ESPYS 2025: High moments and checklist of winners from sports activities largest night time

LOS ANGELES — The 2025 ESPYS, held on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Wednesday and hosted by comic Shane Gillis, celebrated and acknowledged one of the best gamers, groups and moments in sports activities.

NBA Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles received as greatest female and male athletes.

Gilgeous-Alexander led the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder to the NBA championship final month whereas piling up {hardware} as league MVP and scoring champion.

“It is a dream come true and for goals to come back true it takes a village,” he mentioned, thanking his spouse, mother and father, brother and others. “These names most likely do not imply a lot however to me they imply every thing.”

Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist, additionally claimed the night time’s first award, Finest Championship Efficiency, for her efforts on the Paris Video games. She received three golds and a silver whereas serving to the U.S. win its first staff title since 2016.

“That was very surprising, particularly in a class of all males,” Biles mentioned after kissing her husband, Chicago Bears security Jonathan Owens.

She beat out Stephen Curry, Freddie Freeman and Rory McIlroy for the award.

The Philadelphia Eagles, who received the franchise’s second Tremendous Bowl in February, claimed greatest staff honors, beating out 9 different nominees, together with the Thunder, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Florida Panthers, the Ohio State soccer staff and the U.S. nationwide girls’s soccer staff.

Pat Tillman Award for Service

Former athletes David Walters and Erin Regan accepted the Pat Tillman Award for Service, given to those that have served in a method that honors the legacy of the previous NFL participant and U.S. Military Ranger.

Walters, 37, earned a gold medal in swimming on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was a seven-time world championship medalist. He is now a Los Angeles metropolis firefighter.

Regan, 45, was a Wake Forest soccer participant who spent one season within the professionals earlier than retiring to hitch the Los Angeles County Hearth Division.

Each Walters and Regan fought the lethal and damaging wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January.

Listing of notable winners from the night time

— Finest Championship Efficiency: Simone Biles, Olympic gymnastics all-around

— Finest Play: Saquon Barkley’s backwards hurdle

— Muhammad Ali Sports activities Humanitarian Award: Sloane Stephens

— Finest Breakthrough Athlete: Ilona Maher, USA Rugby

— Capital One Cup Winners: UNC girls and Ohio State males

— Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Katie Schumacher-Cawley

— Icon Award: Alex Morgan and Diana Taurasi

— Finest Athlete – Ladies’s Sports activities: Simone Biles, USA Gymnastics

— Pat Tillman Award for Service: Los Angeles County firefighters David Walters and Erin Regan

— Gatorade Gamers of the 12 months: Jane Hedengren and Cameron Boozer

— Finest Comeback Athlete: Suni Lee, USA Gymnastics

— Billie Jean King Youth Management Award: Rishin Tandon, Maegha Ramanathan and Ian Waite

— Arthur Ashe Award for Braveness: Oscar Robertson

— Finest Athlete – Males’s Sports activities: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder

— Finest File-Breaking Efficiency: Alexander Ovechkin, NHL all-time objectives chief

— Finest Crew: Philadelphia Eagles, NFL

— Finest NBA Participant: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder

— Finest WNBA Participant: Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever

— Finest Faculty Athlete – Males’s Sports activities: Cooper Flagg, Duke males’s basketball

— Finest Faculty Athlete – Ladies’s Sports activities: JuJu Watkins, USC girls’s basketball

— Finest Athlete with a Incapacity: Noah Elliott, Para Snowboarding

— Finest NFL Participant: Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles

— Finest MLB Participant: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers

— Finest NHL Participant: Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers

— Finest Driver: Max Verstappen, F1

— Finest UFC Fighter: Merab Dvalishvili

— Finest Boxer: Katie Taylor

— Finest Soccer Participant: Christian Pulisic, AC Milan, USMNT

— Finest Golfer: Scottie Scheffler

— Finest Tennis Participant: Coco Gauff

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ESPN and the Related Press contributed to this report