The ESPY Awards showered kudos on feminine athletes throughout Wednesday’s glitzy ceremony on the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Fortuitously, the honorees delivered sufficient inspiration and muscular prowess — see: rugby star Ilona Maher, who was honored as breakthrough athlete of the 12 months — to offset the edgy jabs geared toward ladies within the monologue from ESPYs host Shane Gillis.

A rundown of highlights from the ESPY Awards and a salute to Disneyland on its seventieth birthday are the tales are included in at the moment’s installment of “Every day Selection,” a brand new podcast that options conversations with Selection journalists about information, traits and personalities making waves in media and leisure.

I bumped into ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro within the Dolby foyer after the ESPYs had been over. We talked in regards to the very massive, considerably sophisticated gross sales pitch that the Worldwide Chief is getting ready to lob at shoppers because it launches its standalone ESPN streaming app later this fall. The EPSYs telecast included a 60-second spot that introduced the streaming app launch as an amazing leap ahead for sports activities followers, a lot because the daybreak of the unique ESPN cable channel was again in 1979.

“There are two issues which can be taking place this fall. The primary is, we’re going direct to shopper. The second is, we’re enhancing the app,” Pitaro tells me. “So in that spot, we’re principally telling you that there’s a new day for ESPN. Come this fall, you’ll have the ability to entry all of our content material, all of ESPN, multi function place, and that’s the ESPN app. And so whether or not you’re on a sensible tv otherwise you’re in your telephone or your pill, we would like you to fireside up the ESPN app to get the very best sports activities expertise.”

From the ESPYs, we flip to a take a look at Disneyland on the event of its seventieth birthday. My Selection colleagues Jazz Tangcay, senior artisans editor, and Carole Horst, deputy editor for options, assembled a package deal of tales that take a look at the artwork and science behind the park. Particularly, they went to Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale to get a hands-on take a look at how their cutting-edge work is expressed at Disneyland and different Disney parks.

The sheer scope of the artistic and technical exercise overseen by Imagineers is spectacular, Horst says.

“Once we had our tour, we noticed all of the points of Imagineering. We noticed how they developed the Spider-Man present that’s on the Avengers campus with the robotic that flies via the air, to the sculpture room the place they create fashions and sculptures. That is one thing that I feel is exclusive to Disney,” Horst says.

Tangcay says she was struck by how spirit of Walt Disney himself nonetheless guides the dedication to R&D and funding in cutting-edge expertise.

“We actually bought an perception into their considering and it’s very a lot in tune with Walt Disney — simply staying in contact with the inside little one,” Tangcay says. “It’s these tiny particulars that you simply by no means actually take note of. Even the odor — they discuss in regards to the water odor that you’ve got on Pirates of the Caribbean and It’s a Small World.”

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(Pictured: Rugby star Ilona Maher on the ESPY Awards)