The show highlighted the year's achievements in sports, such as the U.S. women's national soccer team's World Cup win, as President Barack Obama, Kobe Bryant and more honored Bill Russell.
hosted by Tracy Morgan, honored athletes and highlighted issues like equal pay in sports, leaning into last week's World Cup win by the United States women's national soccer team, when fans in the stadium showed their support by chanting, "Equal pay! Equal pay!"
The winner of the Pat Tillman Award for Service, Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis, whose leg was amputated after an injury in Afghanistan, said the women's World Cup team is "uncharted territory. They are going out and doing huge things. There are a lot of young people watching them. It's a movement now." Comparing the challenges women face in sports to those in the military, she said: "Just like sports, the military is very much a man's world.
The soccer team, who flew in directly from the World Cup Finals victory parade in New York City earlier on Wednesday, entered the show during a commercial break, getting a standing ovation upon their arrival into the theater and applause whenever mentioned.
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