Jason Whitlock in the battle of sports douche bags

It’s been a big year for former Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock. And now he could cap 2010 with a meaningless award from Deadspin.

The sports blog — which delights in ridiculing Whitlock — announced last week that the scribe is one of eight notable sports personalities in a tournament for its tongue-in-cheek Sports Human of the Year honor, voted on by the site’s readers. Winning won’t be easy though. Whitlock finds himself in a cast of morons, sleazebags and weirdos who have made themselves notorious for a stupefying range of actions.