HBO Sports has acquired North American television and streaming rights to the documentary feature film THE WEIGHT OF GOLD, a revealing and powerful documentary exploring the mental health challenges that Olympic athletes often face in deeply personal detail. The film debuts on HBO, at the same time as the 2020 Summer Games with 11,000 world […]
Watch Lil Nas X and Elmo perform“Elmo’s Song”on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo,streaming now on HBO Max!
PHEM X ALISON WONDERLAND DROP TIGER KING-INSPIRED NEW SINGLE “W.W.C.B.D.” LISTEN HERE Following widespread acclaim from Atwood Magazine and RunTheTrap as well as 20 million-plus streams and counting, alternative pop sorceress phem and Australian superstar Alison Wonderland pose a question that has been on everybody’s mind as of late with their new single “W.W.C.B.D.”–i.e. “wut […]
ALL-NEW EPISODE OF REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL PREMIERES TUESDAY, FEB. 25 AT 10 P.M. ET ——– Segments Include A Peek Into The World Of Extreme Mountain Climbing; A Profile On Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Trevor Bauer; And A Look At The Tragic Death Of Boxer Patrick Day ——– REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL, which will […]
HBO Sports’ groundbreaking 24/7 documentary-reality franchise, which has captured 18 Sports Emmy® Awards, will turn its spotlight on professional surfing when 24/7: KELLY SLATER debuts TUESDAY, DEC. 3 (9:00 -10:00 p.m. ET/PT). The all-access, behind-the-scenes special will chronicle the most famous and prolific surfer of all time, 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, in the weeks leading up to the […]
returns TUESDAY, NOV. 26 at a special time (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) exclusively on HBO Excerpts from the Real Sports segment “Sidelined” HERE. Emily Gervais of Weymouth Mass., is part of a trend -– kids pushing themselves harder and harder in the hyper competitive world of youth sports – picking a single sport at a very young […]
By Vaughn Lowery At the ripe age of 10, Paul Basagoitia has been one of the top mountain bikers in the world. Fast forward a decade or so later, he became one of the first MTB athletes to complete a backflip on natural terrain. Nevertheless, on October 16, 2015, during a run at the Red […]
The feature-length presentation marks the first-ever partnership between HBO Sports and Red Bull Films, telling a story that begins on October 16, 2015, the date of Basagoitia’s traumatic injury, and unfolding in real time through raw, intimate footage — much filmed by Paul himself — of the agonies of an unpredictable journey and uncertain future. Directed […]
Real Sports probes the dangers of heat strokes in high school football. Little has been reported on the large number of high school football players that have died from heat stroke. Since 1995, the easily treated condition has claimed nearly 50 lives nationwide. Soledad O’Brien probes the grave threat facing high school football players and […]
First Look: The Daredevil Cameramen of Extreme Sports (Click to Watch) *Risky Business. Whether scaling a treacherous mountain or going into the belly of the world’s most challenging wave, extreme sports cameramen exhibit remarkable athleticism in pursuit of the perfect shot. Jon Frankel profiles these Evel Knievel-like risk-takers, who display the same bravery as the […]
