Every year on March 31, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards. Football[edit]

he AP has maintained its status and is viewed as an equal to the BCS (USC's AP title in 2003). The AP poll is the longest serving national poll in college football, having begun in 1936.
AP sports awards[edit]

Baseball[edit]
The AP began its Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league of Major League Baseball.[9] From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.[10] The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.[9]
Basketball[edit]
Every year on March 31, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards.
Football[edit]
AP NFL Coach of the Year
AP NFL Most Valuable Player
AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year
AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year
AP NFL Offensive/Defensive Rookies of the Year
AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year
Associated Press Television News[edit]

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The APTN Building in London
In 1994, London-based Associated Press Television (APTV) was founded to provide agency news material to television broadcasters. Other existing providers of such material at the time were Reuters Television and Worldwide Television News (WTN).
In 1998, AP purchased WTN and APTV left the Associated Press building in Central London and merged with WTN to create Associated Press Television News (APTN) in the WTN building, now the APTN building in Camden Town.
Litigation and controversies[edit]

Breach of contract and unfair competition[edit]
In November 2010 the Associated Press was sued by iCopyright. iCopyright's lawsuit asserts breach of contract and unfair competition in that the Associated Press launch