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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nick Saban has already won a Sports Emmy for his ESPN work
Former Alabama football coaching legend Nick Saban can add a Sports Emmy to his trophy case. Saban has only been at ESPN for one full college football season, but he's now a Sports Emmy winner in this year's Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent category. That's a pretty impressive accomplishment in such a short run on television, but Saban can say he's an Emmy winner as well as being one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. Even if you're not an Alabama fan, you can probably appreciate how fascinating it is to see Saban once again victorious in such an unexpected place. Congratulations to ESPN's Nick Saban on his 2025 #SportsEmmys win for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent'This is Saban's first Sports Emmy Award win & ESPN's 2nd win in this category — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 21, 2025 Emmy winner Nick Saban is quite the sentence. This article originally appeared on For The Win: Nick Saban has already won a Sports Emmy for his ESPN work
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nick Saban wins Sports Emmy after first year with ESPN following Alabama retirement
Nick Saban is already winning awards in retirement. The former Alabama head coach won a Sports Emmy for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent' on Tuesday night. It marked Saban's first Sports Emmy award. Congratulations to ESPN's Nick Saban on his 2025 #SportsEmmys win for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent'This is Saban's first Sports Emmy Award win & ESPN's 2nd win in this category — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 21, 2025 Saban beat out several other notable names in the category for the award, including Amazon Prime Video's Ryan Fitzpatrick and Richard Sherman, ESPN's Jason Kelce and CBS Sports' Jay Wright. "College GameDay" also won the Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Studio Show — Weekly." Saban joined ESPN last year after he retired from Alabama — where he won six national championships and dominated the sport for nearly two decades — and he quickly joined the network as an analyst on its 'College GameDay' show. Saban fit right in with ESPN's iconic college football pregame show each week, though he did receive three official complaints with the FCC about his swearing. 'It was a new experience,' Saban said of his time at 'College GameDay' before the announcement, via the Tuscaloosa News. 'A lot of people helped contribute to learning how to do it. I certainly appreciate them and thank them for that. We had a really good team of people who has lots of experience, I think, helped me fit in the program and hopefully we created value of some sort.' Saban will be back on the 'College GameDay' desk this fall. He's also been very outspoken about his displeasure with how the sport operates now in the new era of name, image and likeness payments. He's been floated by many as a choice for a college football commissioner, though that's a position that doesn't exist. He met with President Donald Trump about the issues recently, too, and is reportedly set to be involved in a new commission on college sports that Trump created — even though Saban isn't sure that is necessary. Regardless of what his future in the sport looks like, Saban has clearly found a great new home at ESPN with his coaching career behind him. And now, he's got some hardware to prove that.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nick Saban has already won a Sports Emmy for his ESPN work
Former Alabama football coaching legend Nick Saban can add a Sports Emmy to his trophy case. Saban has only been at ESPN for one full college football season, but he's now a Sports Emmy winner in this year's Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent category. That's a pretty impressive accomplishment in such a short run on television, but Saban can say he's an Emmy winner as well as being one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. Even if you're not an Alabama fan, you can probably appreciate how fascinating it is to see Saban once again victorious in such an unexpected place. Congratulations to ESPN's Nick Saban on his 2025 #SportsEmmys win for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent'This is Saban's first Sports Emmy Award win & ESPN's 2nd win in this category — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 21, 2025 Emmy winner Nick Saban is quite the sentence. This article originally appeared on For The Win: Nick Saban has already won a Sports Emmy for his ESPN work
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nick Saban wins Sports Emmy after first year with ESPN following Alabama retirement
Nick Saban is already winning awards in retirement. The former Alabama head coach won a Sports Emmy for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent' on Tuesday night. It marked Saban's first Sports Emmy award. Congratulations to ESPN's Nick Saban on his 2025 #SportsEmmys win for 'Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent'This is Saban's first Sports Emmy Award win & ESPN's 2nd win in this category — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) May 21, 2025 Saban beat out several other notable names in the category for the award, including Amazon Prime Video's Ryan Fitzpatrick and Richard Sherman, ESPN's Jason Kelce and CBS Sports' Jay Wright. Saban joined ESPN last year after he retired from Alabama — where he won six national championships and dominated the sport for nearly two decades — and he quickly joined the network as an analyst on its 'College GameDay' show. Saban fit right in with ESPN's iconic college football pregame show each week, though he did receive three official complaints with the FCC about his swearing. 'It was a new experience,' Saban said of his time at 'College GameDay' before the announcement, via the Tuscaloosa News. 'A lot of people helped contribute to learning how to do it. I certainly appreciate them and thank them for that. We had a really good team of people who has lots of experience, I think, helped me fit in the program and hopefully we created value of some sort.' Saban will be back on the 'College GameDay' desk this fall. He's also been very outspoken about his displeasure with how the sport operates now in the new era of name, image and likeness payments. He's been floated by many as a choice for a college football commissioner, though that's a position that doesn't exist. He met with President Donald Trump about the issues recently, too, and is reportedly set to be involved in a new commission on college sports that Trump created — even though Saban isn't sure that is necessary. Regardless of what his future in the sport looks like, Saban has clearly found a great new home at ESPN with his coaching career behind him. And now, he's got some hardware to prove that.
New York Times
14-05-2025
- Health
- New York Times
Dick Vitale says he is again cancer-free: ‘I'm on cloud nine!'
Beloved basketball broadcast Dick Vitale is cancer-free once again, he announced in a video shared to X on Wednesday. The news is the latest in a winding road of ups and downs for the 85-year-old, who has undergone multiple cancer treatments since his initial diagnosis of melanoma in 2021. 'I am ecstatic! I'm on cloud nine! (Dr. Rick Brow) said the bloodwork was perfect, and he also said four words you love to hear: 'You're cancer-free, baby!'' Vitale exclaimed. 'Wow, I can't believe it. I really am so excited. It brought me to tears when he delivered it, because as cancer patients, you know that call is nerve-racking time. It's life-changing.' My results have arrived from my SCAN & also my BLOODWORK. Dr Rick Brown the Head of Oncology @SMHCS shared with me his evaluation. @jksports @ESPNPR @TheMontagGroup @KevinNegandhi @TheVCEO @TheVFoundation @WSB_Speakers @raycoletv — Dick Vitale (@DickieV) May 13, 2025 Vitale added he's going to have a 'great Italian dinner' to celebrate. 'I feel like I won the national championship!' He said, pumping his fist in the air. Vitale underwent multiple surgeries to remove melanoma in 2021 and was then deemed cancer-free. But in October of that year, he announced he was diagnosed with lymphoma. He then announced that December that he had been diagnosed with Dysplasia — a vocal cord condition that can progress to cancer. Vitale underwent surgery on his vocal cords in February 2022 after taking a hiatus from his broadcasting duties at the start of the year due to the Dysplasia diagnosis. In the summer of 2023, he had two surgeries following a vocal cord cancer diagnosis. By that December, Vitale was again declared cancer-free, but said the treatments took a toll on his voice and he required more healing, causing him to miss the entire 2023-24 basketball season. Another surgery followed in June 2024 after a biopsy of the lymph node in his neck came back cancerous. Advertisement In January, Vitale said a scope of his vocal cords revealed he was cancer-free. He planned to return to the broadcast booth to provide color commentary for a Duke-Wake Forest game on Jan. 25, but an accident at his home unrelated to cancer resulted in the decision to postpone his return. In February, he received a standing ovation from fans, players and coaches before calling a Duke-Clemson game at Littlejohn Coliseum.
