42nd Sports Emmy Awards#Programming

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| date = {{unbulleted list

| June 8, 2021

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| location = Virtual

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| network = Watch.TheEmmys.TV

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| previous = 41st

| next = 43rd

| main = {{nowrap|Emmy Awards}}

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The 42nd Sports Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in American sports television coverage in 2020. The winners were announced on June 8, 2021, via live-stream at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other apps associated.

The nominations were announced on April 20, 2021, with ESPN being the network with more nominations with 41 and the Super Bowl LV being the most nominated program, with 11.

Winners and nominees

The nominees were announced on April 20, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/sports-42nd-nominations/|title=THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES THE NOMINEES FOR THE 42nd ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS |publisher= National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=June 29, 2021|date=April 20, 2021}} Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.{{cite web|last1=Pedersen|first1=Erik|title=Sports Emmys: TNT & ESPN Lead Networks As Seven Programs Score Two Wins Apiece – Full List |url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/sports-emmys-2021-list-1234771825/|website=Deadline |access-date=June 29, 2021|date=June 8, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/sports-42nd-winners/|title=42nd Annual Sports Emmy® Awards Winners |publisher= National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=June 29, 2021|date=June 8, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sports-42nd-winners-release-full-v2.pdf|title=THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE 42nd ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS |publisher= National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |access-date=June 29, 2021|date=June 8, 2021}}

File:Ernie Johnson 2019.png, Outstanding Sports Personality/Studio Host winner]]

File:Joe Buck.png, Outstanding Sports Personality/Play-by-Play winner]]

File:Nate Burleson on December 3 2015.jpg, Outstanding Sports Personality/Studio Analyst winner]]

File:John Smoltz with Colonel Air Force (cropped).jpg, Outstanding Sports Personality/Sports Event Analyst winner]]

File:Michele Tafoya (37271800062) (cropped).jpg, Outstanding Sports Personality/Sports Reporter winner]]

File:Plarprzprueba.png, Outstanding On-Air Personality in Spanish winner]]

=Programming=

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Live Sports Special

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Live Sports Series

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Playoff Coverage

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Edited Sports Event Coverage

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Edited Sports Special

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Edited Sports Series

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  • SC Presents: 2020 – Heroes, History and Hope (ESPN)
  • Inside the NBA – Kobe Bryant Memorial (TNT)
  • NFL 360 – Black History Month (NFL Network)
  • NFL 360 – Women in Football (NFL Network)
  • The Undefeated Presents: The Stop – Living, Driving and Dying While Black (ESPN)

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Esports Coverage

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Short Sports Documentary

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  • Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible (ESPN+/ESPN)
  • E:60 – Twice the Fight: A Family’s Battle and Love of Football (ESPN)
  • NFL Films Presents: The Camden Comeback (FS1)
  • UFC Chronicles: Love, Death and Prizefighting (UFC Fight Pass)
  • The Undefeated Presents: Why I Play (ESPN)
style="width:50%"| Outstanding Long Sports Documentary

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Studio Show - Daily

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Studio Show - Limited Run

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports News/Feature Anthology

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Journalism

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Open/Tease

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Short Feature

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Long Feature

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Studio Show in Spanish

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Interactive Experience - Event Coverage

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Interactive Experience - Original Programming

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Digital Innovation

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement

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=Personality=

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Studio Host

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Play-by-Play

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Studio Analyst

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Sports Event Analyst

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Sports Reporter

!style="width:50%"| Outstanding Sports Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent

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style="width:50%"| Outstanding On-Air Personality in Spanish
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  • Pilar Pérez (ESPN Deportes)
  • Andrés Cantor (Telemundo)
  • Ernesto Jerez (ESPN Deportes)
  • Ana Jurka (Telemundo)
  • Adriana Monsalve (Univision/TUDN)
  • Mauricio Pedroza (ESPN Deportes)
  • Luis Omar Tapia (Univision/TUDN)
  • =Technical=

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    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Technical Team Event

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Technical Team Studio

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    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Camera Work - Short Form

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Camera Work - Long Form

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    • The Old World – A Mindtrip Through Europe – Toni Tillmann, Mathias Bergmann, Andreas Tillmann and Michael Tillmann (RBTV)
    • Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible (ESPN+/ESPN)
    • Return to Earth: "The Series" (Outside TV)
    • Rising Phoenix (Netflix)
    • Tua (FOX)
    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Editing - Short Forn

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Editing - Long Form

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    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Music Direction

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Studio or Production Design/Art Direction

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    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound

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    style="width:50%"| Outstanding Live Graphic Design

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Post-Produced Graphic Design

