Selfie for Sports Week

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Run-Away Winner

Words aren’t needed today. Because I think this pretty much speaks for itself.

Photojournalist Troy Wayrynen took 1st Prize in the Sports Feature category of the National Press Photographers 2014 Best of Photojournalism contest with this photo of 17-year-old junior Jacob Gillingham of Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington. (Thanks to alert PhotoWORDster Mark Larson)

• Editorial Comment: Now is the dawning of the Age of Self-Absorption.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

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