ESPY Awards

<p>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 <a href="/facts/ESPN/1FeLYofR">ESPN</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Broadcast_television/BT0FfFcy">broadcast television</a> network <a href="/facts/American_Broadcasting_Company/WGxg4vRX">ABC</a>, while ESPN continues to air them in the form of replays. Because of the ceremony's rescheduling prior to the 2002 iteration thereof, awards presented in 2002 were for achievement and performances during the seventeen-plus previous months. As the similarly styled <a href="/facts/Grammy_Award/2bxYJjPV">Grammy</a> (for music), <a href="/facts/Emmy_Award/M6GvMDJc">Emmy</a> (for television), <a href="/facts/Academy_Award/CwTxYuNQ">Academy Award</a> (for film), and <a href="/facts/Tony_Award/Md77rBE0">Tony</a> (for theater), the ESPYs are hosted by a contemporary celebrity; the style, though, is lighter, more relaxed and self-referential than many other awards shows, with comedic sketches usually included.
</p><p>From the show's inception to 2004, ESPY Award winners were chosen only through voting by fans. Since 2004, sportswriters, broadcasters, sports executives, and sportspersons, collectively experts; or <a href="/facts/List_of_ESPN_personalities/x19ICFq8">ESPN personalities</a> also vote.  Award winners have been selected thereafter exclusively through global online fan balloting conducted from amongst candidates selected by the ESPY Select Nominating Committee.
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