The Best Game ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a team who has performed the best play in the world of sports.[2] It was first awarded as part of the ESPY Awards in 2002.[3] The Best Game ESPY Award trophy, designed by sculptor Lawrence Nowlan,[4] is awarded to the team on the single regular season or playoff game contested professionally under the auspices of one of the four major North American leagues or collegiately under the auspices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association adjudged, in view of its quality, competitiveness, excitement, and significance, to be the best.[2] Since 2004, the winner has been chosen by online voting through choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.[5] Before that, determination of the winners was made by an panel of experts.[6] Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous.[3][a]
The inaugural winner of the Best Game ESPY Award in 2002 was the seventh game of the 2001 World Series which decided that year's baseball title in favour of the expansion team Arizona Diamondbacks over the New York Yankees.[7][8] The following year's recipient of the accolade went to Ohio State University Buckeyes in their 2003 Fiesta Bowl victory over the University of Miami Hurricanes.[9] College football games have won the award three times and earned another two nominations after American football which has the most wins of any other sport with eight awards and six nominations while basketball and ice hockey games each have one victory each. The 2018 winner of the Best Game ESPY Award is the 2018 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey gold medal game in which the United States team won against Canada's squad in a 3–2 shootout victory to claim their first gold medal in women's ice hockey since the 1998 Winter Games.[10] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2023.
^Felt, Hunter (July 13, 2017). "ESPY Awards 2017: Simone Biles and Russell Westbrook win Best Athletes - as it happened". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
^ abNelson, Murry R. (2013). American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 399–401. ISBN 978-0-313-39753-0. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
^ abc"New categories unveiled for The 2002 ESPY Awards" (Press release). ESPN. 2002. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
^Avard, Christian (August 2, 2013). "Sculptor commissioned to complete Joe Frazier statue has died". Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
^"The 2004 ESPY Awards - Fans to decide all 2004 ESPY Award winners". ESPN. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
^"Committee is newly found". ESPN. February 3, 1999. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
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^Elliott Schlossman, Brad (July 18, 2018). "Lamoureux twins, Marvin win ESPY with Team USA for Best Game". Grand Forks Herald. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
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