Newy Scruggs

NBC 5 Sports Director

Updated 10:52 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009

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Newy Scruggs has been in broadcasting since 1992. Prior to Dallas/Fort Worth, he has worked in Florence/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Austin, Texas, Cleveland, and Los Angeles.
From anchoring TV sportscasts, to hosting talk shows, to color commentating on college football and basketball games, and writing for print media, Scruggs has put his hands on it and found success.

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Scruggs is known as the Newdawg. The gloss of the name came from his Omega Psi Phi Fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The Newdawg has been working in the Dallas-Fort Worth market since April 16, 2000.

He is currently the weeknight sports anchor at KXAS (NBC 5). You can catch him at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

In the fall, Scruggs hosts the football show, "Out of Bounds" with former Cowboys legend, Drew Pearson, on Sunday Nights.

Every Saturday you can see his weekly Page 2 column in the Star-Telegram, one of the best newspaper sports sections in the country.

Scruggs has been named "Favorite Sportscaster" by the Forth Worth Weekly from 2001 to 2005.

The sportscasting career of the Newdawg began in September of 1992 in Florence, South Carolina.

While in his senior year at UNC-Pembroke, Newdawg was a Friday night high school football photographer for WBTW-TV. After the weekend sports anchor was fired, he got the job.
He stayed at the CBS affiliate until graduating college in the summer of 1993. That June, Scruggs went to work at KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas. It was familiar ground, he lived outside the city in the late seventies at Fort Hood.

As a sports reporter for KVUE-TV, Scruggs was able to cover the Dallas Cowboys during their Super Bowl years under Jimmy Johnson and into Barry Switzer's first season.

Also during that Texas swing, the Newdawg created a radio show still in existence in Austin. "The Pressbox" with Newy Scruggs and Vic Lombardi helped turn KVET-AM from a news talk station to Central Texas' top all sports radio station.

In December of 1994, it was off to Cleveland. WEWS-TV was the station. As a weekend sports anchor, the Newdawg hosted Cleveland's top rated weekend sports show, "Sports Sunday."

While the stay in C-Town was only 14 months, the Newdawg saw more sports news go down than most folks who lived in Northeast Ohio for 30 years. The Indians went to their 1st World Series since 1954. Vinny Testaverde actually won a playoff game against Bill Parcells New England Patriots. And the Art Modell moved the Browns to Baltimore.

In January of 1997, Newdawg launched his Sunday night sports show, "Talking About Sports, with Newy Scruggs!" on KCOP TV where he was the Sports Director. It was the only local weekly sports show that took phone calls from viewers.

He was the 1998 and 1999 Associated Press "Best Sportscast" winner and KCOP's, UPN News at 10 PM, won "Best Newscast" in 1999.

After numerous stints filling in as a guest host on "The Jim Rome Show," XTRA Sports 1150 offered him the afternoon drive time spot. He co-hosted the sportsradio show, "The Dawgpound" until 2000.
Scruggs left Los Angeles for Big D in April of 2000.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1994. He established the Newy Scruggs Sports Broadcasting Scholarship in 2003 for students who want to break into the sports media.

Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, the Newdawg is an army kid. From Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, to Fort Hood, Texas to Birmingham, Alabama he’s lived all over growing up.
Scruggs is married with two children.