The celebrity-driven worlds of entertainment and sports are set to collide Wednesday at L.A Live's Microsoft Theater for the annual ESPY Awards, which honor the year's top sports moments and achievements.
The show, which will air on ABC, could almost give itself an award now for the cultural moment ahead — the first major public appearance by Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, the Olympic gold medal winner and reality star of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Jenner is to receive the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, so named for the universally admired tennis player who died in 1993 and was famous for his steely determination and sense of personal dignity.