The Sager Strong Award was created in honor of an American sports reporter who covered sports for CNN, TBS, and what other station?
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Sager Strong Award The Sager Strong Award is an award for players and executives of the National Basketball Association. The award was created in honor of the longtime NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager.
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Craig Sager Craig Graham Sager Sr. (June 29, 1951December 15, 2016) was an American sports reporter, covering an array of sports from 1981 until the year of his death for CNN and its sister stations, TBS and TNT.
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Tristan Tully Tristan Marie Tully (born October 19, 1982) was an American television reporter for WSAV-TV (NBC) in Savannah, Georgia, WCTV (CBS) in Tallahassee, Florida, Sun Sports Seminole Sports Magazine, was a host for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team's spring training and Fan Fest in 2007 and was a freelance field producer for Fox Sports Net's "NCAA On Campus".
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Pardon the Interruption Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, BT Sport ESPN, XM, Sirius satellite radio services and as a downloadable podcast. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories of the day in "sports... and other stuff" (as Kornheiser put it in the show's original promo).
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Tom Verducci Tom Verducci (born December 2, 1960) is an American sportswriter who writes for "Sports Illustrated" and its online magazine SI.com. He writes primarily about baseball. He is also a field reporter for the MLB postseason on TBS. In addition, he appears on "Hot Stove" and "MLB Tonight" on MLB Network as a baseball insider.
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Chris Neville Chris Neville is a NASCAR pit road reporter currently working for Fox Sports. He is best known for his work with Fox, as well as formerly calling the Rolex Sports Car Series on SPEED, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for NASCAR on TNT, and the IndyCar Series for NBC Sports.
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Namrata Brar Namrata Brar is an Indian-American journalist, investigative reporter and news anchor. She is currently the US Bureau Chief for NDTV.
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Brent Musburger Brent Woody Musburger ( ; born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster, lead broadcaster and managing editor at Vegas Stats and Information Network (VSiN). He retired in January 2017 from the ESPN and ABC television networks. Formerly with CBS Sports and one of the original members of their program "The NFL Today", Musburger has also covered the NBA, MLB, NCAA football and basketball, and NASCAR and served as a studio host for games, a play-by-play man, and halftime host. He has also performed postgame wrap-up segments and covered championship trophy presentations. He is a member of the Montana Broadcaster's Association Hall of Fame.
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George Solomon George Solomon is a former sports editor and columnist at "The Washington Post" and was the first ombudsman for ESPN.
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Mark Whitaker (journalist) Mark Whitaker (born September 7, 1957) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and media executive. From 2011 to 2013, he was Executive Vice President and managing editor for CNN Worldwide. He was previously Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News, succeeding Tim Russert after his fatal heart attack in June 2008. He oversaw all Washington-based reporting and production for NBC and MSNBC, had executive responsibility for "Meet the Press" and supervised the network's election and political coverage, in addition to appearing as an on-air analyst. Before moving to Washington, he served as chief deputy to NBC News President Steve Capus in New York.
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Brett Haber Brett Haber is an American [[sportscaster]]. He is a [[play-by-play]] commentator and host for the [[Tennis Channel]] and several other national and regional sports outlets. Haber is also editor-at-large/sports editor for "[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]]" magazine.
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Wayne Dawson Wayne Dawson (born April 24, 1955) is an American award-winning television newscaster and co-host of "Fox 8 in the Morning", a morning show broadcast on Fox affiliate WJW-TV Channel 8, in Cleveland, Ohio. For two years prior to joining WJW in 1981, Dawson was an anchor/reporter at WNIR-AM in Kent, Ohio. A graduate of Cuyahoga Community College, Wayne moved on to Kent State University and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. Dawson currently lives in the suburb of Highland Heights, Ohio.
