Overview

• Simone Biles won Best Female Athlete and Best Championship Performance for her gold-medal run at the Paris Games.
• Saquon Barkley left with three trophies, earning Best NFL Player, Best Play for his backwards hurdle and sharing Best Team honors with the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named Best Male Athlete after leading the Thunder to an NBA title and securing MVP honors.
• Oscar Robertson received the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, Katie Schumacher-Cawley accepted the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance and first responders David Walters and Erin Regan were honored with the Pat Tillman Award for Service.
• Host Shane Gillis’s opening monologue drew mixed reactions when jokes about Diana Taurasi and Caitlin Clark unsettled parts of the audience.