UFC 51 Super Saturday Feature

Do you like interesting debates? Try ranking sports movies.(Sports Extra)

Byline: Bob Frisk Sports fans love to argue. Sports fans also love lists. Making them, reading them, defending them. It's in our DNA. If you're with friends and the conversation suddenly starts to drag, you can always turn to sports movies. What's the best ever? What's the worst ever? Everybody's

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)

Best sports movies? Just follow my cue.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ I saw a preview the other night for a soon to be released golf movie, "The Legend of Bagger Vance." I rarely watch golf, but I'll watch a movie about golf. Some sports lend themselves to movies. I ranked my top 20 sports movies of all time Thursday, and golf finished third with

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

Sports Movies ...(Here Below)

Although we've been a movie buff since our exposure to such great art as "Our Gang" comedies and Tom Mix on a black horse named Tony, we have always wondered why Hollywood has been in a 100-year slump when it comes to sports movies. The lack of quality has been startling. And if we had any doubts

Publication: Coach and Athletic Director

`White Men Can't Jump' soars above sports movies

My problem with sports movies has always been the same. I couldn't take seriously any movie in which the actors were athletic klutzes. To see Jimmy Stewart pitch to June Allyson in "The Monte Stratton Story" - well, Jimmy can act, but June had the better arm. Stallone as a fighter? Puh-leeze, spare

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

Veteran actor Ross knows a thing or two about sports movies.(Sports)

Byline: Kent McDill Daily Herald Sports Writer Quiz time: Name an actor living in the Chicago area who has been in three successful motion pictures about sports. OK, let's start with an easier question. Name an actor who has been in three successful motion pictures about sports. You say Kevin

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)

`Tin Cup' Director Says he May Break From Sports Movies

00-00-0000 Ron Shelton enjoys doing movies with a sports backdrop. He's more interested in doing stories about fringe characters than about heroic champions, as his movies demonstrate. ALEX CHADWICK, Host: Many people would regard golf as among the least sexy sports imaginable and is not especially

Publication: NPR Morning Edition

Top sports movies, cashing in on FIFA.

India, July 1 -- Rocky This 1976 American sports drama catapulted Sylvester Stallone into a cult status. It is the story of Rocky Balboa an uneducated debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia. Rocky, who starts as a club fighter, realises his dream when he gets a chance to participate at the

Publication: New Indian Express (Chennai, India)

Sports, movies and music at ISU

Taking a look at campus events this weekend, the Idaho State women's basketball team will be in action tonight against Weber State at 7 p.m. in Reed Gym. The Bengals, who won two games on the road last weekend, look to solidify their place in the postseason Big Sky Tournament by defeating the

Publication: Idaho State Journal

The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies.(Brief article)(Book review)

The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies Ray Didinger & Glen Macnow Running Press 2300 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19103 9780762435487, $19.95 www.runningpress.com The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies features 100 sports films deemed the greatest of all time and adds in fun features, facts, and original

Publication: California Bookwatch

Men Metaphor: Life lessons in sports movies like 'Invincible' make a grown man cry

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A little guy (maybe not in stature, but at least in prestige, power, heritage or bank account) is told he can't do something; disregards naysayers; sets off on a journey to prove the world wrong; is much scorned; faces hardships; defies odds; wrestles with

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times