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Alan Schwarz Alan Schwarz (born July 3, 1968) is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Correspondent at "The New York Times" best known for writing more than 100 articles that exposed the seriousness of concussions among football players of all ages. His investigative and profile pieces are generally credited with revolutionizing the respect and protocol for head injuries in youth and professional sports. Schwarz's work was profiled in "The New Yorker" and several films, including "Head Games" and the 2013 “Frontline” PBS documentary "League of Denial". The "Columbia Journalism Review" featured him in its 2011 "Art of Great Reporting" issue and wrote of his concussion work, "He put the issue on the agenda of lawmakers, sports leagues, and the media at large — and helped create a new debate about risk and responsibility in sports." The series was described by one Hall of Fame sports writer, Murray Chass, as "the most remarkable feat in sports journalism history."
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Randy Shilts Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author. He worked as a reporter for both "The Advocate" and the "San Francisco Chronicle", as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations.
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Brock Yates Brock Wendel Yates (October 21, 1933 – October 5, 2016) was an American print and TV journalist, screenwriter and author. He was longtime executive editor of "Car and Driver", an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for CBS' coverage of certain NASCAR Sprint Cup (at the time, the Winston Cup) series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500. He was also one of the main commentators on the TNN motor sports TV show "American Sports Cavalcade" with Steve Evans. Paul Page, Gary Gerould, and Ralph Sheheen also occasionally appeared on the show. He served as a commentator on racing and vintage cars for the Speed Channel, a U.S. cable television channel affiliated with Fox Sports.
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Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host has been awarded since 1993. The award is given to an on-air personality that hosts a pregame or postgame show, or gives news during event coverage, but does not commentate on the event itself. This award is considered to be the most prestigious of all given under the Outstanding Sports Personality category. Before this subcategory was set up, an award was given to either a studio host or an event commentator from 1968 to 1992. See that article for a list of winners (Outstanding Host or Commentator).
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The Sports Reporters The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that aired on ESPN at 9:30 a.m. ET every Sunday morning (and replayed at 10:30 a.m. ET the same day on ESPN2 and 11:30 AM on ESPNews). It was broadcast from Bristol, Connecticut at the main ESPN studios. However, before 1999, it was broadcast from a studio in Manhattan. and from 1999-2010 it was recorded at the ESPN Zone at Times Square in Manhattan before it closed. The format of the show was a roundtable discussion among four sports media personalities, with one regular host and three rotating guests. The show began in 1988, patterned to some extent after the Chicago-based syndicated show called "Sportswriters on TV". ESPN Deportes, ESPN Latin America and ESPN Brasil may launch Spanish-language and Portuguese-language versions of the show in the future.
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Dylan Byers Dylan Byers is an American journalist. He is a senior reporter for media and politics at CNN. He covers the business of media for CNN Digital and regularly appears on CNN television to discuss his reporting. Byers is also a frequent contributor to CNN's Sunday media show, "Reliable Sources". He is specifically involved in CNN Money and CNN Politics.
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John Schriffen John Schriffen is a sports reporter for CBS Sports. Schriffen reports college sports as well as Army/Navy games. On weekends he participated on the "That Other Pre Game Show" on CBS.
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Kimberly Pressler Kimberly Ann Pressler (born May 21, 1977) is an American sports reporter, businesswoman, and former Miss USA who is currently on ESPN covering the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), and in June 2013 was seen side-line reporting the Red Bull X Fighters series on FUEL TV from Osaka, Japan. Ms. Pressler has been featured in People Magazine, TIME, and voted one of Stuff Magazine.’s “101 Sexiest Women in the World.”
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Fox Sports Southeast Fox Sports Southeast (originally named SportSouth from its inception until October 4, 2015) is an American regional sports network that is owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the southeastern United States, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Atlanta and Charlotte.
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Lesley Visser Lesley Candace Visser (born September 11, 1953) is an American sportscaster, television and radio personality, and sportswriter. Visser is the first female NFL analyst on TV, and the only sportscaster in history (male or female) who has worked on Final Four, NBA Finals, World Series, Triple Crown, Monday Night Football, the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Figure Skating Championships and the U.S. Open network broadcasts. Visser, who was voted the No. 1 Female Sportscaster of all-time in a poll taken by the American Sportscasters Association, was elected to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Hall of Fame in 2015.