Caitlyn Jenner Allegedly Selected For Arthur Ashe Award Over A Disabled Iraq Veteran
10 years ago

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The ESPYs are terrible. It is a nauseating pat-me-on-the-back-for-my-diving-catch award show where celebrities and athletes meet for one long night of #sponsored, #branding entertainment in Los Angeles. That being said, the ESPYs usually do one thing right: The Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

Previous winners include Muhammad Ali, Stuart Scott, Jim Valvano, Robin Roberts, Nelson Mandela and Michael Sam. Scott, who gave an inspiring speech at last year’s ESPY awards, died of cancer in January.

So, when ESPN announced on Monday that Caitlyn Jenner would be selected as the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, it deservedly turned some heads, especially when people learned who Jenner beat out for the award.

Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and a leg in roadside bomb in Iraq and now competes in Crossfit events nationwide, is rumored to have been the selection before Jenner was hand-picked by ESPN’s ratings-driven executives.

Other names mentioned for the award include TNT court-side reporter Craig Sager, who is currently battling leukemia, former Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, a cancer survivor, and Lauren Hill, the Division III basketball player with a terminal brain tumor who played in one game in November before passing away in April.

It appears ESPN went for a ratings grab with reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, and that’s a real shame. While she no doubt has courage and is the celebrity face of the under-represented transgender community, her achievements don’t hold a candle to those of Noah Galloway and Lauren Hill.

The ESPYs will have at least one less viewer this year.

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  2. Dip13

    Respect to Galloway and Hill for sure. However, reading through the comments here makes it clear why Jenner won. There are still a shit ton of bigots in America which is evident in these comments. In addition you can toss around “reality TV star” all you want but in actual realoty Jenner was won of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time, now breaking boundaries.

    But feel free to keep thumbing up your bigoted comments about transgendered people and I’ll take my laps. When the SJWs get to this article toss me some likes guys.

    10 years ago at 7:49 am
  3. Fatina

    I am beginning to lose any faith I still have left in this country. I believe it is time to kick some pansy liberal ass and take back what is rightfully ours.

    10 years ago at 9:21 am
  6. mattyj24

    I understand that if they would have given it to “Bruce Jenner” the actual athlete, but to give it to some girl that has never played a sport or done anything really.

    10 years ago at 10:42 am
  7. anttiniemi

    Also, how do you determine that you are ‘a woman inside’? If you are a male who likes to wear dresses and lipstick you aren’t a woman, you’re a man who likes to wear dresses and lipstick.

    10 years ago at 12:39 pm
  8. 6Fratagonia9

    Okay I’m a social liberal, Economic conservative, but Caitlyn Jenner is not a hero. I believe in LGBT rights and such, but she/he did nothing to earn the title to be considered a hero. He/she is actually the opposite in that he/she killed someone in an auto accident that was his fault recently

    10 years ago at 12:18 am
  9. russellcoolaid

    I didn’t know who Bruce Jenner was but I’ve just looked up his daughters, and I am 100% willing to be their new daddy. Maybe I’ll win an ESPY next year.

    10 years ago at 12:30 am
  10. Fraternal_Lion

    I don’t want to have kids that grow up in a society that praises people who have a sex change as “heroes”. Putting Bruce Jenner in the spotlight and on the same level as Stuart Scott and others in the past who won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award is so insulting and pretty much disgusting. Fuckin’ liberals, man.

    10 years ago at 11:14 pm