ESPY award nominations were announced earlier today and UConn head coach Geno Auriemma is up for the Best Coach/Manager and Tina Charles is a candidate for the Best WNBA Player.

Auriemma is one of five nominees as the other candidates are Bruce Arians, who led the Indianapolis Colts to the NFL playoffs as an interim head coach, John Dankowski, who led the Duke men's lacrosse team to its second national title in the last four years, Rick Pitino, who coached the Louisville men's basketball team to the national title and Erik Spoelstra, who led the Miami Heat to a second straight NBA title.

Charles, the 2012 WNBA Most Valuable Player, is joined as nominees by Tamika Catchings of Indiana, Atlanta's Angel McCoughtry, Candace Parker of Los Angeles and Minnesota's Lindsay Whalen.