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dsriggs posted:No, they won the lawsuit and got all the dollar I still love how it was a $1 judgement that was tripled due to anti-trust laws to a $3 windfall. Something about that fact just makes me laugh whenever I think about it.
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CraigK posted:I still love how it was a $1 judgement that was tripled due to anti-trust laws to a $3 windfall. Something about that fact just makes me laugh whenever I think about it. Letterman weighed in on it with a Top 10 List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhUO00qBmk
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Watched the Bo documentary for the first time today. Loved except for that one part that I'm sure bugged the poo poo out of everyone else.
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Declan MacManus posted:Watched the Bo documentary for the first time today. Loved except for that one part that I'm sure bugged the poo poo out of everyone else. Chuck Klosterman?
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tatankatonk posted:Chuck Klosterman? Oh, also that. I meant the part where the writers were falling all over themselves to praise Bo's purity and how they would have to "question everything" if he played in the steroid era.
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Just saw that Knuckleball went up on Netflix if you're like me and want to watch the Dickster knuckling the poo poo out of people.
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 PROGRAMMING ALERT The first Nine for IX special debuts on July 2 at 8PM ET: "Venus Vs", about Venus Williams' fight to win equal pay for female tennis athletes http://espn.go.com/espnw/w-in-action/nine-for-ix/article/8948839/nine-ix-film-summary-director-venus-vs
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The next slate of 30 for 30s have been announced: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/espns-30-30-series-feature-592493 They include Tonya and Nancy, Jimmy Connors in 1991 and John Spano's attempted ownership of the Islanders.
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The Kerrigan-Harding doc should be great, but Kerrigan will never sit and talk about it. It's like how Chris Webber couldn't do the Fab Five doc.
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The Spirits doc will own because Marvin Barnes owns
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sportsgenius86 posted:The Spirits doc will own because Marvin Barnes owns quote:The flight leaves Louisville at 8 pm and is scheduled to arrive in St. Louis at 7:56 pm. Upon reading the flight itinerary [Barnes] becomes confused and asks how can this be, someone breaks down the time zones and how St. Louis is an hour behind Louisville. [Barnes] says that they can cancel his ticket because “I ain’t gettin’ on no time machine!” He proceeded to rent a car for the trip.
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Favorites The U Winning Time You Don't know Bo Interesting A simple Game The Marinovich Project Elway to Marino Meh Straight Outta LA LARGE THE HEAD posted:The Kerrigan-Harding doc should be great, but Kerrigan will never sit and talk about it. It's like how Chris Webber couldn't do the Fab Five doc. Or how Ray Lewis didn't do The U but that may have been because he got there a little later. Oh well, there's a special celebrity cameo Hint: he was replaced by Warren Sapp.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:The Kerrigan-Harding doc should be great, but Kerrigan will never sit and talk about it. It's like how Chris Webber couldn't do the Fab Five doc. NBC just announced their own Tonya-Nancy doc during the Olympics where Nancy will speak: http://nbcumv.com/mediavillage/sports/nbcsports/pressreleases?pr=contents/press-releases/2013/07/27/exclusivenancyk1390322.xml Of course, it will probably interrupt whatever 12-hour old action they're holding back.
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I thought Chris Webber didn't do the Fab Five thing because he was banned from being associated with Michigan until this year.
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Kenya posted:Favorites Pony Excess really needs to be on that list.
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Pony Excess and The Two Escobars are both amazing. From Elway to Marino is really good too.
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Rumors have a Maurice Clarett-based 30 for 30 debuting after the Heisman ceremony this winter. June 17, 1994 is gripping as hell.
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Pony Excess is one of the few I'll watch over and over because it's one of the rare times when I'll say "Hell yeah they're talking to Skip Bayless"
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Declan MacManus posted:I thought Chris Webber didn't do the Fab Five thing because he was banned from being associated with Michigan until this year. He couldn't attend events put on by UM or that UM was at. I think he very much could've spoken about the Fab Five but he declined to comment because he would've been asked about taking money to play.
