Sports Talk: How fair was the choice?

It was pretty easy to pick this year's best football player in the world. The winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, had only one meaningful challenger, Lionel Messi, and both gave such riveting performances that a lottery could have been used to break the deadlock and few would have complained had that been the criteria.The choice though was not made haphazardly. Ronaldo won what is considered the most prestigious and prized individual award in soccer – the Ballon d'Or. There are many awards out there but...