The 2023 ESPN ESPY Awards this week featured 27 different award categories, and Oklahoma softball was represented in two of them.
Hollywood, California, the epicenter for glitz and glamor, seemed like a most fitting setting for the annual awards program, which honors the best individual and team athletic performances of the past year in both professional and amateur ranks.
The 2023 national championship Oklahoma softball team was one of seven nominated in the ‘Best Team” category and the Sooners’ star pitcher on that team, Jordy Bahl, was a nominee for “Best Athlete, Women’s Sports.”
The Sooners came up empty handed in both award categories, but the one that hurt the most was the one for Best Team, which probably should have been renamed “Most Popular Sports Team.