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I finally finished watching all of the first volume of 30 for 30s; I have to say, nearly all of them were really interesting stories...frankly, some of them I went into thinking I wouldn't care for the story but by the end, I found I had enjoyed watching it. Good Episodes Small Potatoes The U Silly Little Game The 16th Man June 17, 1994 Two Escobars Into the Wind Once Brothers Surprisingly Good Episodes The Band That Wouldn't Die Unmatched Jordan Rides the Bus One Night in Vegas Meh Four Days in October (and I'm a Red Sox fan!) Little Big Men Guru of Go A King's Ransom (being from Canada, I've grown seriously sick of hearing about the Gretzky trade for the last 25-odd years) Birth of Big Air I'm looking forward to watching the next season, as well as the other semi-related productions.
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John Singleton deserves to be mocked for his puff piece on Marion Jones. The absolute worst one so far. Ice Cube's piece on the Raiders is probably 2nd worst, although I'm not looking at a list to make sure.
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I watched Catching Hell last night and it was surprisingly good, despite being about Baseball. Poor Steve Bartman
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GD_American posted:John Singleton deserves to be mocked for his puff piece on Marion Jones. The absolute worst one so far. The one about Yankee Stadium was godawful too
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SteelAngel2000 posted:The one about Yankee Stadium was godawful too Which is all the more disappointing because its by one of my favorite documentarians of all time. MUST WATCH June 17, 1994 (My Favorite of the first run) The U The Two Escobars Good No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? Pony Excess (Though this is too long) Into the Wind The Best That Never Was Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks The Birth of Big Air Bad Once Brothers - Everyone seems to love this one but I found it completely unsatisfying and unwilling to push with the hard questions. You get a bogus (force narrative) moment of catharsis at the end in the awkward family meet up and thats about it. A legitimately interesting story that gets a poor story telling) Tim Richmond: To the Limit - From what I learned in the 30 for 30 thread a complete white wash of what really happened. Bullshit again because like Once Brothers (done by the league's in house team) its done by NASCAR films. Four Days In October - Yeah, what I really needed was a retelling of one of the biggest sports events in the last 10 years. Way to really tell a hidden gem of a story ESPN. Straight Outta L.A. - Should have been amazing. Instead it is a hamfistedly forced in to a parallel story of the rise of hip hop and Ice Cube waxing about how cool Silver and Black is. Marion Jones: Press Pause - Another that should have been amazing..instead bizarre and just plain bad. The worst of the series in my opinion. ADDENDUM. POST 30 For 30 ESPN DOCS The magic johnson one was okay, but it felt long. I mostly watched it because the footage from when it happened is the most fascinating. Just the pure shock that you could feel in the press conference and of random clips of people just watching the news. It's why June 17, 1994 is so fascinating. Without voice over it provides a look in to an amazing day. It's pure time capsule. Also in that Magic Johnson one when they show that clip from his tv special where the young girl who has HIV is crying and says she just wants to have sleepovers and be a normal kid and it cuts to the crew on set crying, i loving lose it. soggybagel fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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The worst part about the Red Sox one is Bill Simmons' insufferable smugness. How about you make one about Game 162, Bill? 
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I think the worst one I remember was Broke. Best was the Escobar or OJ one probably, The U was great too.
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vaginal culture posted:I think the worst one I remember was Broke. Yea, that one seemed to be edited pretty schizophrenically. Looking forward to Jimmy Connors 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ww7KM2qFR4
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The worst part about The U and Broke is how cheap the graphics package looks. Yeah, real nitpicky but it just looks like it was all done on imovie in two hours.
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The worst thing about Broke was that it needed more Herm Edwards.
