REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL Returns to HBO November 20th

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL, TV's most-honored sports journalism series, with a record 18 Sports Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Sports Journalism, returns for more enterprising features and reporting when the show's 260th edition debuts TUESDAY, NOV. 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

The show is also available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners' streaming platforms.

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Segments include:

(Correspondent David Scott with a Russian General.)

*War Games. REAL SPORTS correspondent David Scott takes viewers inside Russia's "military olympics," where modern combat becomes an international competitive sport. This year marked the country's fifth International Army Games, which hosted 32 mostly anti-western countries, competing for gold medals with tanks, surface-to-air missiles and state-of-the-art jet fighters. But it's not all fun and war games, because the competitors are also customers - who spend BILLIONS on Russian weapons.

Producer: David Scott.

*The Play Gap. In 2017, REAL SPORTS examined the booming $10 billion youth travel sports industry, with cities building modern facilities and families spending big bucks so that their kids could play. A year later, correspondent Jon Frankel finds the industry has boomed again, with more facilities being built and parents now fueling the youth sports marketplace to the tune of an estimated $17 billion. But there's a problem: The price of sports has gone so high that millions of American kids are being left behind. REAL SPORTS discovers that the widening gap between haves and have-nots is leading to an alarming decline in youth sports participation and troubling health concerns.

Producer: Nick Dolin.

*Flight Club. In mountainous Draper, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City, dozens of thrill-seekers take to the air daily to paraglide with colorful parachutes. As correspondent Jon Frankel discovers, these adventurers are defying the odds in breathtaking fashion. He meets Chris Santacroce, founder of Project Airtime, which is designed to get people with brain and spinal cord injuries out of their chairs and reaching new, previously unattainable, heights through an innovative paragliding program.

Producer: Beret Remak.

(Warriors COO and president Rick Welts with correspondent Soledad O'Brien.)

*Game Changer. In 2011, Golden State Warriors COO and president Rick Welts, then at the helm of the Phoenix Suns front office, became the first openly gay executive in the NBA. Starting as a teenage ball boy, he eventually became media director for the Seattle Supersonics, followed by a 17-year stint in the NBA's league office. There, he conceived and developed All-Star Weekend and the marketing campaign for the legendary 1992 Olympic "Dream Team," both of which elevated the NBA to new heights.

For decades, Welts, 65, navigated the often macho and homophobic sports world by keeping his sexuality private. These days, he doesn't have to hide. REAL SPORTS correspondent Soledad O'Brien first met Welts and his partner, Todd Gage, in 2016. Since then, the Warriors have captured back-to-back NBA Championships, while Welts was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September.

Producer: Maggie Burbank.

On May 8, the 39th annual Sports Emmy® Awards honored REAL SPORTS for Outstanding Sports News Anthology, marking its fifth win in the category in six years.

On Jan. 16, the duPont-Columbia University awards committee for excellence in broadcast journalism honored REAL SPORTS. The show has now received four duPont Awards for broadcast excellence since 2006, more than any other sports journalism program.

The executive producers of REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL are Peter Nelson, Rick Bernstein and Joe Perskie.