In related news, Bryant Gumble is still on TV. Who knew?

Via Rolling Stone:

With 26 Emmys, a Peabody Award and a team of journalists unparalleled in its field, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is arguably the most important sports program on television. In an era where allegiances to leagues and access to stars are currency, Real Sports stands alone – mostly because its host has never been one to play nice.

Known for always asking the tough questions during his 15-year run as host of the Today show, Bryant Gumbel created Real Sports as a place to get his sports fix. But he had no interest in buddying up to celebrities; rather, he wanted a show that dug deeper than others would. As a result, Real Sports has been heralded for its investigative reporting on wide-ranging topics that – just in this past season alone – included match fixing in soccer, the marketing of gun sports to children and the link between concussions and domestic violence in the NFL. […]

RS: A story you personally took on last season, about the “Eat What You Kill” movement, would you have done that five, ten years ago?

BG: There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they’re pigs. I think they don’t care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape. So we got that on the record. That said, I’m willing to separate that this story had nothing to do with that. It’s not a gun story. So I would like to think that I would have done it, but I don’t know. Obviously, that was my first experience around killing and guns and hunting.