That’s a wrap: Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ air their last episode after 29 years

For the last few years of its life, HBO's “Real Sports” taped its episodes on the same Manhattan block where CBS' “60 Minutes” resides. Sports was a lens through which the magazine looked at all manner of issues, winning awards for pieces on corruption at the International Olympic Committee, labor abuses as Qatar prepared for the World Cup, concussions in sports and children forced to be jockeys for camel races in the Middle East. “Real Sports” told some inspirational stories, like Mary Carillo's profile of the Hoyts, a father who ran marathons pushing the wheelchair of his cerebral palsy-afflicted son, and flashed humor.