Scoop B: CBS Sports’ Greg Gumbel says he watches his broadcasts and is his ‘own harshest critic’

CBS Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel and RESPECT Magazine’s Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. Photo Credit: Ismael Sayeed/Calligrafist Photography

CBS Sports’ Greg Gumbel details to Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson why he is his biggest critic. Press Play Below To Listen!

In the broadcasting game since 1973, CBS Sports’ Greg Gumbel is a household name and recognizable face during CBS Sports’ NFL broadcasts and during the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.

With all of that experience many would think that he’s arrived and needs no critique. To the contrary, however, Gumbel says he has stuck to advice that he got years ago. “You know I think that from day one, I wish I could remember who told me, but they said: ‘go back and listen to yourself,’” Greg Gumbel told me while on Scoop B Radio. “And I still do it these days.”

Gumbel has seen tours of duty at Chicago’s WMAQ-TV, ESPN, the Madison Square Garden Network, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and, now, again at CBS.

“I’ll do a football game on Sunday and I will watch the game on Monday and there’s nothing in there that surprises me usually. But once in awhile, I’ll realize I’m using this crutch phrase or I’m leaning on this a little too much and I say ‘this’ and I’m unaware of it. But watching things like that can teach you about yourself and you can learn things that other people either don’t see or won’t tell you.”

Best advice through this whole critique process Mr. Gumbel? “With everything else you are your own harshest critic,” he said.

Gumbel says that this anecdote even translates to the football field. “It makes me think of Vince Wilfork,” he said. “He told me that when he played with the Patriots, his wife would sit in the stands and text him at halftime things like: ‘nice tackle baby.'”

Moral of the story? “There’s always somebody watching!”

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Brandon Robinson

Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson is a managing editor and columnist at RESPECT Magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopB and Instagram: @Scoop_B. As a 12 year old, he was a Nets reporter from 1997-1999, co-hosting a show called Nets Slammin' Planet with former New Jersey Net Albert King and Nets play-by-play man Chris Carrino. He's also been a writer and radio host at CBS and a staff writer at The Source Magazine. He's a graduate of both Eastern University and Hofstra University. You can catch him daily on the Scoop B Radio Podcast. Visit ScoopBRadio.com to listen. For inquiries and to contact Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson visit ScoopB.com