# SI Sportsman of the Year 2012 - who?

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(Feel free to move this to IMHO if necessary - I put it in The Game Room as it is sports-related)

Any thoughts on who’s going to be SI’s Sportsman of the Year? I think it’s announced on 12/5.

I divide this up into three “categories”:

Who I think should win - NBA titlist and Olympic gold medalist LeBron James.  
(Why I think he won’t win - I am convinced that a significant part of deciding who gets it is, “How much hate mail and/or threats of subscription cancellations would we get?”)

Who I think will win - despite this being an Olympic year, I think it’ll go to Eli Manning.

Who I would choose - a share between Usain Bolt and Gabby Douglas.  
(Why neither of them will probably win - Bolt isn’t in a major sport (or golf) competes for Jamaica; Douglas doesn’t have the “it” factor that, say, Mary Lou Retton did.)

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