ESPN has indeed heard of Sid Crosby
Settling for league MVP is not nearly as cool as a made up award no one cares about
Earlier this week came news that the Penguins retained 99 percent of their season ticket holders from last season despite heavy free agent losses. Had many of those fans held off another week, maybe they would’ve jumped that extra one percent.
ESPN, great arbiter of all things hockey, has named Sidney Crosby the best player in the sport as part of its annual ESPY Awards, mainly because it would be hard pressed to name another one. Crosby beat out Alex Ovechkin, Jarome Iginla, Pavel Datsyuk and teammate Evgeni Malkin for the award, an event so momentous it garnered him almost a quarter of a sentence on ESPN.com.
Other repeat winners were: Sidney Crosby (Best NHL Player), Norm Duke (Best Bowler), Floyd Mayweather (Best Fighter) and Maria Sharapova (Best Female Tennis Player).
Wow, mentioned next to a bowler! Hockey’s really moving up in the world after the ESPN ombudsman said the league was being unfairly under-covered early last season. None of that, I’m sure, has to do with Jason Chung’s wonderful, spot-on criticism of the Worldwide Leader’s hockey coverage.
Meanwhile, a deer won Versus’ “Best Victim of Barbaric Redneck Ritual” award for the show ‘North American Hunters.’
