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I am not sure what is scarier - the “death row” eyes or the “pit bull” shifting jaws.
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crazy cool cover designs from NBA Italia.
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May 17, 1970 - Hank Aaron is best known as home run hitter, but the he was also a consistent .300 hitter throughout his 23-year major league...
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Army Lieutenant Colonel William T. Adams returns home to his daughter, after a year of Active Duty, at the Boston/Tampa Bay game (x)
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30 for 30 Shorts: The Irrelevant Giant
The forgotten player from Bill Parcells’s first draft with the Giants stars in the latest from the 30 for 30 documentary series
via Grantland
The Short Game documetary follows the best 7 year old golfers from around the world as they descend on the world famous Pinehurst Golf course in North Carolina to determine the next world champion and who might become golf’s next phenomenon.
Most of these young prodigies have been holding clubs since before they could walk.
(via American University Alumni Association on Facebook)
“Michael Jordan: Air Time” documents Jordan and the Chicago Bulls’ 1991-92 season, including Jordan dealing with his friend and rival Magic Johnson’s retirement announcement, gambling allegations, talk of the team possibly breaking the long-in-place season win record with 70 victories, filming a music video with Michael Jackson, and other obstacles throughout the course of the year. The video follows this with the “Dream Team” (Jordan and his fellow NBA stars) gaining worldwide attention as they partake and dominate in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and concludes with the Bulls’ championship ring ceremony in the fall of ‘92.
Plot Summary via IMBD
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Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC - Trailer
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A Football Life: Tim Tebow. Tonight 8:00 p.m. on The NFL Network.
Click thru for the trailer
Billy Corben’s “Broke” will be the first of ESPN Films 30 for 30 vol. II premiering on October 2
Broke explores the roads to fortune in American sports and eventually, the many detours to bankruptcy. Bernie Kosar, Andre Rison and Cliff Floyd are among the athletes who talk openly about the challenges of managing their money in an era when big contracts don’t necessarily support bigger lifestyles. Sucked into bad investments, stalked by freeloaders and saddled with medical problems, many pro athletes get shocked by harsh economic realities after years of living the high life. A story of the dark side of success, Broke is an allegory for the financial woes haunting economies and individuals all over the world.
See the rest of the schedule here: ESPN Media Zone
Wilmer Valderrama and Mr. Met at the “Knuckleball” premiere
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Namath (9pm, HBO)
“‘Namath’ seems too cozy and slightly too apologetic to be considered a pure, real-deal, warts-in-sports documentary, yet too honest to be seen as a whitewash. But, above and beyond that, it’s good, very good.” - Phil Mushnick, NY Post
8 P.M. (ESPN) THE REAL ROCKY
In 1975 Chuck Wepner, the 6-foot-5 boxer known as the Bayonne Bleeder for his New Jersey hometown and for the pummeling he sustained at the fists of Sonny Liston, went up against Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title and a potential purse of $100,000. (Ali would win $1.5 million.) Wepner knocked Ali down in the ninth round, stunning the crowd; in the remaining rounds Ali opened cuts above Wepner’s eyes, broke his nose and, with 19 seconds remaining in the 15th round, knocked him down, winning the bout. Watching it all was a young Sylvester Stallone, who was inspired to write the script for, and eventually star in, “Rocky” (1976), which won three Academy Awards, including best picture. Jeff Feuerzeig (“The Devil and Daniel Johnston”) chronicles the life and times of Wepner, now a liquor salesman who drives a Cadillac with vanity plates that read “Champ.”
Muslim High School Football Players Stay Close to Home
As the title credits roll in “Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football” — a documentary about Fordson High School’s football team, whose ranks are drawn from the predominantly Arab population of Dearborn, Mich. — we hear a gripping audio montage of anti-Muslim tirades.
These sound bites of unidentified but recognizable talk radio and cable news mainstays are the kind of provocations regularly criticized by media watchdogs. But when all of this hatemongering is mashed together with a sweeping orchestral march, the individual instances of bigotry are transformed into something larger: a glimpse of how monstrous our post-9/11 hysteria may appear to future students of American history.
“Fordson,” however, does not condemn the United States. It rather proudly affirms the American dream, reclaiming it for Muslims who see no conflict between their patriotism and their faith.
Continue reading… ‘Fordson - Faith, Fasting, Football’ — Review - NYTimes
