HBO's 'Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel' is devoting a full hour to a special program Wednesday night on the state of college sports in America.

The special airs three days before the men's NCAA Final Four in Houston, and promises an "entertaining and substantive dialogue on the current state of big-time athletics in college sports."

The show will be divided into two segments: "The Money Trail" and "Pay to Play."

In "The Money Trail," correspondent Bernard Goldberg examines the notion of student-athletes remaining untainted amateurs while generating pro-type revenue for their schools.  In "Pay to Play," correspondent Andrea Kremer delves into the controversial and complex subject of premium college-bound athletes receiving benefits that are prohibited by the NCAA.

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Olympic gold medal swimmer and NC State grad Cullen Jones appears in one of the segments on tonight's (10 p.m.) September premiere of HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."

"The Swim Gap" explores the relationship between race and swimming in the U.S., and Jones' mission to bring down the number of African-Americans who don't know how to swim.

That gap is significant -- black children drown at a rate more than three times greater than whites and as many as 75 percent of African-Americans don't know how to swim.