Announcing The Soccer Pulitzer Prizes

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Congratulations to all the winners.

Public Service

Winner:

Travis Yoesting: Your Relationship Explained By Soccer GIFs

Finalists:

Connor Fleming: What Does A Soccer Captain Do?

Sam Klomhaus: Luis Suarez Should Quit Soccer And Fulfill His Destiny As The Third Property Brother

Jurgen Klopp: that interview after the Merseyside Derby when he looked directly into the camera

Miguel Herrera just for being himself

Paul Pogba's barber

Breaking News Reporting

Winner:

Connor Fleming: Here Comes A Monkey With The Match Ball

Finalists:

Sam Klomhaus: Look Out, Here Comes A Bear With The Match Ball

Travis Yoesting: Cristiano Ronaldo Plays With Little Balls In Front Of A Baby

Everyone who makes those "Welcome to X club" YouTube videos before the player has even signed

All the news organizations that breathlessly report who has liked what on Instagram

All the news organizations that report what kind of car Raheem Sterling is driving like it has anything to do with anything

Investigative Reporting

Winner:

Sam Klomhaus: I Saw A Plane. It Probably Has Virgil van Dijk On It

Finalists:

Liverpool fans in general: plane watch

Liverpool fans in general: van watch

Travis Yoesting: 'Players To Be Named Later' Upstage Incredible NWSL Draft

Connor Fleming: Floyd Mayweather Talks Newcastle Takeover And Luring Cristiano Ronaldo To Tyneside

Pep Guardiola: exposing the truth about how bad Joe Hart is

Explanatory Reporting

Winner:

Connor Fleming: The One Thing That Separates Argentine Empanadas From Portuguese Ones

Finalists:

Sam Klomhaus: Watch The Terrifying Trailer For Jason Statham's New Movie "The Meg"

Jurgen Klinsmann: explaining that the USA not qualifying for the World Cup

Bruce Arena: explaining that the USA not qualifying for the World Cup wasn't his fault, either

Sunil Gulati: explaining that the USA not qualifying for the World Cup wasn't HIS fault, either

Travis Yoesting: Why Colombia Must Not Be Allowed To Win The World Cup

Editorial Cartooning

Winner:

The deformed Cristiano Ronaldo bust

Finalists:

Those hipsters over at the Guardian

This drawing of Messi that I made

The deformed Gareth Bale bust

442oons

Any drawing of the Partick Thistle mascot

Local Reporting

Winner:

Mark Hamill tweeting that he "supports Wolves"

Finalists:

Your nephew's blog about his youth team

People in pubs complaining about how little coverage smaller local clubs get

Airplanes not being allowed to fly over Messi's house

Grainy cell phone videos of players going out after matches

The MLS "please like my sport" legions

National Reporting

Winner:

Sam Allardyce and his pint glass full of white wine

Finalists:

People complaining about Juan Carlos Osorio's tactics and ignoring his win-loss record

Iceland

The USA failing to qualify for the World Cup, and the ensuing hunt for a scapegoat

Every crazy story coming out of Russia leading up to the World Cup

Peru suspending its league to better focus on World Cup qualifying (and it worked!)

International Reporting

Winner:

Everyone debating whether Zinedine Zidane is a good manager

Finalists:

People who thought Cristiano Ronaldo was washed up at the beginning of the season

People who thought Real Madrid were going to win La Liga running away before the season started

Real Madrid's Champions League forcefield

Isco

Real Madrid getting wrecked by Spurs during the Champions League group stage just to inject a little suspense into the proceedings

Feature Writing

Winner:

Transfer rumors even though a transfer window is like three months away

Finalists:

Eventually, this category will somehow expand to include Netflix

Every player ratings article

Transfer speculation articles on MLSSoccer.com that pretend the writer doesn't work for the league he or she is covering

Articles going on and on about how Manchester City aren't the best team in EPL history, actually

Messi and Ronaldo fans yelling at each other on Twitter

Commentary

Winner:

Sam Klomhaus for his excellent tweets

Finalists:

James Milner's real Twitter account

Peter Crouch's Twitter account

People making fun of Harry Kane swearing on his daughter's life to steal a goal from a teammate

Bundesliga fans protesting Monday matches by throwing toilet paper on the field

"Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable."

Criticism

Winner:

Freddy Adu's movie reviews

Finalists:

The18's Facebook commenters

People who criticized Liverpool's signing of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

People who thought Manchester City spent too much money on fullbacks

Taylor Twellman: rant following USA World Cup qualification failure

Gianluigi Buffon saying Michael Oliver has a garbage bin for a heart

Editorial Writing

Winner:

Lionel Messi nutmeg compilations

Finalists:

That ad Zlatan took out in the LA Times

People who thought soccer couldn't make it in the American south

Pivoting to video and then pivoting back away from video

#NoEraPenal

My tweets again

Breaking News Photography

Winner:

Photos of players entering hospitals to complete medicals before transfers

Finalists:

Increasingly over-produced player announcement videos

Regular goal GIFs

Bristol City goal GIFS

Videos of Jogi Loew picking his nose

That picture of people being mean to Dele Alli, you know the one

Feature Photography

Winner:

The heat map that looks like a weiner

Finalists:

The photo of Zlatan as an angel arm-wrestling the devil

The photo of Sam Allardyce laughing at Chico Flores

Simon Mignolet practicing bike safety

Bastian Schweinsteiger wearing a scarf

Andrea Pirlo grilling meats

Fiction

Winner:

Philippe Coutinho's back injury

Finalists:

Mohamed Salah can't finish

Pep Guardiola's style will never work in England

Ligue 1 in general

Jonathan Gonzalez's promising USMNT career

Every foul on Luis Suarez

Drama

Winner:

Every Jose Mourinho press conference

Finalists:

The Coutinho to Barcelona saga

The Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United Saga

The Neymar to PSG saga

The Wenger In-Wenger Out saga

The Thomas Lemar non-saga

History

Winner:

The Netherlands, United States, Italy and Chile World Cup campaigns (shared)

Finalists:

Neymar's transfer fee

Renato Sanches

Jese

Oscar

Sunderland

Biography

Winner:

Stop Talking About How Weird Louis Van Gaal's Face Looks

Finalists:

Jamie Carragher's Voice Doesn't Match His Face

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Is Very Sure Of Himself, An Exhaustively-Researched Book

Who Told Antoine Griezmann He Could Wear His Hair Like That: An Investigation

Jose Mourinho Is Good And All Of You Are Bad, by Duncan Castles

The Life Of George Washington As Told By Soccer GIFs

Poetry

Winner:

Garbage Bin Heart, by Gianluigi Buffon

Finalists:

The Real World Cup Qualification Is The Friends We Made Along The Way, by Bruce Arena

Zlatan, by Zlatan

Murder, by Antonio Conte

Red Is The Color Of Love And Also Red Cards, by Sergio Ramos

Sitting On A Tractor On A Sunny Day, by Matt Besler

General Nonfiction

Winner:

West Brom players stealing a taxi to go to McDonald's

Finalists:

Kevin Lasagna

Alberto Moreno has had a good season

Harry Kane touched the ball before it went in the goal

The18 is the premier soccer website for millennials

That Roma comeback tho

Music

Winner:

Justin Beiber playing soccer

Finalists:

Jason Derulo's already-annoying World Cup song

Neymusico

The Champions League song's completely real lyrics

Manchester City's title-winning song/chant

Whatever other songs they release for the World Cup

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