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ESPN Wins Seven Sports Emmy Awards

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ESPN Wins Seven Sports Emmy Awards

Photo of Dave Nagle Dave Nagle Follow on Twitter May 7, 2014

First-Ever Sports Emmys for ESPN Deportes and 30 for 30

X Games, E:60, SportsCenter and College GameDay Honored Once Again

ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, presented for the 35th year by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences tonight in New York, highlighted by wins for two ESPN Deportes studio shows in the first year of Spanish-language categories and the first-ever Sports Emmy for the 30 for 30 film series.  In addition, previous winners of multiple Sports Emmys took the stage again to accept awards – X Games, E:60, SportsCenter and football’s College GameDay.

Overall, with three awards for studio shows, and others for a feature, journalism and a documentary series, ESPN’s hallmark of outstanding storytelling was again recognized by the company’s peers.

  • In the first year of Spanish-language categories, two ESPN Deportes entries were recognized the Best Studio Show category – SportsCenter and Nacion.
  • In another first, the acclaimed film series 30 for 30 won the Documentary Series Sports Emmy.
  • SportsCenter won its 16th Sports Emmy, for “Richie Parker:  Drive” in the Short Feature category.  Tom Rinaldi profiled Parker, a chassis and body designer for NASCAR’s Hendrick Motorsports, who was born without arms.  It was ESPN’s 21st Sports Emmy in a Features category.
  • The X Games won a Sports Emmy for the 10th time, in the Live Graphic Design category.
  • E:60 won the Sports Emmy for Journalism, for the report “Children of the Ring” by Jeremy Schaap, a hard look at the human rights issues surrounding the growing sport of children’s professional Muay Thai fighting in Thailand.  It was the E:60’s sixth Sports Emmy in its five years.
  • The football College GameDay was named the Best Weekly Studio Show for the fourth time (also in 2008, 2010 and 2011).

ESPN has now won 160 Sports Emmy Awards in 27 years of eligibility.

ESPN’s Sports Emmy Awards (all are ESPN, except as noted):

Sports Documentary Series           30 for 30                             

Studio Show/weekly                       College GameDay (football)

Journalism                                     E:60 – Children of the Ring (ESPN2)

Short Feature                                 SportsCenter – Richie Parker: Drive

Live Graphic Design                       X Games

Studio Show in Spanish                Nacion (ESPN Deportes) and SportsCenter (ESPN Deportes)

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Dave Nagle

As I write this on 11-11-21, it's now 35 years for me at ESPN, the only real job I’ve ever had. I joined merely to help with the upcoming America’s Cup in Australia. I was told it would be for three months at all of $5.50 per hour. I like to say I simply kept showing up. I’ve worked on almost every sport, plus answered viewer calls and letters (people used to write!), given tours, written the company newsletter and once drove NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon to the local airport. My travels have been varied…I’ve been to Martinsville, Darlington, Indy and Super Bowls; the America’s Cup (all 3) in San Diego and College GameDay in the sport’s meccas such as Eugene, Auburn, Lubbock, Stillwater and more; the NBA Finals, Wimbledon (16 times and counting) and the “other Bristol,” the one with a race track in Tennessee. These days, my main areas are tennis, UFC, boxing, network-wide ratings (by month/quarter/year), and corporate communications documents, including fact sheets, chronologies, lists and nearly 35 of the Year in Review press releases. UPDATE EXACTLY ONE YEAR LATER: Today, November 11, 2022, I am retiring from ESPN -- 36 years to the day I began. As I ride off into the sunset – top down and E Street Radio blaring – I do so with so many wonderful memories, proud of my contributions and a heart full of gratitude for the opportunity. 
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