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."
"After 50 years in the business, sharing the same honor with men like Jim McKay, Howard Cosell and Vin Scully is heady stuff indeed."
"Gratitude is that I can still sort of talk. That's just what you do. Next day, next step, do what's next."
"They thought of this as a slush fund that no one was watching at all."
"When you're watching that World Cup in Qatar, just imagine how many men are buried in those grounds."
" 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.'"
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.
"To me, it was that it worked. It wasn't just chaos and science fiction."
"I could see perpetual and future growth."
"If you would have told that kid all these years later, 19 years later, that I would return as a correspondent..."
"I was so lucky, I was so lucky."
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.
"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."
"There's just an endless number of stories to tell."