On July 13 , 2016 , Sager was awarded the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the 2016 ESPY Awards show for battling cancer . In a moving acceptance speech , Sager , then terminally ill , said to both those gathered and to the national television audience : On December 13 , 2016 , Sager was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame , a career honor which took place just two days before his death . The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences posthumously awarded Sager with his first Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality , Sports Reporter at the 2017 ceremony
2016 ESPY Awards
2016 ESPY Awards
Craig Sager