The Peacock Was The Toast Of Last Night's Sports Emmys

NBC received 13 awards at the 24th annual Sports Emmys last night in N.Y., and 11 of those awards were for the net's '02 Winter Olympics coverage, according to Andrew Grossman of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. ESPN won six Emmys, while HBO took home five and ESPN2 and Fox each garnered four. ABC and CBS received two apiece. NBC won in the live series category for its "NBA on NBC" telecast, a moment that NBC Sports Chair Dick Ebersol termed "bittersweet," stemming from the net losing its NBA rights after last season. Ebersol, when asked if he regrets losing NBA rights, said, "No, no, no. GE doesn't like write-downs." HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" won for anthology series. ESPN garnered awards for "SportsCenter" for short feature and long feature; "Baseball Tonight" for daily studio show; and "OTL" in the journalism category. Fox' Tim McCarver won in the analyst category for his MLB work, and Fox' Joe Buck won for play-by-play. Bob Costas, who works for HBO and NBC, won the studio host Emmy for his work on the Olympics and HBO's "Inside the NFL." HBO's Cris Collinsworth won for studio analyst for "Inside the NFL." Meanwhile, the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to the late Roone Arledge, the former head of ABC Sports and ABC News (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 4/22).