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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Real Sports’ feature on Flames’ AGM Chris Snow and ALS is thoughtful, devastating, and worth your time
"Gratitude is that I can still sort of talk. That's just what you do. Next day, next step, do what's next."
Real Sports dives into Brett Favre Mississippi scandal: ‘I don’t see how you don’t know that that money is welfare dollars.’
"They thought of this as a slush fund that no one was watching at all."
Real Sports’ ‘modern-day slavery’ update on Qatar migrant workers is worth watching, and a sharp contrast to Fox
"When you're watching that World Cup in Qatar, just imagine how many men are buried in those grounds."
Real Sports features former Marine Kirstie Ennis on quest to climb Seven Summits after leg amputation
" 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.'"
Former WADA No. 2 Rob Koehler tells Real Sports he was told to ‘back off’ on calls to disqualify Russian athletes
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.
Real Sports’ ‘Rocket Men’ shows off how far jetpacks have come since ‘Thunderball’ and the 1984 Olympics
"To me, it was that it worked. It wasn't just chaos and science fiction."
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren talks expansion, player pay, and more on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
"I could see perpetual and future growth."
Ariel Helwani talks “surreal” return to Real Sports 19 years after internship: “They were the first ones to give me any kind of...
"If you would have told that kid all these years later, 19 years later, that I would return as a correspondent..."
Real Sports covers Chris Evert’s battle with cancer, and her inspiration from her sister: “I know she would want me to survive.”
"I was so lucky, I was so lucky."
Real Sports’ Deshaun Watson piece includes graphic accounts from accusers
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.
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."
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."
