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COLLINSWORTH EARNS TWO MORE!
 NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC Sports brought home nine awards Monday during the 28th annual Sports Emmys ceremony, including three for its coverage of the Winter Olympics. But the Turin games didn't get the gold in the top category in one of the night's upsets. NASCAR Images/Speed Channel's "Beyond the Wheel" prevailed in the outstanding live event turnaround category against the odds-on favorite, the Winter Olympics telecast, as well as CBS' "Tour de France" and NFL Network's "Game of the Week." And voters picked TNT's Ernie Johnson, who has battled cancer during the past two years, as outstanding studio host against such heavyweights as Bob Costas, Joe Buck and James Brown. ESPN/ABC Sports won 10 awards, including four each for ABC and ESPN, and one each for ESPN2 and ESPN.com. TNT won four awards, including Johnson's honor and two for its NBA coverage. Fox Sports won three awards as did HBO, with critics' favorite "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" taking home two, including outstanding sports journalism for a feature called "Uninsured." Fox Sports won another big award, live sports special, with "MLB on Fox: Postseason." It also won nods for its NASCAR and NFL coverage. One Sports Emmy apiece went to CBS, Fox Sports Net, NFL Network, Race2Replace.com/Discovery and little-known BeingStanley.com. Red Line Films won two awards for the documentary "One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar" (which aired on ESPN) and shared in another. Cris Collinsworth took home two awards: one for outstanding studio analyst for his work with HBO Sports and NBC's "Sunday Night Football" and another for sports event analyst for the NFL Network's inaugural season of its primetime game telecasts. "Absolutely unprecedented," NBC/HBO host Costas said of Collinsworth's dual wins. Al Michaels, who switched from ABC to NBC between football seasons, was named outstanding play-by-play announcer. The Winter Olympics took home three awards: music composition, graphic design and the George Wensel Technical Achievement for high-definition telecasts. It had been nominated in 10 categories. NBC also received awards for "SNF," "2006 Ford Ironman World Championship" and "Jeep World of Adventure Sports." Two of ABC's awards went for work on the NBA Finals TNT received a handful of awards, including "NASCAR on TNT & NBC" as outstanding live sports series, and its humor-filled "Inside the NBA: Playoffs" won for outstanding studio show. "The NBA on TNT" won an editing honor as well. The weekly studio show award went to ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown." Honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award was Don Ohlmeyer, who made his mark on sports TV and, as head of NBC, brought the network from third place to first in the 1990s. The event was held at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter |
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