In 1993, the first ESPY Awards were held. Probably the most famous one of those awards shows.
Jim Valvano, who 10 years earlier had guided his North Carolina State Wolfpack to the NCAA Championship, gave the most memorable ESPY speech of all-time. Jimmy V would die of metastatic adenocarcinoma (cancer) less than two months later.
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