Best Play ESPY Award

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The Best Play ESPY Award has been conferred annually since 2002 on the play in a 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 to be the most outstanding or best.

Between 2002 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. The ESPY Awards ceremony is conducted in June and awards conferred reflect performance and achievement over the twelve months previous to presentation^[1].

1 List of winners
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] List of winners

Year of award	Game or event	Competing teams	Date	Venue	League or governing body	Sport	Play
2002	Game three of the 2001 American League Division Series	New York Yankees Oakland Athletics	13 October 2001	Network Associates Coliseum, Oakland, California	Major League Baseball	Baseball	Assist by Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to catcher Jorge Posada in the game's seventh inning (known thereafter as The Flip)
2003	2002 regular season Division I-A game	Louisiana State University Tigers University of Kentucky Wildcats	9 November 2002	Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington, Kentucky	National Collegiate Athletic Association	American football	Seventy-four-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass from Tigers quarterback Marcus Randall to wide receiver Devery Henderson upon the expiration of regulation time for a Tigers win (known thereafter as the Bluegrass Miracle)
2004	2003 regular season game	New Orleans Saints Jacksonville Jaguars	21 December 2003	Alltel Stadium, Jacksonville, Florida	National Football League	American football	Forty-two-yard forward pass from Saints quarterback Aaron Brooks to wide receiver Donte' Stallworth and laterals from Stallworth to wide receiver Michael Lewis to running back Deuce McAllister to wide receiver Jerome Pathon totaling thirty-three yards for a touchdown to draw the Saints within one point of the Jaguars upon the expiration of regulation time (known thereafter as the River City Relay)
2005	Class 4A state championship game	Eastview High School Lightning Hopkins High School Royals	20 March 2005		Minnesota State High School League	Basketball	Eighteen-foot three-point field goal by Royals shooting guard Blake Hoffarber from his back upon the expiration of a first overtime to draw the Royals equal with the Lightning and to force a second overtime
2006	2005 regular season Division I-A game	University of Alabama Crimson Tide The University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles	10 September 2005	Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, Alabama	National Collegiate Athletic Association	American football	Fourth down reception by Crimson Tide wide receiver Tyrone Prothro of a forty-two-yard pass from quarterback Brodie Croyle over Golden Eagles cornerback Jasper Faulk
2007	2007 Fiesta Bowl	Boise State University Broncos University of Oklahoma Sooners	1 January 2007	University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona	National Collegiate Athletic Association	American football	Three-yard rush by Broncos running back Ian Johnson for a two-point conversion on a variant of the Statue of Liberty play executed from a play-action fake undertaken by quarterback Jared Zabransky for a Broncos overtime win

[edit] See also

Best Game ESPY Award

[edit] Notes

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