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FROM KEITH GROLLER
Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien, whose program always seems to be in the news, will be profiled on the next edition of HBO's award-winning "Real Sports" series hosted by Bryant Gumbel.
The next "Real Sports" debuts at 10 p.m. on Tuesday and replays several times on HBO and HBO2 through June 3.
Veteran reporter Andrea Kremer does the profile and here's a preview of the segment from an HBO release:
*Family Ties. After nearly 20 years in college and pro football, Bill O’Brien finally attained the head coaching job he coveted. Prior to the 2012 season, the 43-year-old Brown alum took over a Penn State University program devastated by the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Then the NCAA hit the university with a $60 million fine, scholarship reductions and a four-year bowl ban for lack of institutional control. After an 0-2 start amidst these unprecedented sanctions, O’Brien rallied his team to win eight of the next ten games, exceeding all expectations. He learned resilience in the face of adversity from his ten-year-old son, Jack, who suffers from a debilitating brain disorder and fights to survive every day of his life. Andrea Kremer goes one-on-one with the 2012 National Coach of the Year and learns how his son’s condition helped prepare him for the challenges he’s encountered in turning around a program shattered by scandal.
There are other quality segments, too, such as one which talks about the solidarity that exists between Boston and Oklahoma City in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, and also a segment on how physical attacks on referees are increasing and one recent assault took the life of a soccer official.
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