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."
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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."
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.
Bryant Gumbel’s interview with Derek Jeter got a bit heated when Gumbel asked about tanking
An exasperated Jeter called Gumbel "mentally weak."
David Stern on “idiot” Bryant Gumbel: “I have done more for people of color than he has”
"My reaction was that Bryant Gumbel is an idiot and that I considered it a badge of honor."
Prince impersonated Bryant Gumbel on his final Today show
After Prince’s passing at the age of 57 Thursday, the sports and entertainment worlds have been busy paying...
