The Knucklehead of the Year award- Sports and Entertainment

Time to give out our sixth Knucklehead of the Year award. This time it is the Sports & Entertainment category. Celebrities around the world have little trouble showing how shallow they are as people.

Click here, here, here, here, and here to see our other year end award winners for 2006.

Our Judging Panel remains the same. They are-

Greta from Hooah Wife and Friends
Don Surber
The Professor from Right Wing Nation
Doyle from A Cool Change
Jim from Bright & Early
James Joyner from Outside the Beltway
Dr. Steven Taylor from Poliblog
Jo from Jo's Cafe
Mr C from Peer Review FL
John in Carolina
Right in Florida
Rick from Stuck on the Palmetto
Bullwinkle
and Yours Truly. A big thank you to all the bloggers who helped out.

The six nominees are-

Drew Barrymore
Mel Gibson
Floyd Landis
Regan Books and Fox Television Network aka News Corp
Michael Richards
Annika Sorenstam

Comments from judging panel

James Joyner wrote- "Floyd Landis- Pretty bad but nobody ever heard of him before the Tour. News Corp- They eventually fixed their mess."

Mr. C wrote-

"1 Drew Barrymore’s Golden Globes (TFM LMAO!)

2 Floyd Landis tests negative for intelligence

3 Michael Richards chooses his words poorly"

Greta wrote-

"1. How I got away with murder & cashed in a little more with their blood
2. I really love Jews when I'm sober Mel
3. Racing roids
double honorary mention: Drew's twins"

This was a close race with five of the six nominees having considerable support. Our winner is.........

Mel Gibson!

Mel joins Jimmy Carter, Florida Department of Children and Families, Hilton Hotels, The New York Times and Andrew Tilley as 2006 Knucklehead of the year finalists. Please come back tomorrow to see who the next of our eight finalists is. On Decmeber 31st the Grand Knucklehead of 2006 will be announced. Have a great day.

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