{"id":90851,"date":"2015-12-24T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90851"},"modified":"2015-12-24T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T17:49:03","slug":"american-pharoahs-triple-crown-tops-sports-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=90851","title":{"rendered":"American Pharoah&#8217;s Triple Crown tops sports, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90871 alignleft\" alt=\"americapharoah\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/americapharoah.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; American Pharoah&#8217;s sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes for horse racing&#8217;s first Triple Crown since 1978 has been selected the sports story of the year in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-two ballots were submitted from U.S. editors and news directors. Voters were asked to rank the top five sports stories of the year, with the first-place story receiving five points, the second-place story four points and so on.<\/p>\n<p>American Pharoah&#8217;s Triple Crown win received 317 points and 43 first-place votes in results announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 sports story was the &#8220;Deflategate&#8221; scandal that ensnared Super Bowl-winning Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. It had 191 points and 13 first-place votes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; American Pharoah&#8217;s sweep of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes for horse racing&#8217;s first Triple Crown since 1978 has been selected the sports story of the year in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press. Eighty-two ballots were submitted from U.S. editors and news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90874,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90851\/revisions\/90874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}