29th Sports Emmy Awards

The 29th Sports Emmy Awards honoring American sports coverage in 2007 was presented on April 28, 2008 at Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City. The nominees were announced on March 13.^[1]

29th Sports Emmy Awards
Date	April 28, 2008
Location	Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York City
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Awards

Programs

Outstanding Live Sports Special	Outstanding Live Sports Series
BCS on FOX: Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, FOX 2007 Open Championship, ABC/ESPN 2007 AFC Championship Game, CBS 2007 Daytona 500, FOX NFL Wild Card Playoff: Dallas vs. Seattle, NBC Super Bowl XLI, CBS	NASCAR on FOX, FOX Monday Night Football, ESPN NBA on ESPN/NBA on ABC, ESPN/ABC NBC Golf Tour, NBC NFL on FOX, FOX NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC
Outstanding Live Event Turnaround	Outstanding Edited Sports Special
Quest for the Cup, VOOM De La Hoya vs Mayweather Delay Broadcast, HBO Inside the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Productions NFL Mic'd Up: Ravens vs. 49ers, NFL Network 2007 Tour de France, CBS	De La Hoya-Mayweather 24/7, HBO Super Bowl 360, ESPN 2007 Ironman World Championship, NBC The Natural: Major League Baseball Celebrates an Epic, ESPN2 Unsettled Scores, ESPN2
Outstanding Sports Documentary	Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology
Ghosts of Flatbush, HBO Barbaro: A Nation's Horse, NBC Dale, NASCAR Images Jonestown: The Game of Their Lives, ESPN Triumph and Tragedy: The Ray Mancini Story, ESPN Classic	America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions, NFL Networks Greatest High School Football Rivalries, Versus Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs, HBO HBO Boxing: Countdown Shows, HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, HBO
Outstanding Studio Show, Weekly	Outstanding Studio Show, Daily
College Gameday, ESPN [[Football Night in America, NBC Inside the NBA, TNT Inside the NFL, HBO FOX NFL Sunday, FOX	Inside the NBA, TNT NASCAR Now, ESPN2 Pardon the Interruption, ESPN SportsCenter, ESPN Wimbledon Tonight, NBC
Outstanding Sports Journalism	Outstanding Short Feature
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Headgames: The NFL Concussion Crisis, HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Broken: The NFL Disability Debate, HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Dogfighting: Bred to Die, HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Fading Hope: Sports in Iraq, HBO	Sunday NFL Countdown - Fear, ESPN College Gameday - Martin van Zant, ESPN Inside the NFL - Coal Miner's Sons: The Jones Brothers, HBO Inside the NFL - Packers Fans Rebuild, HBO MLB 2007: Never Miss A Game - Never Too Early, ESPN
Outstanding Long Feature	Outstanding Open/Tease
NFL Films Presents: Finding Your Butkus, NFL Network E:60 - Ray of Hope, ESPN NBA TV Game Night - 59th and Prairie: Dwyane Wade's Journey - A Story Told by Terrence Howard, NBC TV Outside the Lines - Still Alive, ESPN The Super Bowl Today - Bill Walsh, CBS The Super Bowl Today - Hines Ward, CBS	Super Bowl XLI - Tease, CBS 107th U.S. Open Championship - The Open Returns to Steel City, NBC 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee - Championship Round, ABC Barbaro: A Nation's Horse, NBC De La Hoya-Mayweather 24/7 - Episode 1, HBO Indianapolis 500 - Tease: All Roads Lead to Indy, ABC NBA Playoffs - Opening Night Tease, TNT
Outstanding New Approaches - Coverage	Outstanding New Approaches - Long Form
Fantasy Football Now, ESPN.com Amen Corner Live, CBSSports.com Fantasy Focus Baseball, ESPN.com Fantasy Football Live, Yahoo! Sports Live@ Series, PGATour.com NFL.com LIVE, NFL Network	Ray of Hope, ESPN.com Kevin Streelman, 24 Hours to the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Productions 2007 Shared Summits K2 Expedition, NBCSports.com Fan Life: Full Tilt Full Time, HBO Ruth Lovelace: Chasing a Dream, NBCSports.com
Outstanding New Approaches - General Interest
Death Race 2007, ESPN.com An UnAmerican Tragedy, ESPN.com Anatomy of a Play, NFL Network Don't Be Like Mike, ESPN.com Inside Spring Training with the White Sox, 312 Media

