Travis Kelce, Jake Paul, Caitlin Clark: TIM HOWARD's awards for 2024... and his predictions for 2025
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The curtain is closing on another year of sports and the time has to come to look back on all we have seen - and all that lies in store over the next 12 months. DailyMail.com columnist TIM HOWARD has picked out some of his highs and lows from 2024. The former Manchester United, Everton and USA goalkeeper has also peered into his crystal ball to make some predictions for 2025...
![[Women's basketball star Caitlin Clark has become one of the biggest names in sports]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/06/93607071-14238481-image-a-7_1735625028278.jpg)
Freddie Freeman winning World Series MVP. Just look at the Dodgers and the Yankees: two big-spending teams, so many huge names including Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. Freeman would have been the last name on the betting sheet to win MVP. For him to hit a walk-off in Game 1 and then to homer in four straight games? Incredible.
![[Even with Aaron Rodgers under center, the New York Jets have endured a dreadful season]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/05/93607031-14238481-image-a-3_1735624675206.jpg)
That moment to win Game 1 was stunning enough but then he sustained it. All at the end of a year when his son was left temporarily paralyzed by a rare neurological disorder before Freeman battled an ankle injury ahead of the World Series. Awesome. DailyMail.com columnist TIM HOWARD has picked out some of his highs and lows from 2024.
![[Mike Tyson, 58, returned to the ring to face YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Texas]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/05/93607027-14238481-image-a-4_1735624680063.jpg)
Freddie Freeman inspired the Los Angeles Dodgers to victory over the New York Yankees. Caitlin Clark. What she has done for women's sports and for the WNBA is remarkable. She has changed the trajectory of the league. Not single handedly, obviously. That is patronizing to the women who have come before her and built that league.
![[Pep Guardiola's Manchester City have suffered a dramatic collapse over recent months]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/06/93607021-14238481-Pep_Guardiola_s_Manchester_City_have_suffered_a_dramatic_collaps-a-1_1735626344976.jpg)
Clark stands on the shoulders of giants. But sometimes in sport, a seismic shift occurs from a single moment. Look at how Michael Jordan transformed the NBA – the league was floundering, there was no one in the stands, Nike was ready to give up on basketball. MJ took NBA into another realm and Clark is doing the same for women’s basketball.
![[Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift has brought his performances under the spotlight]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/06/93588947-14238481-Travis_Kelce_s_relationship_with_Taylor_Swift_has_brought_his_pe-a-2_1735626345069.jpg)
