Sports
Winners of the Sporting News Man of the Year Award
Despite the name, there has been one female winner.
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Archie Griffin
American football player.
- 1975 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Bowie Kuhn
American lawyer. Baseball commissioner, 1969-84.
- 1983 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Charlie Finley (died 1996)
Owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.
- 1972 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Clarence Edwin ''Cito'' Gaston (born 1944)
American baseball player and manager.
- 1993 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Denny McLain
Baseball player.
- 1968 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Emmitt Smith
American football player.
- 1994 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Joe Montana
American football quarterback.
- 1989 Sporting News Man of the Year
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John Wooden
American basketball player and coach.
- 1970 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Larry O'Brien
American baseball commissioner.
- 1976 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Lee Trevino
American golfer.
- 1971 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Lou Brock (born 1939)
American baseball player.
- 1974 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Mike Krzyzewski
American basketball coach.
- 1992 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Orenthal James ''O.J.'' Simpson
American football player and actor. His trial and acquittal on a double murder charge, and subsequent civil trial in which he was found liable for those murders, captured the world's attention in the mid-1990s.
- 1973 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Pat Gellick
- 1993 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Peter Ueberroth (born 1937)
American commissioner of baseball and organizer of the 1984 Olympic Games.
- 1984 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Ron Guidry
American baseball player.
- 1978 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Steve Cauthen (born 1960)
American jockey and horse breeder.
- 1977 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Tom Seaver
American baseball pitcher and announcer.
- 1969 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Willie Stargell
American baseball player.
- 1979 Sporting News Man of the Year
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George Brett (born 1953)
American baseball player.
- 1980 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Wayne Gretzky (born 1960)
Canadian hockey player who is the NHL's all-time leading scorer.
- 1981 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Nolan Ryan (born 1946)
American baseball pitcher.
- 1990 Sporting News Man of the Year
- 1990 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Michael Jordan (born 1962)
American basketball and baseball player.
- 1991 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Pete Rose (born 1941)
American baseball player and manager. Banned from the game in 1989 for betting.
- 1985 Sporting News Man of the Year
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Larry Bird (born 1956)
American basketball player.
- 1986 Sporting News Man of the Year
Winners of the Sporting News Man of the Year Award
Despite the name, there has been one female winner.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born 1962)
American track and field athlete.
- 1988 Sporting News Woman of the Year
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