FILE - This Aug. 20, 2012 file photo released by ABC shows co-host Robin Roberts during a broadcast of "Good Morning America," in New York. Roberts is being recognized by Diane von Furstenberg with a DVF lifetime leadership award for the ?extraordinary grace and courage? she has shown in her fight against breast cancer and a blood disorder. The public participated in online voting for the People?s Voice Award nominees, celebrating women who use ?vision, resources and commitment? to further positive change. Each DVF award winner receives $50,000 for her cause . (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik, File)
FILE - This Aug. 20, 2012 file photo released by ABC shows co-host Robin Roberts during a broadcast of "Good Morning America," in New York. Roberts is being recognized by Diane von Furstenberg with a DVF lifetime leadership award for the ?extraordinary grace and courage? she has shown in her fight against breast cancer and a blood disorder. The public participated in online voting for the People?s Voice Award nominees, celebrating women who use ?vision, resources and commitment? to further positive change. Each DVF award winner receives $50,000 for her cause . (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? ESPN is staying in the family in giving its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Robin Roberts at its annual ESPY awards this summer.
The "Good Morning America" anchor is being saluted for how she kept viewers involved in her treatments for two serious illnesses. She had breast cancer in 2007 and last year had to undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder. Roberts returned to "Good Morning America" last month.
Roberts came to sister company ABC from ESPN, where she was the network's first black female sportscaster.
Most past awards recipients have sports connections, like former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt last year. But the ESPYs also have honored Nelson Mandela and the four men who tried to stop one of the Sept. 11 hijackings.
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