HBO SPORTS RECEIVES FIVE SPORTS EMMY AWARDS

Winners for the 38th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards were revealed last night in New York City.

HBO® captured five trophies.

Two of the sports division’s most acclaimed series — Hard Knocks and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel –- combined to capture three Sports Emmy® wins for production excellence in 2016. The two series combined have now won 46 Sports Emmy® Awards (Real Sports 31; Hard Knocks 15).

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel won for two segments from the 2016 season — Outstanding Sports Journalism, which the series has won 18 times, more than any other sports journalism television program — and for Outstanding Sports News Anthology, which the program has won in three of the past four years.

The following HBO Sports programs were winners:

OUTSTANDING SPORTS NEWS ANTHOLOGY

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL

OUTSTANDING SPORTS JOURNALISM

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL — THE LORDS OF THE RINGS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IOC

OUTSTANDING CAMERA WORK

HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE LOS ANGELES RAMS [NFL FILMS]

THE DICK SCHAAP OUTSTANDING WRITING AWARD

HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING — MUHAMMAD ALI: ONLY ONE

OUTSTANDING SHORT SPORTS DOCUMENTARY

STATE OF PLAY: FIGHTING CHANCE [FILM 45]

For a complete list of all the nominations and winners, go to: www.emmyonline.org/sports

The 38th Sports Emmy Award winners were revealed May 9, 2017 in New York City at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.

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