By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Check out the Numlock Awards newsletter. Emmy The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which is the organization behind the Emmy awards for television, uncovered a scheme at ESPN where fake people were made up and added to lists of nominees so that the fake names would get Emmy awards that could be stripped, reengraved and given to on-air television personalities that were ineligible for the prizes. From 2008 to 2018, ESPN College GameDay won eight Emmys for outstanding weekly show, awards that go to the production team of the program. Hosts and on-air talent are not eligible, as their category is different and relies on individual features. To get the studio hosts some hardware, ESPN was found to make up fake behind-the-scenes employees like Kirk Henry, Lee Clark, Dirk Howard and Tim Richard to get Emmy statues that could be later engraved for the otherwise ineligible Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and Tom Rinaldi, among others. According to NATAS,
Whenever I see any reference to Phuket, my mind sadly goes back to the 2004 Tsunami and the devastation in Phuket after it.