{"id":1731,"date":"2014-04-09T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:29:26","slug":"drake-to-host-this-years-espy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/04\/09\/drake-to-host-this-years-espy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake to host this years ESPY awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/04\/drakeespy.jpg\" alt=\"drakeespy\" width=\"517\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/04\/drakeespy.jpg 517w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2014\/04\/drakeespy-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><br \/>\nThis year the ESPY Awards will be hosted by Drake.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, also known as &#8220;Drizzy&#8221;, is no stranger to &#8220;bandwagon jumping&#8221; made the announcement on his twitter account also posting an image.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Honored to be this year&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPYS\">@ESPYS<\/a> host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\">@espn<\/a> 7.16.2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ESPYS&amp;src=hash\">#ESPYS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NWTS&amp;src=hash\">#NWTS<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PFo7wOV0DE\">pic.twitter.com\/PFo7wOV0DE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Drizzy (@Drake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drake\/statuses\/453947993696137217\">April 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder if Drake will find a way to put all of his gear on at the same time or simply swap it out depending on who will be presenting?<\/p>\n<p>Teams that Drake has shown support for in the past include Kentucky, Texas A&#038;M, the Heat, Lakers and Raptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the ESPY Awards will be hosted by Drake. The singer, also known as &#8220;Drizzy&#8221;, is no stranger to &#8220;bandwagon jumping&#8221; made the announcement on his twitter account also posting an image. Honored to be this year&#39;s @ESPYS host @espn 7.16.2014 #ESPYS #NWTS pic.twitter.com\/PFo7wOV0DE &mdash; Drizzy (@Drake) April 9, 2014 You have to wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[115,116],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-drake","9":"tag-espy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}