Barbaro - Candiate for SI's Sportman of the Year

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by uscrules

Since its been an off year in the major sports for real dominant stars, the award will go to Tiger or Federer. I dont think Tiger played enough to win this. Federer won 1 more major tournament and lost what 5 matches all year? 3 of them to the #2 player in the world. Tiger has already won this, time for someone new. nobody has dominated a sport like Federer has this year.

Absolutely not one other person you can make a case for.

Giving the award to a horse who only competed 5 months is lunacy. Its a plea of sympathy, lets be real. Theres been plenty of horses who have won 2 legs of racing's triple crown recently who never got a sniff of a mention. Then again they didnt break down in a huge race.

Actually giving the award to any horse is lunacy for that matter. Its an animal for crying out loud. It has no choice in the matter.

i disagree. barbaro captured a world wide audience, and hasn't lost it since the injury occurred. he's shown sheer determination, amazing intelligence for a horse, as well as strength and courage in his battle to survive. he's quite the ambassador for this sport. i don't think it's a sympathy vote, quite the opposite. rather a reward for showing such resilience. it's really an incredible story. he's overcome huge odds. he was only given a 5% chance to live once the laminitis was detected. altho many gave up, he never did.