Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

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Get the story beyond the scores with HBO's Emmy(R)-winning sports magazine. Each monthly edition is packed with powerful features, compelling profiles and insider interviews with the biggest names in sports. Hosted by Bryant Gumbel and featuring a heralded team of correspondents, "Real Sports" gets you closest to the hottest stories in the business.

Starring: Bryant Gumbel, Mary Carillo, Soledad O'Brien, Bernard Goldberg, Bruce Maxwell, Eddy Alvarez, Nnamdi Asomugha, Zack Hample

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HBO's Emmy(R)-winning sports magazine brings you the stories in sports that can't be found anywhere else!

10. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (October 2019)

Segments: Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri; dogs from Michael Vick’s bust a...

11. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (November 2019)

Segments: Huwe Burton and his dream of running the NYC marathon; overuse injurie...

12. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (December 2019)

Bryant Gumbel and his team of correspondents gather for their annual roundtable ...

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (January 2020)

Segments: How Japan is using the Olympic stage to stretch the truth about the nuclear cleanup of Fukushima.; FOX reporter Erin Andrews details some of the many challenges she’s faced throughout her career; In the wake of Kobe Bryant's death in a helicopter crash, Real Sports looks back at the two times he was profiled on the show.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (February 2020)

Segments: Months after boxer Patrick Day’s death, Jon Frankel sits down with his trainer and brothers who are still grappling with the tragedy; Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer uses advanced science to revolutionize baseball; Elite mountain climbing is claiming an alarming number of lives due to escalating risks taken in the pursuit of glory.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (April 2020)

Segments: the role sports leagues and organizations played in the spread of COVID-19 across America; the efforts of sports organizations, companies and leagues in fighting the pandemic; a roundtable discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on sports with Bryant Gumbel, Jim Nantz, Joe Buck and Mike Breen; a look back at a 2004 segment on the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (May 2020)

Segments: Some of America’s major sports leagues and teams have continued looking out for themselves; how the Korean Baseball Organization has introduced the world to fanless sports; roundtable with union chiefs DeMaurice Smith (NFL), Michele Roberts (NBA), and Tony Clark (MLB); how Kansas City Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has moved from the O-line to the front line.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (June 2020)

In this special edition, Bryant Gumbel examines how COVID-19 and systemic racial injustice have created an unprecedented moment in sports. Interviews include: Killer Mike, Doc Rivers, Bubba Wallace, Hank Aaron, Steve Kerr, Stephen Jackson, P.K. Subban, Candace Parker, Billie Jean King, and more. Plus, a look back at the 2008 police shooting of Robbie Tolan in Bellaire, TX.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (July 2020)

Segments: Bryant Gumbel talks sports with Peter King, David Aldridge and Tom Verducci; a look at the health risks facing student-athletes as college football returns; Superior Court Judge Craig Mitchell's Skid Row Running Club to help a distressed L.A. neighborhood; an update on 'mental athletes'--kids who have turned brain games into competitive sports.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (August 2020)

Former A's catcher Bruce Maxwell details the harsh price he paid when he became the first MLB player to kneel during the national anthem; former NFL star cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha has now made a name for himself as an actor and producer; speedskating Olympian Eddy Alvarez is achieving his life-long goal of playing baseball; obsessive baseball fan Zack Hample heads to Fenway.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (September 2020)

Segments: David Scott looks at the dangerous practice of cutting weight among MMA fighters trying to gain an edge in the day before a fight; former NFL long snapper and America's Got Talent contestant Jon Dorenbos talks about confronting the man who killed his mother: his father; how the explosion of youth sports participation trophies may be doing more harm than good.