{"id":1855,"date":"2014-07-16T21:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2014-07-16T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:39:22","slug":"2014-espn-espy-awards-winners-commentary-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/07\/16\/2014-espn-espy-awards-winners-commentary-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 ESPN ESPY Awards Winners, Commentary and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/espys.jpg\" alt=\"espys\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/espys.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/espys-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/07\/espys-1024x537.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2014 ESPN ESPY Awards are taking place on Wednesday night from the Nokia Theatre with Drake as the host.<\/p>\n<p>Tireball Sports will be covering this event with full results for all of the ESPY Award winners. Those wanting to watch at home can tune in at 9:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Complete List of ESPY Award Winners<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Best Team:<\/strong> Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Male Athlete:\u00a0<\/strong>Kevin Durant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy V\u00a0Perseverance\u00a0Award:<\/strong>Stuart Scott<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Comeback Athlete:\u00a0<\/strong>Russell Westbrook<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Female Athlete:\u00a0<\/strong>Ronda Rousey (was there any doubt? and of course she is not there due to surgery)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Play:\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Davis (returning that kick against Alabama has been this show)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capital One Cup Award:\u00a0<\/strong>Given to Florida women and Notre Dame men<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arthur Ashe Award for Courage:\u00a0<\/strong>Michael Sam (long segment here&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Record Breaking Performance:<\/strong> Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos (for all of them)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Game:\u00a0<\/strong>Auburn vs. Alabama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inagural Pat Tillman Award for Service:<\/strong>\u00a0Josh Sweeney<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Moment:\u00a0<\/strong>USA beats Ghana (yea, really)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Breakthrough Athlete:<\/strong> Richard Sherman, Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best male action sports athlete:<\/strong>\u00a0Nyjah Huston, Skateboarding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best male U.S. Olympic athlete:<\/strong>\u00a0Sage Kotsenburg, Snowboard Slopestyle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best female college athlete<\/strong>:\u00a0Breanna Stewart, Connecticut Basketball<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best NBA Player<\/strong>: Kevin Durant,\u00a0\u00a0Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best female tennis player:\u00a0<\/strong>Maria Sharapova<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best fighter:\u00a0<\/strong>Floyd Mayweather, Boxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 ESPN ESPY Awards are taking place on Wednesday night from the Nokia Theatre with Drake as the host. Tireball Sports will be covering this event with full results for all of the ESPY Award winners. Those wanting to watch at home can tune in at 9:00 pm ET. Complete List of ESPY Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}