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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold (14) celebrates following a victory against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field.

Despite criteria clarifications, 15 AP voters included Sam Darnold on CPOY ballots

"The easy fix would be to limit the award to players overcoming injury or illness."

By Sean Keeley OnFeb 8, 2025 0
Imane Khelif celebrates her gold medal in a women’s 66kg victory ceremony during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade Roland Garros.

Imane Khelif topped Google’s 2024 worldwide trending search results for athletes

Khelif, the controversy-sparking Algerian Olympic boxer, was highly prominent in Google end-of-year results and AP award voting.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnDec 25, 2024 0
A sought-after 1961 Remington Torpedo typewriter in the collection of Lacey resident Ian McAndrew, who runs Iron Fox Typewriters, a business that repairs and refurbishes antique typewriters.

Associated Press’ hypocritical post about sports style guide got absolutely roasted

"Avoid hackneyed words and phrases, redundancies and exaggerations."

By Ben Axelrod OnOct 25, 2024 0
Sam Darnold

Change to AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year criteria sparks media debate

"They really did not need to change these rules."

By Reice Shipley OnOct 12, 2024 1
Ralph Russo & The Athletic

Ralph Russo leaves AP to join The Athletic as a national college football writer

"Today I joined The Athletic as a national college football writer."

By Sean Keeley OnSep 30, 2024 0
An inaccurate Boston Globe headline for an AP story on boxer Imane Khelif. (Alejandra Caraballo  on X/Twitter.)

Boxing

Boston Globe roasted for ‘flat out lie’ headline of ‘Transgender boxer advances’ on AP story that didn’t say that

Associated Press tweets Ejiro Evero photo with Raheem Morris story, apologizes, deletes apology tweet

Both the initial AP tweet and the apology went wrong.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 25, 2024 2
Arizona

Arizona omitted two weeks in a row on AP Men’s Top 25 ballot

For some reason, the Arizona Wildcats were omitted for the second week in a row off an AP Top 25 voter's ballot.

By Chris Novak OnJan 22, 2024 0
The AP Stylebook 56th edition cover next to logos for X and Twitter.

AP Stylebook issues controversial ruling on Twitter and X

"No one's ever gon' give it to them."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 26, 2023 6
Kylian Mbappe during the French World Cup final loss.

AP Stylebook includes ‘the French’ in list of ‘general and often dehumanizing ‘the’ labels,’ gets roasted

An AP Stylebook tweet on "general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels" started with "the poor, the mentally ill, and the French."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 26, 2023 2
Georgia against Gardner-Webb on Dec. 29, 2021.

An AP CBB voter put 5-8 Georgia fourth instead of 11-2 Gonzaga, leading to an interesting “also receiving votes” list

This vote was a clear mistake, but to the credit of the voter and the AP poll administrators, it was corrected quite quickly.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 3, 2022 0
Rhiannon Potkey is getting sports equipment to kids who need it.

Journalist Rhiannon Potkey’s “Goods4Greatness” breaks down access barriers by getting donated sports equipment to those who need it

Potkey's "Goods4Greatness" non-profit gets sports equipment to kids who need it, whether through donated equipment or financial donations to purchase new equipment.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 16, 2021 0
Bill Buckner

ESPN, the AP, and the Washington Post all led news of Bill Buckner’s death with his World Series error

Putting Buckner's error on the ticker/in a tweet/in a headline was an unusual move by obituary standards, and it took some criticism.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 28, 2019 10
Mark Silverman

Fox Sports’ Mark Silverman tells the AP FS1 has “grown past ’embrace debate.’ I think we’re a more mature network now.”

“We’ve grown past ‘embrace debate.’ I think we’re a more mature network now. I think we have some shows with a little more element of debate and others that are smart, entertaining and interesting to sports fans.”

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 2, 2019 1
No, Kyle Busch didn't record his 200th victory Saturday.

The Associated Press called Kyle Busch’s 200th victory too soon, and he went on to lose

No, Busch did not get his 200th victory Saturday.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 16, 2019 5
The NY Post's Ray Lewis headline.

NY Post runs “Ray Lewis returns to scene of Super Bowl murders, certain they’re forgotten” headline on AP story

The AP's original headline was the milder and more accurate "Lewis back at an Atlanta Super Bowl 19 years after arrest."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 25, 2019 12
ESPN's changing Wiggins story.

ESPN and the AP claim Andrew Wiggins apologized for using ‘gay” as a derogatory term, but Wiggins insists he didn’t say “gay”

Wiggins did not apologize for saying "gay"; he said he didn't say it.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 9, 2019 1

NFL

Larry Fitzgerald starts press conference with a tribute and a present for retiring AP writer Bob Baum

The upside of automated game stories

The expansion of The Associated Press’ automated game story program from some NCAA games last year to coverage...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 14, 2016 1

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