Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Season 25
Season 25 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Season 24.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 25 Progress Shield
Episode 262
Jan 29, 2019 · 60 min
Bernard Goldberg explores football’s shifting demographics in towns across America, Jon Frankel profiles ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter, and Soledad O’Brien speaks with the creator
Episode 263
Feb 26, 2019 · 60 min
Colin O'Brady and Louis Rudd discuss their arduous 900-plus-mile race across Antarctica; eating disorders among male athletes; an annual ice fishing event in Minnesota attracts nea
Episode 264
Mar 26, 2019 · 60 min
Jon Frankel covers the Super Bowl of skiing. Also, Real Sports profiles Michael Rubin as the mogul attempts to reform the justice system, sits down with new University of Miami hea
Episode 265
Apr 23, 2019 · 60 min
Examining the deal Michigan officials made to help build Detroit's new arena despite facing an $18 billion bankruptcy; extreme sports cameramen; Cambridge vs. Oxford wine-tasting c
Episode 266
May 21, 2019 · 60 min
Bernard Goldberg takes a close look at the astonishing amount of deaths U.S. racehorses experiencing while on the race track, Jon Frankel examines Norway’s youth sporting culture,
Episode 267
Jun 25, 2019 · 60 min
Real Sports explores the fast growing and controversial sports media brand Barstool Sports, profiles basketball Hall-of-famer Don Nelson, and tells the remarkable story of a surfer
Episode 268
Jul 30, 2019 · 60 min
Real Sports explores video game addiction as a growing public health crisis; New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling’s unwavering commitment to his craft; and the rapper Ice Cub
Episode 269
Aug 21, 2019 · 60 min
Real Sports dives into the disproportionate number of high school football players who have died from heat stroke since 1990; Justin Tucker’s musical talent that helps him on the f
Episode 270
Sep 24, 2019 · 60 min
Richie Incognito discusses his turbulent past; Sonny Bill Williams shows David Scott how a national sport is helping New Zealand cope after the Christchurch shooting; and Jon Frank
Episode 271
Oct 23, 2019 · 60 min
David Scott travels with Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri as he returns home to Nigeria with the NBA Championship trophy; Jon Frankel profiles a pet rescue and advocacy organi
Episode 272
Nov 27, 2019 · 60 min
Jon Frankel explores the rise of overuse injuries in youth sports; Bryant Gumbel sits down with recently exonerated Huwe Burton, who ran this month’s NYC marathon; Andrea Kremer ta
Episode 273 - 2019 Year In Review
Dec 19, 2019 · 60 min
Bryant Gumbel hosts a round table discussion with the Real Sports correspondents to reflect on the most memorable sports stories of 2019.