4/20: Sam Flood '83 Coordinating Producer, NBC Sports on "The Game of Sports Television"
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – Sam
Flood '83, Coordinating Producer, NBC Sports, will
speak at Williams College at 7:00 pm in Griffin Hall, Room 3 on
Monday. April 20.
Flood's talk is titled: "Grab some snacks sit back and watch the
Game/Race/Olympics on TV... The Game of Sports Television."
Flood will be on hand to present the 20th Frank Deford Award to
the top student sports information assistant(s) at Williams.
A question and answer session will follow.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Sam Flood was named Coordinating Producer, NBC Sports, in July
2005. He continues to produce the NHL on NBC, NBC’s NFL
studio show “Football Night in America,” and NBC
Sports’ horse racing coverage, including the Kentucky Derby
and Preakness Stakes.
Bob Costas (host) and Cris Collinsworth (co-host), Keith Olbermann
(co-host) and Dan Patrick (co-host), analysts Tiki Barber and
Jerome “The Bus” Bettis, and reporter Peter King of
Sports Illustrated comprise the highly-acclaimed “Football
Night in America” studio team.
A 10-time Emmy Award winner, Flood produced the Olympic Closing
Ceremony from Salt Lake in 2002 and the Torino Closing Ceremony in
2006.
Flood produced the 2009 NHL Winter Classic from Chicago's Wrigley
Field between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings on
January 1st. It is expected that he will also produce the 2010
Winter Classic from Boston's Fenway Park on New Year's Day. Flood
has also produced World Track & Field Championships, Olympic
Track & Field from 1996 to 2008, the Daytona 500, World Series
pre-game coverage, and the NFL.
Flood earned a bachelor's degree in history at Williams and he
lettered in varsity ice hockey, serving as a team captain for the
Ephs as a senior.
Flood and his wife, Jane, reside in Ridgewood, N.J., with their
two children, Eliza and Sam, Jr.
