61.   Named after the distinguished longtime University of Minnesota baseball coach, the award is given each year to the Upper Midwest Player of the Year.

62.   No award was given in the year following.

63.   No government awards should be given to soldiers for fighting in tragic civil wars.

64.   Now the award is also given in New York.

65.   Nowadays the awards are given either at the Shrine Auditorium or the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the stars wait until the parties afterward to get drunk.

66.   On the day when millions of Americans complain about their taxes, Rep. Peter Hoekstra was given an award for his efforts to cut wasteful government spending.

67.   Perhaps a special award should be given this year to Blockbuster Video for apparently recognizing the overkill.

68.   Posthumous Nobel Prizes and Lasker awards are not given.

69.   People who give awards agree.

70.   Performer awards were given to Jamie Bishton, Kristen Borg, Frederic Gafner, Lawrence Goldhuber, Lisa Race and Renee Redding-Jones.