Tweet

HBO’s Got Game With Obama

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 133^rd 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).

Tweet

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author

No related content found.

Also by this author

• Fox Business Network Revamps Primetime Lineup

• Bingo: HGTV Supporting 'House Hunters' Ramp-Up with Multimedia, Experential Marketing Initiatives

• MSG Ratings ‘Linning' with Knicks' New Point Guard

• YES Commemorates 10th Anniversary with Special Logo, Programming

• Fox News Tops Cable News with Coverage of Santorum Wins

More >>>

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Mixpo

  

  Mixpo is a video advertising technology provider that enables publishers, ad networks, and agencies to easily deliver dynamically tailored, interactive video ads that are customized in real-time for unique audience segments. Our platform also provides automatic multivariate testi..more

---

Most Recent Resources

• The New Normal for Promoting Tune-in
• Infrastructure Design for High Volume Video Workflows
• Improving the Internet TV and Mobile Video Experience – an Adap..
• Mobile Media Strategies That Work
• Increasing Efficiency in Digital Distribution of Media