Joel McHale doesn’t have a lot of bridges to burn in the sports world, so the ESPYs host went in deep for his opening monologue.
Here are the most memorable moments of the night. So hosting the ESPYs isn’t much of a stretch. Wilson: “Too soon, Joel”. Well, McHale didn’t follow those rules.
-Manny Pacquiao/Floyd Mayweather. [“I hope you don’t look back on this evening and think, ‘Man, I’ve wasted three hours of my life with this boring nonsense.’ You know, like the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight”. But he quickly corrected himself: “Excuse me, Doctor Bill Cosby”.
“Ronda [Rousey] has knocked out more women than Bill Cosby”. Yikes.
Mount St. Joseph basketball player Lauren Hill battled an aggressive inoperable brain tumor while on the team. “She’s definitely stealing all the headlines”, Press said. Scott, who passed away in January from stomach cancer, fought hard all the way to the end.
No explanation needed. Devon’s speech outlines and explains it all.
After the Best Play Espy was awarded to Odell Beckham Jr., Retired Yankee Derek Jeter was given the Espy Icon award by Boston native Ben Affleck.
Less than two months after her Vanity Fair cover, Jenner will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Read on for the details on what to expect from McHale on the show, his professional background, his net worth and more. Before coming out as a transgender woman earlier this year, she was known as Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion and reality TV regular on “Keeping up With the Kardashians”. He congratulated the Golden State Warriors for their first NBA championship since 1974, then praised the U.S. Women’s National Team for their first World Cup victory “since we all started caring about it 11 days ago!”
The 43-year-old, who stars on the Yahoo series “Community”, loved the National Basteball Association as a kid, but after the SuperSonics left Seattle he latched onto the Seahawks, who lost the Super Bowl to the Patriots 28-24 in a wild finish.
