Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Season 26
Season 26 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 25.
- 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 26 Progress Shield
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Jan 28, 2020 · 60 min
Segments: How Japan is using the Olympic stage to stretch the truth about the nuclear cleanup of Fukushima.; FOX reporter Erin Andrews details some of the many challenges she's fac
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 275
Feb 25, 2020 · 60 min
Segments: Months after boxer Patrick Day's death, Jon Frankel sits down with his trainer and brothers who are still grappling with the tragedy; Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 276
Apr 28, 2020 · 60 min
Segments: the role sports leagues and organizations played in the spread of COVID-19 across America; the efforts of sports organizations, companies and leagues in fighting the pand
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 277
May 26, 2020 · 60 min
Segments: Some of America's major sports leagues and teams have continued looking out for themselves; how the Korean Baseball Organization has introduced the world to fanless sport
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 278
Jun 23, 2020 · 60 min
Bryant Gumbel examines how COVID-19 and systemic racial injustice have created an unprecedented moment in sports; Robbie Tolan.
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 279
Jul 21, 2020 · 60 min
Virtual sports round-table; health risks facing student-athletes; Judge Craig Mitchell's Skid Row Running Club; mental athletes.
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Aug 18, 2020 · 60 min
Bruce Maxwell on being the first MLB player to kneel during the national anthem; Nnamdi Asomugha; Eddy Alvarez; Zack Hample.
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 281
Sep 22, 2020 · 60 min
David Scott explores the dangerous -- and sometimes deadly -- practice of weight-cutting in MMA. Bryant Gumbel checks in with Jon Dorenbos, an NFL player who was forced to retire e
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 282
Oct 20, 2020 · 60 min
Soledad O’Brien examines the booming business of online gaming and the teenagers who are profiting. Bryant Gumbel investigates how MLB has failed to fully integrate the Negro Leagu
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 283
Nov 24, 2020 · 60 min
David Scott explores the history and medicinal benefits behind using psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, depression, and anxiety in athletes. Bryant Gumbel goes on a deep sea adventur
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Dec 15, 2020 · 60 min
Host Bryant Gumbel and all of the correspondents gather virtually to examine how the global pandemic, social activism, and economic realities reverberated across the sports world a