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EXCLUSIVE: "Any quick history lesson about how owners in sports have acted over time, how they've interacted with communities and governments and public coffers and everything else will tell you that greed dictates basically whatever they try to do," Bryant Gumbel bluntly says of the motivation behind leagues like the…

Bryant Gumbel closed tonight’s edition of his HBO show Real Sports with commentary on the winners of the Florida state high school hockey championship. “Despite being seeded last, the winners this past weekend upset the top seed in the semi-final, then went on to another upset, by a score of 7-4, in the championship…

“Last week when we heard the news, time stopped. There was no war, no terrorists, no global catastrophes. The world stopped and took a deep breath and sighed,” Billy Crystal said this afternoon during the televised Muhammad Ali memorial. “It’s hard to describe how much he meant to me,” said Crystal, who got his first…

As Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel continues to mark its 20th anniversary with the help of comics, Billy Crystal wondered how to explain athletes’ bad behavior to his sports-loving grandchildren. “The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes – and it’s their…

Chris Rock debuted on HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel last night, and wondered what became of African-Americans in baseball. Rock’s the latest comedic voice tapped by HBO to close the sports show’s episodes with some take on an element of the sports industry. In February, HBO announced Bill Maher would debut this…

Bill Maher will debut a new segment on Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel in which comedy talent affiliated with HBO will close the show with some take on an element of the sports industry. Maher will close the February 24 edition of Real Sports, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary season. Running periodically for…

A few days before TMZ creator Harvey Levin came to the Winter TV Press Tour to plug his new ReelzChannel show TMZ Hollywood Sports, Bryant Gumbel came to the tour to remind reporters he has an HBO sports show. During his panel, Gumbel tipped his hat to TMZ for being first with the video of Ray Rice clocking his…

A very candid Bryant Gumbel marked his first return to TCA in 19 years Thursday criticizing a number of issues facing sports, from the media’s lack of objectivity to underpaid NCAA players. Critics in the room sprung to Gumbel’s frankness, lobbing him with questions left and right. Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel first…

The Los Angeles Clippers capped this weekend’s media reaction to racist comments allegedly made by team owner Donald Sterling by staging a silent protest before Game 4 of their play-offs run today, wearing their red warm-up shirts inside out to conceal the Clippers logo ahead of Sunday afternoon’s 118-97 loss to the…