Deshaun Watson’s lawyer Rusty Hardin is taking preemptive shots at Real Sports’ coverage of Watson
"I believe they’ll air the accusations of the women without attempting to look behind it to see what kind of merit do they have."
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Real Sports’ senior coordinating producer Nick Dolin talks the series’ 300th episode: “The idea was always a good story well told.”
"There's just an endless number of stories to tell."
Sen. Bernie Sanders tells Bryant Gumbel about his bill challenging MLB “oligarchs” and their “unacceptable” antitrust exemption
"I think there is a growing anger amongst the American people at baseball. I think, you know, the temperature is rising here in Congress to do something about it."
Jalen Rose talks to Real Sports’ Mary Carillo on his tuition-free Detroit charter school: “How can I try to be a part of...
"Revisit this in like 10 years. It's going to be young people that are achieving their goals and aspiring to do great things and there are going to be adults that are helping that happen. And I have total faith in this city."
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."
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament talks to Real Sports’ Mary Carillo on building remote Montana skate parks to battle suicide rates
"I grew up here; I'm trying to bring that thing I've witnessed in my travels back to these kinds of places."
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."
Mark Davis’ Real Sports interview includes him discussing his haircut, and his barber: “It’s not her fault! It’s me!”
"I just blow-dry it, and it just winds up pretty much hanging like this. I don't really have to comb it."
Real Sports looks at Rener Gracie training police in Brazilian jiu jitsu
"If you scuffled, resisted arrest, you were 200 percent more likely be to injured by a non-jiu jitsu officer than somebody that had been through the mandatory program or was a practitioner of jiu jitsu."
Al Harrington and Matt Barnes speak to Real Sports on using their platforms to boost Black ownership of cannabis businesses
"It's not only the people who are in jail, but it's also all the people in the community who were affected as well. Our people really just deserve the opportunity to participate."
Mary Carillo’s Real Sports segment on skateboarder Alexis Sablone is a tremendous piece of Olympic storytelling
"By competing in the Olympics, are there going to be fellow street skateboarders who think, 'Ah, she's sold out?'" "Probably. When I was 10 years old, I probably would have thought that about myself."
HBO’s Real Sports, Andrea Kremer profile female sports reporters recently sexually harassed, abused
"There's the issues of behaviors, there's the issues of attitudes, there's still the issue of their treatment."
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."
