Bryant Gumbel Archives - Awful Announcing

Shaquille O’Neal admits he was initially ‘terrible’ on ‘Inside the NBA’: ‘I wanted to be Bryant Gumbel’

"I was nervous and I was terrible because I wanted to be Bryant Gumbel"

Katie Couric slams Bryant Gumbel’s ‘sexist attitude’ as co-anchors

"He was prickly but I mean, what a talent."

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel signing off. (WBD.)

HBO

‘Our buck stops here’: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel signs off in memorable final show illustrating impact

Stephen A. Smith offers touching tribute to Bryant Gumbel: ‘You are the standard.’

"We'll never measure up, but because of you, we will always strive to do so."

Bryant Gumbel on hosting HBO’s Real Sports: ‘I’ve kind of lived my fantasy life’

"If you had told me when I was in high school in Chicago, what I would do with my life, I would've said, I'll sign up for that in a heartbeat."

Suzy Shuster (L) and Amy Trask on “What The Football.” (The Rich Eisen Show on YouTube.)

NFL

Suzy Shuster talks ‘What The Football,’ Amy Trask, Real Sports, and ‘overlooked and underestimated’ female sports fans

A graphic showing some of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’s memorable stories.

HBO

Looking back at 15 memorable Real Sports segments

Victor Vescovo tells Bryant Gumbel of submersible community’s concerns over OceanGate and Stockton Rush’s ‘reckless risks’

"I think, unfortunately, he'll be remembered as someone who became so enthralled by his own thoughts of what the industry needed that he took on reckless risks, and took people with him on his experimental dives that had no business being in that submersible, including a 19-year-old young boy."

Bryant Gumbel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Sports Emmys

"After 50 years in the business, sharing the same honor with men like Jim McKay, Howard Cosell and Vin Scully is heady stuff indeed."

Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren talks expansion, player pay, and more on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

"I could see perpetual and future growth."

Antonio Brown calls Bruce Arians’ comments a “flat-out lie,” threatens defamation lawsuit, says Bucs offered him $200k

"Yeah, these guys at Tampa Bay Bucs tried to make an agreement with me to give me $200,000 to go to the crazy house so these guys could look like they know what they're talking about."

DeMaurice Smith to Bryant Gumbel on Jon Gruden emails: “It’s equally abhorrent to me to see a group of people defend it.”

"It's equally abhorrent to me to see a group of people defend it, knowing that they live in this legacy of America's past. They live in this hope of America's future. We can't be truly hopeful when those people continue to excuse or apologize for something."

Tommie Smith, who raised his gloved first in 1968, calls the Olympics’ continued anti-protest rules “very archaic” on Real Sports

"It is archaic. Very archiac. I think this is why the younger generation is rising up."

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How Bernard Goldberg’s dissenting conservative politics led to his exit from HBO’s Real Sports

Real Sports examines Negro Leagues statistics: “It’s kind of like digging for gold.”

"All I’m asking for is fairness, an open mind and an open heart, to accept what is obvious, that black ballplayers were equal. Not because of their skin, but because of their talent. And we can prove that quantitatively."

“We must figure this out together, or perish together”: Real Sports’ 35-person “Racial Injustice and COVID-19 in America” hits hard

"Let's make sure we maintain this momentum so it's not a moment, it's a movement. Once you see those issues, you can't unsee them."

John Sterling tells Real Sports he does schtick, adds “The world doesn’t feed its hungry by how I make a call, and I’m...

Sterling knows there are critics out there, but he's not about to change how he does things.

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