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Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster.He was best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today.His older brother was sportscaster Greg Gumbel. [1]
The first, on Friday, June 3, 1994, featured Bryant Gumbel in Normandy, with Katie Couric anchoring in New York. The second took place on D-Day itself, Monday, June 6. Gumbel and Couric anchored five hours of coverage from Omaha Beach, and were joined for most of the day by Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.
In 1967, Gumbel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Loras College in 1967, [5] [6] where he also played on the baseball team. [7] He had two sisters, Renee Gumbel-Farrahi and Rhonda Gumbel-Thomas, and a younger brother, Bryant Gumbel, who also pursued a network television broadcasting career. [8] [9]
Gumbel has decided to sign off his award-winning program that provided hard-hitting coverage of sports not often seen elsewhere on TV. HBO is ending 'Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel' after 29 years ...
The final, 90-minute episode of “Real Sports” premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern. NEW YORK (AP) — For the last […] The post That’s a wrap: Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s ‘Real Sports ...
The show won 37 Sports Emmy's during its run.
In February 2006, Gumbel made remarks regarding the Winter Olympics and the lack of African-American participation. [9]So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.
“Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” is coming to an end at HBO. The sports talk series has been a part of the premium cabler’s lineup for 29 years. Gumbel first launched the series in 1995 and ...