Bryant Gumbel News

Bryant Gumbel calls NBA commissioner 'plantation overseer'

By theGrio

8:30 AM on 10/19/2011

NEW YORK - Bryant Gumbel invoked race in a televised editorial on the NBA's strained labor talks, likening league Commissioner David Stern to a 'plantation overseer'...
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Burress: Jury saw me as black man with a gun (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

2:55 PM on 08/16/2011

VIDEO - Embattled football star Plaxico Burress opens about his time in prison in an interview with Bryant Gumbel on HBO's 'Real Sports'...
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Report: Ex-Auburn players say they were paid

By theGrio

4:02 PM on 03/30/2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Four former Auburn players have said that they received thousands of dollars while being recruited by or playing for the Tigers...
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Slideshow: It happened this week in black history 1/1-1/7

By theGrio

8:48 AM on 01/07/2011

SLIDESHOW - 'The Twist' hit number one, Arsenio debuted and George Washington Carver passed away; this is an incredibly historic week by any standard...
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Bryant Gumbel reveals lung cancer surgery

By theGrio

1:00 PM on 12/08/2009

Gumbel dropped the bombshell while co-hosting "Live With Regis and Kelly" when Kelly Ripa tried to get him to dance and he told her he wasn't up to it.
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