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What: “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel”

Where: HBO, tonight, 10

HBO, in the featured segment on this edition of “Real Sports,” goes behind the scenes to look at “Fox NFL Sunday.” Give HBO credit. If it’s a story, it doesn’t matter if it’s on a competing network.

Correspondent Bernard Goldberg describes the show as “three kids in the back seat of a car trying to drive their dad nuts.” The three kids are Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Cris Collinsworth. Dad is James Brown, the show’s host.

Bradshaw, in describing the secret to the show’s success, says, “We are best friends; we’re like brothers.”

Two years ago, before ABC even thought about putting a comedian in the “Monday Night Football” booth, Fox added comedian Jimmy Kimmel to its pregame show. Bradshaw, on the air, summed up the reaction of the others: “He wouldn’t know a football team if it was standing right next to him.”

Kimmel seems to know something. As a prognosticator, he has picked five consecutive upset specials, most recently the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, and is 39-18 overall.

HBO deals at length with this season’s more controversial addition, weather girl Jillian Barberie. “I’m not a weather girl, I’m a weather broad,” she tells Goldberg. “You can have breasts and still deliver an accurate weather forecast.”

USA Today columnist Christine Brennan says, “I think she opens the door for the Neanderthals out there to go, ‘There’s what women really want to do in sportscasting.’ ”

Barberie says, “I must have missed the sexual harassment course because I love to taunt and I love to play. My husband’s the one who should be getting upset, but he doesn’t. In fact, he says, ‘Flirt more. Bring home the bacon. Get out there!’ ”

Of complaints from feminists, producer Scott Ackerson says, “They have a lot more things to worry about than Jillian’s minute and a half.”

The other stories:

* Lasik eye surgery and its role in sports. Tiger Woods, Bernie Williams and Tony Dorsett are among those who endorse it.

* Reggie Strickland, the world’s worst active boxer. His record is 52-224-15. He is banned from boxing in his home state of Ohio but continues to find matches. “As long as I get that ching-ching when it’s all over, I’m happy,” he said.

* Charges of racism against the University of South Florida women’s basketball coach, Jerry Ann Winters.