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

Bryant Gumbel's “Real Sports” airs its final episode on HBO after 29 years this week, and an era in sports journalism ends with it. The newsmagazine used sports as a lens to look through all manners of social issues, and won awards for stories on concussions, camel jockeys and labor abuses in Qatar. For its last few years of operation, it taped episodes on the same Manhattan block that houses the offices of CBS' “60 Minutes,” with which it shares a sensibility. At age 75, Gumbel takes pride in never having missed a taping and, like many athletes, he said he'd rather leave the field too early than too late.