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The Next REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL on 08.20.13

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REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL is going strong. The show’s 197th installment airs on Tuesday, 8.20 with four new segments beginning at 9:00pm ET. Here is background information straight from an HBO Press Release on each of them.

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Felix Baumgartner

It Gives You Wings – produced by Jordan Kronick. Despite increasing competition in the energy drink market, Red Bull continues to dominate with sales exceeding 5.2 billion cans per year. Unlike most industry leaders, the company has largely avoided traditional advertising, focusing its marketing initiatives almost exclusively on sponsoring extreme athletes. Last October, capping a campaign seven years and millions of dollars in the making, Austria’s Felix Baumgartner successfully committed a free fall jump of 24 miles from the edge of the stratosphere in a marketing bonanza that remains the most heavily streamed event in YouTube history, having garnered more than eight million viewers. And Baumgartner is just one of more than 500 athletes, mostly from extreme sports such as snowboarding and skateboarding, who have helped create a brand identity most companies can only admire. Correspondent Jon Frankel examines how Red Bull’s unique marketing strategy has helped drive extreme sports from fringe appeal to mainstream notoriety.

 

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Jake “the Snake” Roberts back in the day.

DDP – produced by Maggie Burbank. Few athletes have a tougher life after sports than professional wrestlers. The fast lifestyle that accompanies year-round entertaining across the country can take its toll on bodies and minds, resulting in a disproportionate amount of former wrestlers becoming drug dependent and struggling with mental-health issues. In stark contrast to the sport’s high-flying, muscle bound theatrics, yoga is now helping rehabilitate some stars of yesteryear. Diamond Dallas Page, famous for his success in the WCW and WWF, created DDP Yoga after finding that yoga helped ease not only his physical ailments but also his depression, and has striven to help others from his era, most notably Scott “Razor Ramon” Hall and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Correspondent Frank Deford sits down with the wrestlers to discuss how yoga has helped their lives in a way they never thought possible.

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Andy Roddick

Andy Roddick – produced by Nick Dolin.  Andy Roddick, now 30, retired from tennis in Aug. 2012 after a fourth-round exit at the U.S. Open, where he captured his lone Grand Slam title in 2003. Retirement has changed not only Roddick’s life, but also the face of American tennis. For the first time since 1973, when rankings began, there are currently no Americans in the Top 20 singles rankings for the male ATP World Tour. This makes the Nebraska native the last great American champ in a group that includes John McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. Meanwhile, the outspoken Roddick has found a niche in broadcasting, recently signing on to co-host “Fox Sports Live” on the newly established Fox Sports 1network. In this REAL SPORTS/Sports Illustrated collaboration, Roddick sits down with correspondent Mary Carillo on the eve of the 2013 U.S. Open to talk about his post-tennis endeavors and the state of the game they both love.

 

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The site of Trump’s Scotland course.

Trump produced by Tim Walker & Beret Remak. Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy. In 2008, the high-flying New York tycoon embarked on a mission to build one of the greatest luxury golf resorts in the world – along with hundreds of homes and condos, plus a hotel and conference center –near the city of Aberdeen on the historic northeast coast of Scotland. The project sparked serious opposition from locals who felt the venture would spoil their pristine coastline, but he broke ground in 2010 and opened Trump International Golf Links in July 2012. Now Trump has a new fight on his hands, this time with the Scottish government, which plans to erect 600-foot wind turbines off the coast of his golf course in pursuit of clean energy, threatening the view of the North Sea from his newly minted resort. REAL SPORTS correspondent Bernard Goldberg reconnects with Trump and travels back to Scotland to see how others are reacting to the newest development in this ongoing saga.

 

Other HBO airdates include 08.20 at 3:10am; 08.22 at 8:00am & 5:15pm; 08.25 at 9:00am; 08.28 at 1:00pm & 10:00pm; 09.03 at 7:00pm & 2:55am and on 09.07 at 10:30am & 12:30am. It can also is on HBO2’s schedule and will show up on HBOGo as well.

 

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Rich October 9, 2013 - 12:38 pm

I wanted to notify Real Sports about a story that may be interesting. I am a sports artist living in Birmingham, AL. Things for May have not always been easy. At 17 I drowned and was resuscitated. At 20 years of age I had a heart condition. The Dr’s gave me a 50/50 chance of surviving. My ex wife needed a heart transplant, so I closed my art gallery of 10 years in the French Quarter. She survived and we were divorced. I remarried in 2004 and lost everything I had (which was not much after the ex wife’s medical bills) to Katrina in 2005. I moved back to I Alabama and became a licensed artist for university’s of Alabama and Auburn. I suffered a heart attack and had a quadruple bypass surgery in 2007. In addition, I have had 7 back surgeries.

I now have grown to be licensed for over 30 Universities. In addition am in the following

The Bear Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, Al
The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in Birmingham, AL
The College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, IL
The NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, OH

At 53, I have renewed a career that appears to be something similar to Leroy Neiman!

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Email is rrgallery@aol.com
Phone is 205 902 5342

I am humbled by my life, and cannot wait to see what is next!

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