ESPYs 2018: Predicting Winners for Top Award Categories
Set to be hosted by former race car driver Danica Patrick, the 2018 ESPYs are one of the few events that truly represent sports this summertime.
At the moment, we're going through the All-Star break in Major League Baseball, the National Football League will be starting up early September and we've already seen Wimbledon come and go.
The 26th annual ESPY Award ceremony will be broadcast on ESPN on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. However, if you're not around a television at that time, you can always tune in on the WatchESPN app.
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We've seen plenty of remarkable sporting moments take place over the past year, and it's only right some of the participants are rewarded.
So why don't we look at four awards and predict their winners? Let's get started.
Best Male Athlete
Jose Altuve, Houston Astros
James Harden, Houston Rockets
Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
Tom Brady, New England Patriots
We can make this one short and sweet. Altuve, Ovechkin and Harden are all superb athletes, but this one is about as easy to predict as any.
Although the New England Patriots lost in Super Bowl LII, Brady has defied the odds for a 40-year-old athlete, earning his third MVP award, throwing for over 500 yards in the Super Bowl and owning the record for the most regular-season wins by a quarterback with 187.
Altuve has been excellent after hitting nearly .350 for the Houston Astros, Ovechkin was inspirational in helping the Washington Capitals win their first Stanley Cup, and Harden was fantastic as he averaged over 30 points per game for the Houston Rockets.
However, none of these men come close to matching Brady.
Prediction: Tom Brady
Best Female Athlete
Sylvia Fowles, Minnesota Lynx, WNBA
Chloe Kim, Snowboard
Julie Ertz, Chicago Red Stars/United States Women's National Soccer Team
Like the male award, the Best Female Athlete winner is fairly easy to figure out.
With all due respect to Fowles and Ertz, Kim will run away with this award.
The 17-year-old snowboarder rose to prominence when she became the youngest woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in the halfpipe, with almost a perfect score.
Prediction: Chloe Kim
Best Team
Houston Astros, MLB
Philadelphia Eagles, NFL
Notre Dame Fighting Irish, NCAA Women's Basketball
Villanova Wildcats, NCAA Men's Basketball
Golden State Warriors, NBA
Washington Capitals, NHL
One name instantly sticks out for the Best Team award: the Golden State Warriors.
The Philadelphia Eagles may have taken out the Patriots in the Super Bowl with Nick Foles at quarterback, but no team has been as dominant as the Warriors.
Say what you want about their roster makeup or how they are destroying the NBA, but they have won three titles in four years and just swept the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Warriors will take this one home.
Prediction: Golden State Warriors.
Best Game
Houston Astros defeat Los Angeles Dodgers, World Series Game 5
Georgia Bulldogs defeat Oklahoma Sooners, Rose Bowl
USA Women's Hockey defeats Canada, 2018 Winter Olympics
This one is going to the USA Women's Hockey team for their performance at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
For the first time in 20 years, Team USA defeated Canada. Not only did they beat them, they did so in a shootout on a terrific goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson.
Georgia came back from a 17-point deficit and the Astros won 13-12 in 10 innings, but a feat being achieved for the first time in 20 years? That's an easy winner in my eyes.
Prediction: USA Women's Hockey
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