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Sportsmen of the Year

By on 12.3.08 @ 12:39PM

Sports Illustrated has named Olympics hero Michael Phelps its Sportsman of the Year. A fine choice, no doubt, though I would have gone with Tiger Woods. Phelps, after all, didn't have to compete on a broken leg and torn-up knee. At least the prize didn't go to our President-elect for the three-point shot he hit in Kuwait last summer.

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Wlady Pleszczynski is editorial director of The American Spectator and editor-at-large of AmSpec Online.

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