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Frank Deford has been named the 2012 Red Smith Award winner by the Associated Press Sports Editors. The award is given annually by APSE to a person who has made major contributions to sports journalism.

Nominations for the Red Smith Award be accepted Jan. 23-Feb. 20 as APSE expands the pool of voters in 2012.

APSE President Michael Anastasi outlines changes to the process for Red Smith Award voting.

Vince Doria Vince Doria now is a BlackBerry man. The sports world vibrates in his pants pocket every few seconds. Talk to him for 15 minutes and he will take out his latest little gadget, contraption, whatever it is, at least three or four times and click his fingers across the miniature keyboard to answer [...]

W.C. "Bill" Heinz shows his 1932 Remington typewriter at his home in Bennington, Vt., in this Nov. 7, 2002 file photo. Heinz, an author, sportswriter and war correspondent, used the typewriter in World War II to write about the allied invasion of France. Heinz was a former New York Sun sportswriter and author who witnessed [...]

Van McKenzie Understanding the genius of Van McKenzie is much like understanding infinity. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, there’s more. This larger-than-life Runyonesque figure ran roughshod over America’s sports sections for more than 40 years. No section was so bad that he couldn’t fix it and no section was so [...]

Joe McGuff Born: Aug. 15, 1926 Died: Feb. 4, 2006 Career: Began at the Tulsa World before moving to Kansas City, where he spent 44 years as a sportswriter, columnist and eventually editor/vice president before retiring in 1992. Highlights: He successfully lobbied owners to return major-league baseball to Kansas City after the Athletics left for [...]

North Carolian first woman to win Associated Press Sports Editors’ highest honor Winston-Salem Journal   Winston-Salem Journal Mary Garber grew up playing football and baseball in her neighborhood in Winston-Salem, N.C. She would have played basketball, but she was too short. Her heroes were athletes, especially football and baseball players. Her female peers in the [...]

Jimmy Cannon Somebody asked Edwin Pope about Red Smith Award winner Jimmy Cannon … "Nobody appointed me judge of such things but the informed consensus is that Jimmy Cannon is one of the three best sports columnists ever," said columnist Pope, the 1989 Smith award winner. "The others, of course, would be, Jim Murray and [...]

George Solomon, whose career evolved from earning $5 for each of the stories he wrote for a Miami Beach newspaper while still in junior high school to heading The Washington Post’s sports department for the last 28 years, has won one of sports journalism’s highest honors, the Red Smith Award. Solomon is the 23rd recipient [...]