Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Сезон 18

Many football players use Toradol, a potent drug that allows them to play through their pain, and that has doctors worried. Jeff and Stan Van Gundy are sons of a basketball coach who both made it to the NBA. Jeff is now a broadcaster who sometimes covers his brother Stan's games. Kevin Kelly is an Arkansas high school football coach whose statistical analysis of the game has led him to believe that teams should almost never punt and should always attempt onside kicks. Andrea Kremer catches up with Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins, who was AWOL for Super Bowl XXXVII and has struggled to stay sober and out of prison ever since.

Magic Johnson on the Lakers and his ownership of the Dodgers. Bernard Goldberg looks into the troubling issue of ballpark violence. Armen Keteyian hits the Las Vegas strip to meet some the remarkable athletes of Cirque du Soleil. John Frankel returns to Grove City to reveal how the community is coping with severe cutbacks to their high school athletic programs.