| Outstanding Live Sports Special | Outstanding Live Sports Series |
| NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC* ESPN Monday Night Football, ESPN* HBO World Championship Boxing/PPV Boxing, HBO* MLB on Fox, FOX* NBA on TNT, TNT |
| Outstanding Live Event Tournaround | Outstanding Playoff Coverage |
| Inside the Headsets - The 27th All-Star Challenge, SPEED/NASCAR Media Group* 2011 Tour de France, CBS/Versus* 2011 Track & Field World Championships, NBC* Inside the PGA Tour - PGA Tour Playoffs, Golf Channel/PGA Tour Entertainment* The USA Pro Cycling Challenge - Rematch in the Rockies, Versus/Blink Productions | NBC NFL Wildcard Saturday, NBC* 2011 Big East Tournament, ESPN* MLB on Fox - ALCS, FOX* NBA Playoffs on TNT, TNT* SEC Football Championship Game - Georgia vs. LSU, CBS* The 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup, ESPN |
| Outstanding Edited Sports Special | Outstanding Sports Documentary |
| Outside the Lines - Joplin: City of Hope, ESPN2* 24/7 - Mayweather/Ortiz, HBO* Derek Jeter 3K, HBO* - 'Risk' Special, ESPN2* Sharpe Focus - Journey to Canton, NFL Network | A Game of Honor, Showtime/CBS Sports* Catching Hell, ESPN* McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice, HBO* Runnin' Rebels of UNLV, HBO* The Marinovich Project, ESPN* Unguarded, ESPN |
| Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology | Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly |
| The Franchise - A Season with the San Franisco Giants, Showtime/MLB Productions* A Football Life, NFL Network* ', ESPN2* NFL Turning Point, Versus/NFL Films* World of Adventure Sports, NBC | Inside the NBA, TNT* College GameDay, ESPN* Football Night in America, NBC* Inside the NFL, Showtime/CBS Sports* Sunday NFL Countdown, ESPN |
| Outstanding Studio Show - Daily | Outstanding Sports Journalism |
| MLB Tonight, MLB Network* Inside the NBA - Playoffs, TNT* NASCAR Now, ESPN* Pardon the Interruption, ESPN* SportsCenter, ESPN* SportsNation, ESPN2 | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - The College Bowl Game Money Trail, HBO* - Nightmare, ESPN2* - Stranger Than Fiction, ESPN2* - The Athletes of Bahrain, ESPN2* Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Tennis Coach/Child Molester, HBO |
| Outstanding Short Feature | Outstanding Long Feature |
| - Together, ESPN2 SportsCenter - Time Out of Mind, ESPN* Football Night in America - The Greatest Gift, NBC* Human Highlight Reel - Manny Ohonme: The Great Samaritan, CBS/CBS Turner Sports* SportsCenter - White Gold, ESPN* Winter X Games XV - Kevin Michael Connolly, ESPN | Outside the Lines - The Man Behind the Red Bandana, ESPN* - Dead Solid Perfect, ESPN2* NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - Amongst Friends: A Story of Loss and Healing, CBS* Outside the Lines - Never Forgotten, ESPN* Outside the Lines - The Promise, ESPN |
| Outstanding Open/Tease | Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage |
| NBA on TNT - NBA Forever, TNT* 2011 NBA Playoffs on TNT - Dominoes, TNT* 2011 Open Championship - Round 3 - Saturday Open, ESPN* 24/7 - Flyers-Rangers: Road to the NHL Winter Classic, HBO* The Army-Navy Game, CBS* The Indianapolis 500, ABC/ESPN | PGA Championship LIVE on PGA.com, PGA.com* March Madness on Demand, NCAA.com/CBS Sports/Turner Sports* MLB.com at Bat 11, MLB Advanced Media* NBA League Pass, NBA.com/NBA Digital* NFL Sunday Ticket Experience, DIRECTV |
| Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming | |
| A Game of HonorCBSSports.com* Football Freakonomics, NFL Network/NFL.com* Sport Science, ESPN.com* Sunday Night Football Extra, NBCSports.com* The NFL Season: A Biography, NFL Network/NFL.com | |
| Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host | Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play |
- Bob Costas, NBC Sports/MLB Network
- * Bryant Gumbel, HBO
- * Dan Patrick, NBC/DIRECTV
- * Ernie Johnson, TNT/NBA TV
- * James Brown, CBS/Showtime
| Joe Buck, FOX Sports* Al Michaels, NBC* Jim Nantz, CBS* Marv Albert, CBS/TBS/TNT* Mike Emrick, NBC/Versus |
| Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Analyst | Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Event Analyst |
| Charles Barkley, CBS/NBA TV/TNT* Al Leiter, MLB Network* Cris Collinsworth, Showtime* Harold Reynolds, MLB Network* Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN* Skip Bayless, ESPN2* Trent Dilfer, ESPN | Cris Collinsworth, NBC* Gary Danielson, CBS* Jim Kaat, MLB Network* Jon Gruden, ESPN* Mike Mayock, NBC/NFL Network |
| Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Reporter | |
| Michele Tafoya, NBC'* Craig Sager, TBS/TNT* Ken Rosenthal, FOX* Pierre McGuire, NBC/Versus* Tracy Wolfson'', CBS | |
