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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."
TV and Streaming Viewing Picks for December 19, 2023: how to watch HBO Real Sports finale
Tonight is the last episode of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel on HBO marking the end of 29 seasons of the sports television magazine.
Suzy Shuster talks ‘What The Football,’ Amy Trask, Real Sports, and ‘overlooked and underestimated’ female sports fans
Jim Irsay blasts ‘Real Sports’ for airing his claim he was ‘prejudiced against’ in DUI arrest
Andrea Kremer talks Real Sports access to Jim Irsay: ‘When he said he was all in, he wasn’t kidding.’
Real Sports shows evolution of Terry Bradshaw-Howie Long Fox NFL Sunday relationship, from choking threats to ‘He can lean on me’
Looking back at 15 memorable Real Sports segments
‘Pardon the Interruption’ paid tribute to ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’ after its end was announced
"Real Sports has consistently demonstrated some of the best journalism and storytelling not just in sports TV but beyond."
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel ending after 29 seasons
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."
‘Punt God’ Matt Araiza addresses rape allegations in HBO interview: ‘You don’t need to believe me’
"Society was sure about this. They were 100-percent sure.”
Real Sports’ piece on legless MMA fighter Zion Clark is worth a look: ‘I’ve spent my entire life fighting.’
"If it wasn't for wrestling, I probably would have ended up in the streets permanently, and I probably would have died, or overdosed on drugs."
Real Sports gets a look at Drew Rosenhaus’ Jalen Carter call to Adam Schefter: ‘We’ll stay in touch on this one.’
"This is a good guy. Jalen is a good kid. We’ll stay in touch on this one. I know he is going to be one of the more compelling stories of the draft."
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."
Real Sports’ feature on Flames’ AGM Chris Snow and ALS is thoughtful, devastating, and worth your time
"Gratitude is that I can still sort of talk. That's just what you do. Next day, next step, do what's next."
Real Sports dives into Brett Favre Mississippi scandal: ‘I don’t see how you don’t know that that money is welfare dollars.’
"They thought of this as a slush fund that no one was watching at all."
Real Sports’ ‘modern-day slavery’ update on Qatar migrant workers is worth watching, and a sharp contrast to Fox
"When you're watching that World Cup in Qatar, just imagine how many men are buried in those grounds."
Real Sports features former Marine Kirstie Ennis on quest to climb Seven Summits after leg amputation
" I like being the underdog. I like being able to prove people wrong. I really like being able to give people my middle finger and say 'I told you so.'"
Former WADA No. 2 Rob Koehler tells Real Sports he was told to ‘back off’ on calls to disqualify Russian athletes
This segment is a notable look at WADA's challenges and failings overall, but the discussion of specific pressure on a WADA executive to back off from his comments about banning Russian athletes is particularly significant.
Real Sports’ ‘Rocket Men’ shows off how far jetpacks have come since ‘Thunderball’ and the 1984 Olympics
"To me, it was that it worked. It wasn't just chaos and science fiction."
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren talks expansion, player pay, and more on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
"I could see perpetual and future growth."
Ariel Helwani talks “surreal” return to Real Sports 19 years after internship: “They were the first ones to give me any kind of...
"If you would have told that kid all these years later, 19 years later, that I would return as a correspondent..."
Real Sports covers Chris Evert’s battle with cancer, and her inspiration from her sister: “I know she would want me to survive.”
"I was so lucky, I was so lucky."
Real Sports’ Deshaun Watson piece includes graphic accounts from accusers
Real Sports' Deshaun Watson piece has already been the subject of lots of talk. Excerpts viewed by AA include detailed discussions of Watson's alleged actions during massages from two of his accusers, and responses from one of Watson's attorneys.