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    style="width:50%"| The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award Short Form

    !style="width:50%"| Outstanding Writing Award Long Form

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    • NFL Films Presents – The Lumberman Quarterback – Garrett Fittizzi and Ty Schadt (FS1)
    • The Arena on TNT – We Are Home (TNT)
    • Hard Knocks – Los Angeles (HBO)
    • Super Bowl LV – Before Jackie (CBS)
    • When New York Was One (FS1)
    style="width:50%"| The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award
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  • MLB Network Showcase – Statcast 3D (MLB Network)
  • FOX NASCAR – The Racing Drone (FOX/FS1)
  • FOX NFL – Megalodon (FOX)
  • MLB Postseason on tbs. – Base Cam (tbs)
  • Notre Dame Football – NBC HDR LUTs (NBC)
  • Multiple wins

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    |+ Shows that received multiple nominations

    scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Wins

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Show

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Network

    rowspan="7" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 2

    | NBA on TNT

    | TNT

    NFC Wild Card Game

    | Nickelodeon

    NFL 360

    | NFL Network

    Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

    | HBO

    Rising Phoenix

    | Netflix

    Sunday Night Football

    | NBC

    Super Bowl LV

    | CBS

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    |+ Nominations by Network

    scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Wins

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 7

    | TNT

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 6

    | ESPN

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 5

    | FS1

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 4

    | NFL Network

    rowspan="6" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 3

    | CBS

    ESPN Deportes
    FOX
    HBO
    MLB Network
    NBC
    rowspan="4" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 2

    | Netflix

    Nickelodeon
    Red Bull TV
    YouTube

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    Multiple nominations

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    |+ Shows that received multiple nominations

    scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Nominations

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Show

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 11

    | Super Bowl LV

    | CBS

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 9

    | NFL 360

    | NFL Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 7

    | E:60

    | ESPN

    rowspan="6" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 4

    | Fox NASCAR

    | FOX, FS1

    Fox NFL Sunday

    | FOX

    NFL Total Access

    | NFL Network

    Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

    | HBO

    Rising Phoenix

    | Netflix

    SC Featured

    | ESPN, ESPN2
    ESPN.com, ESPNews

    rowspan="7" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 3

    | NBA All-Star Game on TNT

    | TNT

    FOX NFL

    | FOX, NFL Network

    Greatness Code

    | Apple TV+

    Inside the NBA

    | TNT

    MLB Tonight

    | MLB Network

    The Old World – A Mindtrip Through Europe

    | RBTV

    The Undefeated Presents

    | ESPN

    rowspan="25" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 2

    | Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

    | ESPN+, ESPN

    College GameDay

    | ESPN

    FOX MLB: The Postseason

    | FOX, FS1,
    FoxSports.com, MLB Network

    Hard Knocks

    | HBO

    National League Division Series

    | MLB Network

    NBA on TNT

    | TNT

    NFC Wild Card Game

    | Nickelodeon

    NFL Films Presents

    | FS1

    NFL GameDay Morning

    | NFL Network

    NFL on CBS

    | CBS

    República Deportiva

    | Univision, TUDN

    SC Presents: 2020 – Heroes, History and Hope

    | ESPN

    SC Reportajes

    | ESPN Deportes

    Sunday NFL Countdown

    | ESPN

    Sunday Night Football

    | NBC, Peacock

    The 146th Kentucky Derby

    | NBC

    The Masters

    | CBS

    The Playbook

    | Netflix

    The Scheme

    | HBO

    The Shop: UNINTERRUPTED

    | HBO

    Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

    | NBC, NBCSN,
    Olympic Channel

    We Are the Champions

    | Netflix

    Yellow Brick Road

    | Golf Channel

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    |+ Nominations by Network

    scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Nominations

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 41

    | ESPN

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 27

    | NFL Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 26

    | FOX

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 22

    | CBS

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 19

    | FS1

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 17

    | TNT

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 15

    | NBC

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 13

    | HBO

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 10

    | MLB Network

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 9

    | Netflix

    scope=row style="text-align:center"| 8

    | ESPN Deportes

    rowspan="2" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 6

    | ABC

    NBCSN
    rowspan="3" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 5

    | RBTV

    TUDN
    Univision
    rowspan="2" scope=row style="text-align:center"|4

    | Telemundo

    YouTube
    rowspan="6" scope=row style="text-align:center"| 3

    | Apple TV+

    CBS Sports Network
    ESPN+
    Golf Channel
    Peacock
    Showtime
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    | DIRECTV

    ESPN.com
    ESPN2
    Hulu
    MotorTrend
    Nickelodeon
    Outside TV
    UFC Fight Pass

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