Posted 12:00 PM | May 7, 2013
HBO collected six awards, the second most of any single network, at the 34th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards held in New York City. 'Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel' received two Sports Emmy Awards this year and has now been honored with 25 Sports Emmy Awards in the program's history. The show was honored with the award for Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology and for it's feature "Steve Gleason: Tragic Hero," it won the award for Outstanding Long Feature.
The '24/7' reality franchise took home the trophy for Outstanding Editing for the fifth consecutive year. The 'Hard Knocks' franchise also captured a Sports Emmy for its series featuring the Miami Dolphins. The Outstanding Sports Documentary Emmy for the film 'Namath' marks the seventh time HBO has captured the award, and the fifth time in the past six years.
'Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel' is also being honored with its first ever Peabody award, in recognition of its enterprising coverage of stories in 2012. Among the stories noted by the selection committee were: fan-on-fan violence at major sporting events in the U.S.; painkiller abuse in NFL locker rooms; and the deadly hazing of a Florida A&M drum major, who was a member of the school's legendary marching band. The announcement from the Peabody Awards Committee stated, "Gumbel's show continued to be one of TV's finest news magazines, period."
Outstanding Edited Sports Series
Sports Emmy® Award | 2013
Outstanding Long Feature
Sports Emmy® Award | 2013 | "Steve Gleason: Tragic Hero"
Peabody Award
2012
Excellence in Broadcast Journalism
duPont-Columbia University Award | 2011
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2011 | "The Missing Link"
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2009 | "Running For Their Lives," Bernard Goldberg, Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2008 | "Headgames: NFL Concussions," Bernard Goldberg, Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2007 | "Uninsured," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2007 | Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2006 | "Fields Of Hate Soccer Racism," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Long Feature
Sports Emmy® Award | 2006 |"Labor Of Love The Hoyts," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award
2006 | "Camel Jockeys Sport Of Sheikhs," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2005 | "Camel Jockeys Sport Of Sheikhs," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Edited Sport Series/Anthology
Sports Emmy® Award | 2005 | Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2004 | "Marcus Dixon," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Long Feature
Sports Emmy® Award | 2004 | "Alex Zanardi," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Edited Sports Series
Sports Emmy® Award | 2003 | Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2002 | "Amare Stoudmire," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2001 | "Dominican Republic Baseball," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Outstanding Sports Journalism
Sports Emmy® Award | 2000 | "Fake Golf Clubs" Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
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