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soggybagel posted:The worst part about The U and Broke is how cheap the graphics package looks. Yeah, real nitpicky but it just looks like it was all done on imovie in two hours. I know what you mean, but I feel that was a stylistic decision with The U and a matter of Broke just being a real steamer from start to finish. Gotta go with June 17, 1994 as my #1. When's the last time we had a loving day like that? Twitter would crumble into a pile of poo poo with all the cross-story sports chatter and then oh yeah OJ iced his ex wife and her bf and the whole city of LA (in 1994! What would that have looked like today!?) filled the streets to watch him take a joyride. We'd need an entirely separate Youtube channel for the content uploaded in one evening if that took place today.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:The worst thing about Broke was that it needed more Herm Edwards. You misspelled Andre Rison
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GD_American posted:John Singleton deserves to be mocked for his puff piece on Marion Jones. The absolute worst one so far. I still like the Raiders one because I never knew much about the team and its impact on pop culture. I guess it could have been done better. It's not right at the bottom of the pile for me at least. However, that Marion Jones one doesn't even deserve to be called a documentary film. What a piece of poo poo. One Night in Vegas loving sucks too with its terrible storytelling style and animation. I was really looking forward to it and didn't even finish watching it when it came on. The only bad thing about Roll Tide/War Eagle was that it was way too short.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:You misspelled Andre Rison I would've watched a 2.5 hour version of Broke where all they did was add more Rison and Herm
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soggybagel posted:Tim Richmond: To the Limit - From what I learned in the 30 for 30 thread a complete white wash of what really happened. Bullshit again because like Once Brothers (done by the league's in house team) its done by NASCAR films. Unfortunately, NASCAR likes to deny its sketchier moments and paint them in a prettier light, and will threaten to squash anybody that speaks against them (see $50,000 fines for complaining about the new car). Some of the archival clips and interviews with people that didn't seem to care what NASCAR thought (Dr. Jerry Punch and Kyle Petty, the latter thought the handling of the whole "pneumonia" situation was bullshit from the beginning) were the best. e- I had never thought about the possibility of Richmond getting a ride and running the '88 Busch Clash to use the car as a suicide machine. One of the mini-documentaries about Wendell Scott's first win in the 1960s (and the deliberate awarding of the win to Buck Baker, who finished second, so as to not piss off rednecks) might be interesting, but the producer would probably wind up face down in a North Carolina field once Brian France got wind. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jul 30, 2013 |
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shyduck posted:I wish somebody would do a doc about how much of a oval office Brian France is If you have archives, about a year ago (?)the NASCAR thread had a poster with some incredible France family stories.
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shyduck posted:I wish somebody would do a doc about how much of a oval office Brian France is No one is going to watch that. And a Wendell Scott 30 for 30 would be white washed more than the Richmond one was. On the other hand you have a whole lot of great things you could do with racing. Bill France vs the Teamsters, Bill France vs Petty and the drivers union, Senna's death and how someone went to prison for manslaughter, the split and what a douche bag Tony George is. The USAC/Champ car split. Anything about the Isle of Mann TT. The history of Le Mans, any part of it. I can not believe there isn't a 9X9 on Muldowney or Guthrie. My point is there are hundreds of things in racing you could do, as long as NASCAR doesn't get their hands in it.
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Danica! posted:the split and what a douche bag Tony George is. This is the one I'd seriously love to see, and figure ESPN would do seeing as they're losing NASCAR but will still have IndyCar coverage through 2018.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:If you have archives, about a year ago (?)the NASCAR thread had a poster with some incredible France family stories. Wasn't that Hagetaka (or whatever his name is now)?
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CBJSprague24 posted:This is the one I'd seriously love to see, and figure ESPN would do seeing as they're losing NASCAR but will still have IndyCar coverage through 2018. ESPN wants out of racing, and honestly if they could get a viable offer from NBC and approval from IndyCar, they would drop racing and any mention of it in a god drat heartbeat. So its hard to see them even bothering with the effort of producing something pretty compelling.
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