An astonishing moment for Jim Valvano occurred on March 3, 1993 at the ESPYs, a national televised event that honors team and individual accomplishments. During the ceremony, Valvano was presented with the inaugural Arther Ashe Award for Courage. When accepting this award, Valvano, who is cancer-stricken, gave a moving speech to his audience in Madison Square Garden. He had his audience and everyone watching across the world in tears, laughter and in serious effort to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. He has been through many milestones in his life and his career that have molded him into delivering such a moving speech. This speech Valvano gave is not only one of the greatest sports speeches of all-time, but also it remains ESPN’s single greatest moment. Former college coach, Valvano, and also known for the miracle 1983 NC State title team, died weeks after delivering the speech. Due to the airtime ESPN gave him to deliver the moving speech and the power of the message given, his spirit continues to live on. At the beginning of his talk after receiving the award he explains that often people ask him about how he goes through life, or how’s your day. He replies with, “nothing is changing for me.” He quotes Dick, “I’m a very emotional…show more content… He includes anecdotes, humor, figures of speech, and ethos, logos, and pathos to connect with his audience and convey his motivating message. A method of criticism that will be used to analyze Jim Valvano’s ESPYs Speech will be the Neo-Aristotelian method. There are two proofs: inartistic and artistic. Inartistic proofs are things that cannot be controlled in a public speaking setting. Instead, the situation occurring controls them. An example of this could be temperature, the audience or outside noise. Artistic proofs are what the speaker can control. There are three kinds of artistic proofs: ethos, logos, and
