Best Moment ESPY Award

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The Best Moment ESPY Award has been conferred annually since 2001 on the moment or series of moments transpiring in a play in a single game or individual match or event, across a single regular season or playoff game, or across a season, irrespective of specific sport, contested, in all cases, professionally under the auspices of one of the four major North American leagues, collegiately under the auspices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or internationally under the auspices of a sport federation, adjudged to the most remarkable or best in a given calendar year; the primary participant in the moment is generally regarded as the award's recipient.

Between 2001 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. In 2001, the ESPY Awards ceremony was conducted in February and awards conferred reflected performance and achievement over the twelve months previous to presentation; since 2002, awards have been presented in June to reflect performance and achievement also over a twelve-month period^[1].

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Year of award	Game or event	Date	Competitions, governing body, or league	Sport	Location	Moment
2002	2001 MLB season regular season game between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers	06 October 2001	Major League Baseball (MLB)	Baseball	Pacific Bell Park San Francisco, California, United States	San Francisco Giants left fielder Barry Bonds hits his 71st home run of the 2001 MLB season to displace Mark McGwire atop the enumeration of MLBers by single-season home runs
2003	2002 United States Open men's singles championship	08 September 2002	ATP Tour	Tennis	Arthur Ashe Stadium New York City, New York, United States	American Pete Sampras, seeded seventeenth, defeats countrymate Andre Agassi, 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, to win the to capture his fourteenth career Grand Slam singles title
2004	Monday Night Football game in the penultimate week of the 2003 NFL season regular season between the Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders	22 December 2003	National Football League (NFL)	American football	Network Associates Coliseum Oakland, California, United States	Packers quarterback Brett Favre completes 22 of 30 passes attempted for 399 yards and four touchdowns to post a 154.86 quarterback rating one day after the death of his father
2005	Game six of a conference semifinal between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers in the 2005 NBA Playoffs	19 May 2005	National Basketball Association (NBA)	Basketball	Conseco Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana, United States	Pacers shooting guard Reggie Miller converts seven two-point and four three-point field goals and one free throw to score 27 points and to post a 68.8 per cent shooting percentage in the final game of his eighteen-season NBA career and receives an extended ovation when Pistons head coach Larry Brown calls a timeout in order that his team might also applaud Miller
2006	Regular season high school game between the Greece Athena High School Trojans and the Spencerport High School Rangers	16 February 2006	New York State Public High School Athletic Association	Basketball	Greece Athena High School Rochester, New York, United States	Trojans manager Jason McElwain, an autistic senior, is inserted by coach Jim Johnson into the Trojans' final regular season home game and, having shot an air ball and missed a layup, successfully converts one two-point and six three-point field goals to score twenty points across the game's final four minutes
2007	Monday Night Football game in the third week of the 2006 NFL season regular season between the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints	25 September 2006	National Football League (NFL)	American football	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	The Saints, in their first game in New Orleans and at the Superdome since the structure was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and since it underwent a US$185 million renovation, defeat the Falcons, 23-3, in a nationally-televised game that earns the second-largest-ever cable television audience

[edit] Notes

^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performances between February 2001 and June 2002.