REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel: June 2022 (S28EP6 HBO Tuesday June 21, 2022)

CHRIS EVERT: Tennis superstar Chris Evert defined an era in women’s sports, winning at least one Grand Slam title for 13 straight years. Today, she faces a very different kind of fight: ovarian cancer. Mary Carillo reports. Producer: Nick Dolin.

KERI BLAKINGER: For Keri Blakinger, the unforgiving world of incarceration in America is intimately familiar — not just because she’s one of the most prominent prison reporters but because she also served time in federal prison. Her unusual journey into the American criminal justice system began in, of all places, the world of figure skating, where Blakinger was once an Olympic hopeful. Soledad O’Brien reports. Producer: Dan Litke.

SCUBA DETECTIVES: While many scuba divers search for coral reefs and tropical fish, others are on a much different hunt.  Recovery divers use the sport of scuba diving to investigate underwater crime scenes. Real Sports follows a training session with the country’s leading underwater criminal investigator as he trains cops in scuba detective work. They visit Panama where a master scuba diver recently recovered the bodies of two women trapped in a plane at the bottom of the ocean. Jon Frankel reports. Producer: Maggie Burbank.

Airdate: Tuesday June 21, 2022 at 22:00 on HBO

Season 28 Episode 6

Bryant Gumbel hosts this investigative sports newsmagazine series that features in-depth reports from "Real Sports" correspondents Mary Carillo, Bernard Goldberg, Frank Deford, Soledad O’Brien, Andrea Kremer, Jon Frankel and Gumbel himself. The series airs monthly, and each hourlong edition contains four segments. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has won multiple Sports Emmy Awards and in 2006 became the first sports program honored with the duPont Award for excellence in broadcast journalism by Columbia University.