Sports Illustrated's 2008 Sportsman of the Year is Michael Phelps. For the past month SI writers have offered their personal nominations for the award with essays on SI.com. The writer nominations have included Usain Bolt (Tim Layden), Rafael Nadal (Jon Wertheim), Kurt Warner (Peter King), Alexander Ovechkin (S.L. Price), Jimmie Johnson (Lars Anderson), Josh Hamilton (Pablo S. Torre), Stephen Curry (Joe Posnanski), Tiger Woods (Chris Ballard) and the Fresno State baseball team (Lee Jenkins).
What do you think of the writers' picks? And who's your choice for Sportsman of the Year?
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