ESPY Awards

The ESPY Awards (short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards, and often referred to as the ESPYs) is an annual American awards show produced by ESPN since 1993, recognizing individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony. From 2015 to 2019, and since 2021, the ceremony has aired live on sister broadcast television network ABC, while ESPN continues to air simulcasts of the awards and reruns. Because of the ceremony's rescheduling prior to the 2002 event, awards presented in 2002 were for achievement and performances during the seventeen previous months. As the similarly styled Grammy (for music), Emmy (for television), Academy Awards (for film), and Tony Awards (for theater), the ESPYs are hosted by a contemporary celebrity; the style is lighter, more relaxed and self-referential than several other awards shows, with comedic sketches usually included.