Yes he will

I kept waiting for an open thread to post this video of Bryant Gumbel interviewing Barack Obama about basketball.  I waited & waited & finally decided that the fourteen minute video, The Audacity of Hoops which recently aired on HBO's Real Sports is wonderful enough to merit a diary.  

Enjoy!

OK, this is driving me nuts as I watch the Giants/Redskins game.  It's not a huge deal as we move towards 3000 American soldiers having died in Iraq, the  Democrats taking over the House and Senate, etc., etc., etc.

But can Bryant Gumbel stop saying that the Giants are turning the ball over on downs when they punt it?  Turning it over on downs means that you tried to get a first down and failed, but Gumbel doesn't seem to get that.

Really, if you are going to be a major play-by-play guy for the second most popular sport in the country you should know the basics.  I feel bad for Chris Colinsworth.

Update: He just said it AGAIN with just two and a half minutes left to play when the Giants punted the ball.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has always been one of the best "news" shows on TV. If you have never watched it, or if you think it is only about sports, do yourself a favor and start watching it.  Real Sports may have "sports" as a starting piont but the stories concern all of us and are about people not so much the sports they play. Real Sports is what 60 minutes was.

Now that I pimped this great show, on to why I am writing this diary. Simply stated, last night Real Sports reported on the clean air act and the bush administration's dismantling of it BETTER than I have seen any show on any network report on it.

 

It can be tough to be a liberal sports fan. The latest example of conservative posturing in the sports world centers on certain "controversial" remarks about the Winter Olympics by Bryant Gumbel on his talk show Real Sports. Actually, just one sentence was controversial--see if you can spot it:

I wrote about the Bryant Gumbel comments saying the Olympics are almost all white - like the GOP convention - yesterday

I was going to write about it when I first heard the remarks, but something blasted it out of my mind as if by a shotgun... oh yeah, it was the whole Cheney-shooting-a-man thing.  But back to Bryant Gumbel.

Now, it's become a big story.  I just heard Dan Patrick talking about it on his show. Rush Limbaugh weighed in - and basically went off on a rant that had little to to with what Gumbel said.  Instead, Limbaugh accused Gumbel of being a communist.  For those of you scoring at home, that means that, according to Limbaugh, Gumbel = communist.