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22.06.07 Good Game
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After ranting about profesional basketball films that would make you long for the NBA during the Seventies, I think we should laud basketball films that stayed real to the realities of the sport. Believe me, basketball is far from the nostalgia of baseball or boxing and the grittiness of football. However, there are still […]

21.06.07 Basket-fall
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With the ratings of the recently-concluded NBA Finals simply tanking so much fans wished for the sight of Manute Bol, it made me look back at the classic films related to basketball. You know, films that made an average sports fan love a film. However, none of them are related to the National Basketball […]

31.03.07 The Champions
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Let us now go for gold and tell you what I think are the most entertaining sports films of all time. At least those that still hold up to today’s standards and won’t alienate the younger generation.
5) Bull Durham - any film with Kevin Costner playing baseball is at the very least worth the price […]

30.03.07 Unsportsmanlike Conduct
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Let us now talk about those athletes who hit the screen so hard their performances went THUD! Some performances were simply worse than Joe Theismann’s injury. Hell, some were more offensive than Marty McSorley’s antics in the NHL.
Shaquille O’Neal - His basketball achievements are simply marvelous. His rapping is debatable. His acting was the equivalent […]

29.03.07 Reel Sportsmen
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A few articles ago, I wrote about the music industry’s contribution to Hollywood. From Snoop Dogg to Ja Rule, from Justin Timberlake to Beyonce Knowles. Musicians love to be on film.
With March Madness down to its final days, I thought it would only be fitting to scour the many sportsmen who have been acting in […]