Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

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Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby skeenan » Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:28 am

American Pharoah is nominated for the Sportsman of the Year award (Sports Illustrated). He is behind the Kansas City Royals, and could use some more votes! :D
It's easy... scroll down and click on his picture: http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/2015/11/11/sports-illustrated-2015-sportsman-year-contenders

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby Tairaterces » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:09 pm

As of this afternoon, 25Nov2015 totals are:
American Pharoah has 187K votes.
Kansas City has 152K votes.
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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby geowarrior » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:28 am

Hmmm....I'd better vote again just to be sure.

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby Patuxet » Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:21 pm

What a stupid misnomer! Definitions of "sportsman" are:
a man who participates in outdoor activities like hunting and fishing
a man who participates in sports
a person who engages in or is interested in sports and especially outdoor sports (as hunting and fishing)
a person who engages in sports (as hunting or fishing)
a person who shows sportsmanship

I voted for AP anyway but would have preferred to vote for sports figure or personality of the year.
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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby skeenan » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:54 pm

Well, as much as I agree with you, I still think he deserves to win, based on his accomplishments. I'm a little surprised, seeing how they submitted the entire Kansas City Royals team, that it wasn't Pharoah and Victor, together.

Please keep voting, he's up to 44%, but it continues for another week or two. :D

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby geowarrior » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:46 pm

I think if teams can be nominated then the Pharoah team including Espinoza, Baffert (and team), Zayats and grooms/exercise riders should have been nominated.

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby TJ » Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:43 pm

Why did SI have this poll? American Pharoah wins the online poll with 47% of the vote and they take it away from him and give it to someone who got less than 2% of the vote....Serena Williams. Here's the article. TJ

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... f-the-year

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby geowarrior » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:25 pm

Hard to understand why they bothered to have an online poll.

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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby Patuxet » Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:28 pm

Did the poll site recognize previous voters or were people allowed to vote more than once?
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Re: Vote for AP, Sportsman of the Year!

Postby geowarrior » Wed Dec 23, 2015 4:58 pm

I believe it partially recognized previous voters but it was possible to vote more than once if they switched devices. Not sure if clearing cookies worked also.