News to me … but that\’s what ESPN dude Doug White (Sr. Director of Programming and Acquisitions) said on the WSOP Conference Call. They got it for live event coverage. Woot, congrats — go poker! But really? Did they see the blurriness in the background? And did they know how terribly the heads-up was handled? And did they realize it wasn\’t \”live\” live? OK, sorry, not to throw the ESPN dudes under the Emmy bus … but really, they can\’t win for 2008, can they?
Yet with an extra year to fine-tune, it\’s gotta be pretty good that they know they have something to shoot for this year. Poker winning an Emmy would definitely be a big deal.
UPDATE: Apparently the Sports Emmys were last night. Trying to find a list of nominees and who won … but no luck so far.
