Democratic Hopeful Talks Basketball On ‘Real Sports’
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 4/2/2008 12:52:00 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) will talk hoops on the upcoming edition of Home Box Office's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
In the Emmy award-winning show’s 133rd edition, Obama, in a segment called for “The Love of the Game” discusses how basketball helped shape his identity. During his interview with Gumbel talks about childhood, his high-school years on the Punahou School basketball team in Honolulu, and the pickup games he’s played since then, as important connections to his life today.
The program bows April 15 on HBO at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
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