $250 (AP)
AP – House and Senate Republicans on Wednesday thwarted Democratic efforts to award $250 checks to Social Security recipients facing a second consecutive year without a cost-of-living increase.
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Roman Polanski wins best European picture award (AP)
AP – Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer,” a story of a journalist hired to write the memoirs of a British prime minister, has won the prize for best film at the European Film Awards.
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Obama to award Bush the Medal of Freedom
President Obama dropped a bipartisan bombshell today, announcing he will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom next year to ex-President George H.W. Bush.
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