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."
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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."
Real Sports revisits backcountry skiing after deadliest avalanche season since 2009-10, speaking to avalanche survivor Kyle Johnston
"I was just in a river of moving snow. The whole hillside was sliding past me. It was just big chunks of snow, and it was moving really fast."
Adam Silver apologizes for 2019 “lessons learned” comment about Masai Ujiri and sheriff’s deputy: “I should have known better”
"I apologize to Masai for what I said in that interview…. Believe me, when I look at that now, I cringe when I watch it."
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."
“People are dying. When are we going to stop it?” HBO’s Real Sports takes a hard look at MMA weight cutting
"I just am physically killing myself, literally killing myself trying to get to get to this weight. ...It's harder than a fight. Fighting's kind of fun; I fucking hate weight cutting."
HBO’s “Risky Business” Real Sports segment on extreme cameramen is an interesting look at a dangerous profession
This segment looks at cameramen who record feats in climbing, surfing, skiing and other extreme sports, and the risks they take.
