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NBC Sports and Universal Sports will deliver four hours of live coverage from the 2011 AT&T American Cup gymnastics competition on Saturday, March 5 beginning at 11 a.m. ET on Universal Sports and continuing live on NBC at 1 p.m. ET. NBC’s Olympic gymnastics broadcast team of Al Trautwig, Tim Daggett, Elfi Schlegel, and Andrea [...]

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The leading voice and resource for professional women in the business of sports and events ‘Women in Sports & Events (WISE)’ announced the recipients of the 2011 WISE Women of the Year Awards. 2011 WISE Women of the Year Award recipients are: Stacey Allaster, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Tennis Association (WTA); Lisa Baird, [...]

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General Motors and NBC Universal have entered a new media partnership related to NBC’s U.S. coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games that provides GM with exclusive domestic automotive advertising rights. GM has advertised within NBC’s coverage of the Games since the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Chevrolet and Cadillac will have a major advertising [...]

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Fox Sports Media Group and Conference USA signed a new multi-year agreement for national television rights to a variety of marquee Conference USA events, including football, basketball, and Olympic sports. This new agreement comes into effect with the 2011 football season, was announced today by Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky and FOX Sports Networks President [...]

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Universal Sports has announced that it will present nine day tribute to iconic Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan who passed away over the Christmas holidays with “Nine Nights of Glory” beginning Saturday, New Year’s Day at 9 p.m. ET. Universal Sports will broadcast a different award-winning Greenspan Olympic film for nine consecutive nights. The tribute comes [...]

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The 14th Annual Heroes Event, ‘Holiday Heroes’ to take place at AT&T Park on Tuesday, December 7. Formerly Halloween Heroes, the 2nd annual “Holiday Heroes” proceeds from this special evening benefit the Junior Giants Baseball Program, Always Dream Foundation, Raphael House, Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. [...]

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NBC Sports will present the Aspen Winternational coverage on Sunday, November 28 at 1 PM ET from Aspen, Colorado. Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.), Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, Calif.) and World Cup leader, Maria Riesch of Germany, take center stage Thanksgiving weekend when the Visa Aspen Winternational kicks off the classic North American [...]

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NBC Sports was awarded three Olympic Golden Rings including two gold and one silver on Thursday, September 17 in Lausanne, Switzerland at the International Olympic Committee’s biennial ceremony for its coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. NBC Sports also took Two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Coverage in [...]

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Eight Special Olympics Minnesota athletes will join nearly 300 other athletes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia to participate together as Team USA at the 2011 World Summer Games in Athens, Greece, June 25- July 4, 2011. The Minnesotans selected to Team USA include: Jake Sawyer, 21, a swimmer from Champlin Amy [...]

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The Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games coverage on NBC Sports received two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. NBC Sports will receive the awards from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Saturday, August 28 in Los Angeles. The two awards are: Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic, Multi-Camera) For Variety, Music or Comedy [...]

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