Personalities

Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host	Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play
James Brown, CBS Al Trautwig, Versus Bob Costas, HBO/NBC Bryant Gumbel, HBO Ernie Johnson, Jr., TNT/TBS	Al Michaels, NBC Jim Lampley, HBO Jim Nantz, CBS Joe Buck, FOX Marv Albert, TNT Mike Emrick, NBC
Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Analyst	Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Event Analyst
Cris Collinsworth, HBO/NBC Charles Barkley, TNT Cris Carter, HBO Jay Bilas, ESPN Terry Bradshaw, FOX Tom Jackson, ESPN	John Madden, NBC Doug Collins, TNT Gary Danielson, CBS Phil Simms, CBS Tim McCarver, FOX Troy Aikman, FOX

Technical

Outstanding Technical Team Remote	Outstanding Technical Team Studio
ESPN NASCAR, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 NASCAR on FOX, FOX NBC Golf Tour, NBC NFL on FOX, FOX Red Bull Air Race World Series, FSN	MLB Postseason on TBS, TBS Football Night in America, ABC NASCAR on FOX, FOX NFL on FOX: FOX NFL Sunday, FOX The NFL Today, CBS
Outstanding Camera Work	Outstanding Editing
Mayweather-Hatton 24/7, HBO Down the Barrel, ESPN2 Focused - Human Flight, Rush HD Focused - The Future of Freestyle Skiing 2007, Rush HD Inside the NFL, HBO Road to the Super Bowl, NFL Network 2007 Ironman World Championship, NBC	Ali's 65, ESPN Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Kansas City Chiefs, HBO Mayweather-Hatton 24/7, HBO Sports Science, FSN Sunday NFL Countdown - Fear, ESPN Super Bowl XLI, CBS
The Dick Schaap Writing Award	Outstanding Music Direction/Composition/Lyrics
Mayweather-Hatton 24/7, HBO 2007 ING New York City Marathon - Alec Baldwin Open, NBC Costas Now - The Year of the Cheat, HBO E:60 - A Dream Come True: Gunnar Esiason, ESPN Every Man a Tiger: The Eddie Robinson Story, NBC Inside the NFL - Lewis Black: Miami Vice & Lonely in LA, HBO	Ghosts of Flatbush, HBO Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Kansas City Chiefs, HBO NBA on TNT - NBA Promos on TNT, TNT America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions, NFL Network Barbaro, HBO Dale, NASCAR Images Kabul Girls Club, ESPN2 US Open Tennis Championship - Tease, CBS
Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound	Outstanding Post Produced Audio/Sound
MLB on FOX, FOX Arena Football, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 NASCAR on FOX, FOX NHL on NBC, NBC World Championship Boxing]], HBO	MLB on FOX: Pre Game Show, FOX US Open Tennis Championship, CBS NFL on FOX: FOX NFL Sunday, FOX Road to the Super Bowl, NFL Network
Outstanding Graphic Design	Outstanding Production Design/Art Direction
Sport Science, FSN ESPN NASCAR, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Football Night in America/NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC NBA on TNT - Playoffs, TNT NBA Finals on ABC - Tease/Open, ABC	NBA All-Star Saturday Night - Tease and various re-teases, TNT 107th U.S. Open Championship - The Open Returns to the Steel City, NBC Amazing Sport Stories, FSN BCS on FOX, FOX NBA All-Star Game - Wasteland Tease, TNT Sport Science, FSN
The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award
PGA TOUR and LPGA Coverage - AimPoint, Golf Channel ESPN NASCAR - Draft Track, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Golf on CBS - Swing Vision, CBS Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta - The 1960 Masters - Color Restoration and Colorization, CBS Sport Science - Sport Science Laboratory, FSN

Sports Lifetime Achievement Award

• Frank Chirkinian, Golf producer

References

1. . National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. March 13, 2008. Archived from the original on March 18, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2008.