many listed already were really good.. how about Jim Thorpe all american...gotta love lancaster movie with denzel washington about a boxer...hurricane something was kinda good.
Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets 1948-76 Topps FB Sets FB & BB HOF Player sets 1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
I like Hoosiers, Chariots of Fire, The Eiger Sanction and a hoops film that I do not recall the title of at the moment.
It came out in the late 70's or early 80's. It starred Gabe Kaplan. He was a married man who loved basketball and who wanted to coach a college team. Well he got a job offer to coach a college team in Nevada called Cadwallader College. He moved from New York to Nevada. He needed players so he recruited some local New York hoopsters to go out to Nevada with him. Included in the players he took with him was a player played by NBA All Star Bernard King. Former UCLA player and later coach Larry Farmer also played the part of a player in the movie. The "team" ended up having lots of funny things happen to it during the season, along with winning a lot of games. In the end, the Gabe Kaplan team gets to play a big school team from Nevada (a fictional school and a fictional coach modeled after UNLV and Tark the Shark). Gabe Kaplan's tean wins the game.
<< <i>I like Hoosiers, Chariots of Fire, The Eiger Sanction and a hoops film that I do not recall the title of at the moment.
It came out in the late 70's or early 80's. It starred Gabe Kaplan. He was a married man who loved basketball and who wanted to coach a college team. Well he got a job offer to coach a college team in Nevada called Cadwallader College. He moved from New York to Nevada. He needed players so he recruited some local New York hoopsters to go out to Nevada with him. Included in the players he took with him was a player played by NBA All Star Bernard King. Former UCLA player and later coach Larry Farmer also played the part of a player in the movie. The "team" ended up having lots of funny things happen to it during the season, along with winning a lot of games. In the end, the Gabe Kaplan team gets to play a big school team from Nevada (a fictional school and a fictional coach modeled after UNLV and Tark the Shark). Gabe Kaplan's tean wins the game. >>
Yeah, I remember that flick. One of the players was actually a chick in disguise, which was 'causing another player to think he was gay when, for whatever reason, he was getting weird feelings about this other person whenever she was around.
Problem is, I have a hard time relating comedies to true sports films. This is why I couldn't lump a "League of their own", "Major League", and "Slapshot" into the same group. Maybe the original "Bad News Bears", but that's about it.
College (with Buster Keaton) Eight Men Out Raging Bull The Set-Up (another great boxing film and a big influence on Raging Bull) Slap Shot Cobb Hoop Dreams (documentary) A Player to be Named Later (documentary)
And how has no one mentioned bowling?? If golf is a sport then so is bowling the two obvious ones with key bowling parts- Kingpin and Big Lebowski and a great documentary I just saw- The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
I would like to add to his past 10-year list, which surprisingly wasn't mentioned, is "The Replacements".
While it does sorta follow Bill's automatic green light method, IMO, it's a rewatchable flick from beginning to end.
I mean come on, it's about "heart" and a deaf guy wins the game.
How can you not love it?!?!
So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
My votes: Dodgeball (solely for the David Hasselhoff appearance), Balls of Fury, the SouthPark episode where Kyle defeats the local hot-shot in downhill skiing
Jim G All-time favorite athletes: Steve Sax, Steve Garvey, Larry Bird, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Andre Agassi, Karch Kiraly, Wayne Gretzky, Ichiro Suzuki, Andres Galarraga, Greg Maddux. "Make the world a better place... punch both A-Rods in the face (Alex Rodriguez and Andy Roddick)!"
It was never one of my favorites, but I always stop to watch Vision Quest when it comes on because it was filmed (at least parts of it were) in my hometown of Spokane, Washington and my PE teacher, Cash Stone, was in the movie as one of the wrestling officials.
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how about Jim Thorpe all american...gotta love lancaster
movie with denzel washington about a boxer...hurricane something was kinda good.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
Oh, and BloodSport.
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Diggstown?
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Blasphemy!!
It came out in the late 70's or early 80's. It starred Gabe Kaplan. He was a married man who loved basketball and who wanted to coach a college team. Well he got a job offer to coach a college team in Nevada called Cadwallader College. He moved from New York to Nevada. He needed players so he recruited some local New York hoopsters to go out to Nevada with him. Included in the players he took with him was a player played by NBA All Star Bernard King. Former UCLA player and later coach Larry Farmer also played the part of a player in the movie. The "team" ended up having lots of funny things happen to it during the season, along with winning a lot of games. In the end, the Gabe Kaplan team gets to play a big school team from Nevada (a fictional school and a fictional coach modeled after UNLV and Tark the Shark). Gabe Kaplan's tean wins the game.
<< <i>I like Hoosiers, Chariots of Fire, The Eiger Sanction and a hoops film that I do not recall the title of at the moment.
It came out in the late 70's or early 80's. It starred Gabe Kaplan. He was a married man who loved basketball and who wanted to coach a college team. Well he got a job offer to coach a college team in Nevada called Cadwallader College. He moved from New York to Nevada. He needed players so he recruited some local New York hoopsters to go out to Nevada with him. Included in the players he took with him was a player played by NBA All Star Bernard King. Former UCLA player and later coach Larry Farmer also played the part of a player in the movie. The "team" ended up having lots of funny things happen to it during the season, along with winning a lot of games. In the end, the Gabe Kaplan team gets to play a big school team from Nevada (a fictional school and a fictional coach modeled after UNLV and Tark the Shark). Gabe Kaplan's tean wins the game. >>
Yeah, I remember that flick. One of the players was actually a chick in disguise, which was 'causing another player to think he was gay when, for whatever reason, he was getting weird feelings about this other person whenever she was around.
Problem is, I have a hard time relating comedies to true sports films. This is why I couldn't lump a "League of their own", "Major League", and "Slapshot" into the same group. Maybe the original "Bad News Bears", but that's about it.
College (with Buster Keaton)
Eight Men Out
Raging Bull
The Set-Up (another great boxing film and a big influence on Raging Bull)
Slap Shot
Cobb
Hoop Dreams (documentary)
A Player to be Named Later (documentary)
And how has no one mentioned bowling?? If golf is a sport then so is bowling
the two obvious ones with key bowling parts- Kingpin and Big Lebowski
and a great documentary I just saw- The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
I would like to add to his past 10-year list, which surprisingly wasn't mentioned, is "The Replacements".
While it does sorta follow Bill's automatic green light method, IMO, it's a rewatchable flick from beginning to end.
I mean come on, it's about "heart" and a deaf guy wins the game.
How can you not love it?!?!
All-time favorite athletes:
Steve Sax, Steve Garvey, Larry Bird, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Andre Agassi, Karch Kiraly, Wayne Gretzky, Ichiro Suzuki, Andres Galarraga, Greg Maddux.
"Make the world a better place... punch both A-Rods in the face (Alex Rodriguez and Andy Roddick)!"