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Albinator posted:Wasn't it the testing guy who died in 2010, though? There was some note about that at the end of it. So I guess Carl Lewis is safe. No, I believe that it was the doctor that was giving athletes/Ben Johnson HGH/anabolics that died. That testing guy was very much new footage. Carl Lewis would probably pay that man almost every penny he had to keep his legacy.
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ChampRamp posted:No, I believe that it was the doctor that was giving athletes/Ben Johnson HGH/anabolics that died. The guy who died in 2010 was Ben Johnson's coach who was the one in charge of the doping regiment.
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Kevyn posted:I want Burns and Simon to do a documentary about the annual East Baltimore vs West Baltimore hoops game. Dear god, this would be amazing.
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Kevyn posted:I want Burns and Simon to do a documentary about the annual East Baltimore vs West Baltimore hoops game. Bill Simmons, I have a proposition for you.
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screenwritersblues posted:Dear god, this would be amazing. The Wire owns
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Demented Guy posted:The Wire owns I'm starting the last season tomorrow and seriously, it does. It has the be the best written TV show ever in the history of Television. If you haven't watched it, then by all means do and watch the story lines unfold. Also tonight is There's No Place Like Home. Wikipedia posted:On December 10, 2010, Sotheby’s auctioned off the most important historical document in sports history: James Naismith's original rules of basketball. There’s No Place Like Home is the story of one fan’s obsessive quest to win the artifact at auction and bring the rules "home" to Lawrence, Kansas, where Naismith coached and taught for more than 40 years. This one seems that it could be interesting, but then again if it goes the wrong way, it's going to be boring.
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Is there a list of future ones? I know Benji is coming up which sounds great. Saw some rumors about one being made about Maurice Clarrett which I think would be interesting too.
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Niwrad posted:Is there a list of future ones? I know Benji is coming up which sounds great. Saw some rumors about one being made about Maurice Clarrett which I think would be interesting too. The next two are Benji and Ole Miss integration, then a Bo Jackson one the night of the Heisman presentation. The rest aren't scheduled yet but the extended preview showed Hagler-Hearns, Kerrigan-Harding, Clarett and Valvano's title team
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Niwrad posted:Is there a list of future ones? I know Benji is coming up which sounds great. Saw some rumors about one being made about Maurice Clarrett which I think would be interesting too. Wait I already saw Benji on Comcast On Demand. Why would they make it available before it aired?
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Yeah this guy is a douche. As a KU fan, I'm really enjoying all the interviews with past coaches/players though.
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I thought that was the worst 30 for 30 they've done. Maybe after the Penn State stuff I find the super diehard college fan who treats a game and its figure as Gods to be creepy. But otherwise, it wasn't all that interesting. What it came down to was convincing one rich guy to bid a lot for the paper that I don't think many people in the sports world knew existed.
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gret posted:Wait I already saw Benji on Comcast On Demand. Why would they make it available before it aired? This man is correct...what the gently caress?
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I swear the guy who wrote the voice-over for the little league documentary had some sort of bet about how many awful, over-wrought cliches he could force out of a gravelly-voiced actor. I dare you to get more than 15 minutes into it without getting incredulous that those sentences are happening to you.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I swear the guy who wrote the voice-over for the little league documentary had some sort of bet about how many awful, over-wrought cliches he could force out of a gravelly-voiced actor. I dare you to get more than 15 minutes into it without getting incredulous that those sentences are happening to you. That one bothered me because they filmed every face way too close. It was kind of comical.
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sportsgenius86 posted:This Benji doc is awesome so far but I can't get past how much one of his teammates looks like Beetlejuice from Howard Stern I liked it, but I didn't care for the "he was Magic Johnson with a jumper" quote that I've seen repeated over and over again on Twitter. Magic HAD a jump shot. A good one, in fact. May not have been the prettiest to look at, but the ball went in the hole.
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JT_Dutch posted:I liked it, but I didn't care for the "he was Magic Johnson with a jumper" quote that I've seen repeated over and over again on Twitter. Magic HAD a jump shot. A good one, in fact. May not have been the prettiest to look at, but the ball went in the hole. Magic was among the best at putting things in holes.
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Frot Lesnar posted:Magic was among the best at putting things in holes. If anything, too good at putting things in holes.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Did anyone watch "Ghosts of Ole Miss?" Goddamn, that was shocking. I knew it was bad in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era, but a campus-wide riot? Yeah I finally caught it on my DVR today. I was really surprised how honest a lot of the people they interviewed were (Although they didn't find anyone who was still against segregation and I'm sure those people are out there).
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For some reason I kept getting the feeling in the Ole Miss doc that the tone was supposed to be "look at how we persevered despite the big bad yankees trying to take our heritage away" - it's likely that a majority of the team's players were on the same side as the students and governor, but they tried to frame it in a way which made it seem like the all-white football team was the entity under the most duress at the time. The black student was badass though, dressed up like a black Tom Wolfe. Decent doc, but the angle felt askew for the whole hour.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Did anyone watch "Ghosts of Ole Miss?" Goddamn, that was shocking. I knew it was bad in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era, but a campus-wide riot? I haven't seen the 30 for 30 piece, but yes. Lots of places had riots to varying degrees, though Ole Miss was probably the worst. At least for a college campus. Georgia was a bit wild, then calm, then students got upset over being beaten again by Georgia Tech in basketball and started an on-campus riot, heading for the dorms where the two black students were staying (UGA's old basketball stadium was much closer to the dorms than Stegeman is now). Alabama had problems galore to the point the first black students had to withdraw. Mississippi's the only one I can immediately think of that had on-campus murders, though, over integration. Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff do a pretty good job chronicling the era in The Race Beat. There's a chapter devoted to just that night at Ole Miss.
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So I don't really know where else to post this because it's just one video, so this thread seemed like the best fit. Every once in a while I'll re-watch this video because it's probably one of the best things ESPN has ever done, in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK-l0dEvfWg I get chills every time I watch it. It just strikes that perfect chord of why sports are the best and I really love it a lot so I wanted to share.
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kidcoelacanth posted:So I don't really know where else to post this because it's just one video, so this thread seemed like the best fit. Every once in a while I'll re-watch this video because it's probably one of the best things ESPN has ever done, in my opinion: Haha Lance. Also I like how "am I part of the disease" includes Randy Moss jokingly mooning packers fans along with steroid users and brawling.
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