The 2011 ESPY Awards ( Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) were held last night at the Nokia Theatre L.A and was broadcast Live by the sports channel ESPN . This event has been around since 1993 and you could say is the Sporting equivalent of The Academy or Grammy Awards. It’s a big one and yes Maria Sharapova was there! It rewards and recognises individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the preceding year. We’ve gone all out on the photo stakes on this one due to its sheer size with Red Carpet Arrivals, Show, Press room and Backstage photos.
2011 ESPY Awards Red Carpet Arrivals
So who was there. It’s more of a question of who wasn’t. Names included tennis stars Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova,Indy race star Danica Patrick, Brookyln Decker of Sports Illustrated fame, Tim Thomas the Hockey player and other not so sporting stars but more in a Hollywood or musical style included names such as Amber Heard, Kendra Wilkinson, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Reynolds. That’s for starters!
The regular host Seth Meyers got the proceedings underway and didn’t waste anytime in raising a few laughs by launching into some comments about the SF Giants Brian Wilson’s and his arrival on the red carpet in a Spandex Tuxedo? Awards winners at the event included Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, Li Na and Jimmie Johnson. Full Winners list and Red Carpet Arrivals list below
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2011 ESPY Awards Press Room
Maria Sharapova grabs the headline though, she didn’t win an award but she was there and just grabs it for well…….er………. just being Maria Sharapova really!
Photo Credit: ambe60
The 2011 ESPY Awards The Winners.



















