NBC 5 Sports Director Newy Scruggs is a multiple Emmy Award-winning sportscaster.
NBC 5 Sports Director Newy Scruggs has been in broadcasting since 1992. Along the way, the stops have included gigs in Florence/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Cleveland, Los Angeles and since April 2000 at NBC 5 in Dallas-Fort Worth.
From anchoring TV sportscasts, to hosting his own nationally syndicated talk show for NBC Sports radio, from co-hosting podcasts, to color commentating on college football and basketball games, and writing for print media, Scruggs has put his hands on it and found success. He is also the author of several books.
You can catch Newy weeknights at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. In the fall, he hosts the Emmy Award-winning show Big Game Sunday after NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
Scruggs is known as ‘NewDawg.’ The name came from his Omega Psi Phi Fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He was named the fraternity’s 1992 National Leadership Award winner.
Thankful for the many opportunities and awards he received, Scruggs created the Dr. Sylvester Wooten Omega Psi Phi Scholarship for fellow Chi Mu chapter members in 2007. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1994 and served two terms on the UNCP board of trustees. The Newy Scruggs Sports Broadcasting Scholarship was established in 2003 for students pursuing careers in sports media. He invested in DFW higher education by endowing the Newy Scruggs Scholarship for Student Enrichment Opportunities at UT-Arlington.
In 2025, Scruggs was inducted into the Lone Star Chapter’s Sports Emmy Silver Circle.
He has won 15 Lone Star Emmy awards and a NABJ Salute to Excellence Award for his documentary Forgotten Brilliance: Rube Foster’s Baseball Empire. He’s also been a winner of several Texas Broadcast News Awards and has won Best Sportscast by the Associated Press in California.
Scruggs received his MBA from the TCU Neeley School of Business in 2023.
Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, the ‘NewDawg’ is an Army kid. He has three daughters.
