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unusual facts about 1993 in sports



Best Driver ESPY Award

The Best Driver ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Best Auto Racing Driver ESPY Award, has been presented annually since 1993 to the motorsports driver, irrespective of racing series or sort or nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.

Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award

The Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional female tennis player adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.

Best Fighter ESPY Award

The award subsumed the Best Boxer ESPY Award, limited exclusively to boxers, which was presented between 1993 and 2006, inclusive.

Mike Thibault

Contemporaneously, Thibault worked for USA Basketball as a coach for the United States national team, leading the national side to a gold medal at the 1993 FIBA World Championship qualifying tournament and a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.

Winter Pan American Games

The second Winter Pan American Games were to take place in Santiago, Chile in 1993, but due to scheduling problems, the United States Olympic Committee declined to participate, and PASO decided to cancel the Games.


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