If Sports Illustrated won’t give the Sportsman of the Year award to tennis players, we’ll hand out our own awards, thank you very much.<\/b><\/p>\n
National Football League player Brett Favre<\/strong> has been chosen as Sports Illustrated\u2019s Sportsman of the Year. At this rate, Roger Federer<\/strong> will have to win the grand salami \u2013 all four slams in one year \u2013 to get the award and that\u2019s if Tom Brady<\/strong> doesn\u2019t lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl in January.<\/p>\n Roger should be sure to throw in the Olympic gold medal and get himself a golden slam while he\u2019s at it. Let\u2019s see if SI would be dumb enough to ignore that too. They probably would be. SI has given out the award for 53 years and it\u2019s gone to exactly three tennis players: Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Arthur Ashe.<\/p>\n Oh well, let\u2019s just hand out our own awards shall we? Let\u2019s call them the Tennis Diary Awards \u2013Teddys \u2013 and let\u2019s do this all together.<\/p>\n Pat and I will lay out the categories and we\u2019ll all nominate the best players for each category. Leave a comment with your choices and your reasons for those choices. The better the reason, the better your nominee will do. Then we\u2019ll put a poll up for each category and we can choose the winners.<\/p>\n