Greta Thunberg is TIME Magazine’s person of the year. It’s a trivial award. The magazine’s only purpose is to look cool. If you have one on the train or at the airport, you look smart and people think you’re cool. And there’s certainly a ton of value in that.
Time Magazine itself, however, is not cool. Their latest selection for person of the year is evidence of this. There were so many great choices. Thunberg was not one of them.
Bianca Andreescu
My future wife, the best Tenniser of all time.
Hugh Freeze
Coached Liberty from a damn hospital bed. That’s worth at least thirty person of the year points.
Ed Orgeron
This guy is reminding us all why we love college football. He’s having a blast and he just flat-out loves the game. Even more, he loves LSU. It’s hard not to be at least intrigued by his passion.
He had so many doubts before he even coached a game in Baton Rouge. Now? He’s one of the greatest success stories of the last twenty years. Can he cap it off with a national championship in his home state? It’d be poetic, for sure.
Greg Schiano
IF he can resurrect Rutgers football.
Howie Kendrick
A ton of people had forgotten he even existed. Washington Nationals fans will remember him forever. What a guy.
Zack Moss
Easily my favorite player to watch this year. He runs hard, plays hard. You’d have to kill this guy to get him off the field, even then it might not be enough. I really hope he’s durable enough for a few years in the league, because he really deserves to get paid to play football. He’s got the heart of a lion and watching him run over DB’s never gets old.
P.J. Fleck
A rising superstar in the Big Ten. Fleck quickly turned around the once-proud Minnesota football program and got them to ten wins this year. That’s a bigger accomplishment than people realize. He’s got great energy and he’s all-in on building that program into something greater than a regional power.
Cassius Winston
He is everything good in life. I would die for Cassius, I love him. He’s the perfect person to represent Michigan State, on any stage. People like him are a reminder of what it means to be a Spartan.
Duos
Tyler Johnson & Rashod Bateman
The two best receivers that no one seems to know about. Also, very quietly the two best receivers in the Big Ten. Bateman especially has great chemistry with QB Tanner Morgan. They’ve got talent in bunches and they both had huge years for the Gophers. They’ll both be playing on Sundays.
Joe Brady & Joe Burrow
They teamed up to create one of the most prolific passing attacks that the SEC has ever seen. I never thought that would be possible at LSU.
Groups/Teams
Hong Kong Protesters
These people are more important than you think. In my mind, they should have been the POTY. But social media and Facebook shares are what really matter here.
Akron Zips
What a fitting mascot. Consistent all season.
Baltimore Orioles
No one has ever tried this hard to be so bad. They just traded Jonathan Villar for pretty much nothing. This is going to get way worse before it gets better.