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Post by stinger on Aug 16, 2012 16:25:22 GMT -5
Is there a way to see the 30 for 30 "shorts"? I read about them on the 30 for 30 wiki page but the only one i can find is the pete rose one. That's the only one that has aired so far. Next one airs Sept. 26 and is about Arnold Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding career.
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Post by Unocal 76 on Aug 16, 2012 16:49:03 GMT -5
My top 5 5. The U 4. June 17, 1994 3. Winning Time 2. Kings Ransom 1. Small Potatoes
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 17:45:42 GMT -5
Run Ricky Run
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Post by stinger on Aug 16, 2012 17:55:54 GMT -5
I really enjoyed "Small Potatoes" and "Pony Excess" too. "Without Bias" was good as well.
I hated "The U". It did nothing but reaffirm what I already thought - that the Hurricanes were loudmouthed, cocky thugs, not to mention drug dealers.
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Post by Jimmy on Aug 16, 2012 18:16:53 GMT -5
Once Brothers
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Post by ToyfareMark on Aug 16, 2012 18:34:58 GMT -5
Most of, if not all of them can be streamed on Netflix now.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Aug 17, 2012 23:56:55 GMT -5
"The Best That Never Was", "Four Days in October", "The Real Rocky" and "King's Ransom" are my four favorites.
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Post by King Ghidorah on Aug 18, 2012 0:04:32 GMT -5
Ricky was blazed and out of his mind. *Edit* I did like how he finally found some peace when he got to the CFL, dude had crazy social anxiety.
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Post by Mr. Medium Shot on Aug 18, 2012 3:58:33 GMT -5
June 17, 1994 might be my favorite. I think there should be one much like it about the events in baseball on September 28, 2011.
The U was also very good -- it reaffirmed my hatred for the Hurricanes, having grown up a Florida State fan.
The Best that Never Was, Small Potatoes and Pony Excess were all well worth watching.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2012 9:16:02 GMT -5
I guess if I need to rank them, it would go like this:
1) "Pony Exce$$" - Ah, the days of kick-ass Southwestern Conference football every Saturday afternoon. 2) "Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL?" - Much like the NASL, over-expansion and skyrocketing salaries (and greed) killed what could have been a great Spring sport. 3) "The Best That Never Was" The story that every young high school athlete needs to watch. 4) "Fernando Nation" - Fernando Valenzuela was one of my favorite players when I played ball as a youth. One of the reasons the Strike of 1981 was forgiven. 5) "The Band That Wouldn't Die" - Who knew they still exist?
"June 17, 1994" and "Muhammad vs. Larry" were pretty good as well.
Was kinda disappointed with "Silly Little Game", as I was one of those Rotisserie players back in the day.
As for "Straight Outta L.A."? C'mon, Ice Cube, really?
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Post by The Line on Aug 18, 2012 11:52:16 GMT -5
"Run Ricky Run"- A great look into the psyche of an athlete with a (once) troubled soul. Fans, the media, and team owners seem to want our athletes to be high-performance robots rather than people, and that money and fame is supposed to fix any mental/emotional problems that an athlete may have(when in reality, money and fame often times adds to the problem). It was incredibly tough to see a once-beloved athlete being raked over the coals by seemingly everyone whilst simultaneously going through some major anguish in his life. I am glad that he appears to be in a better mental state now, as some of those interviews from his period of retirement are kind of scary. He looked almost on the edge of suicide a few times, yet nobody, save for a few people, wanted to actually look at Ricky as a person who needed help and decided to blame it all on pot.
"Little Big Men"-I am biased since I am from Washington. Man, this story is heartbreaking. Obviously, as an athlete, I never found success on the same level as the Kirkland All-Star Team, but I do remember the pressures that adults would put on myself and my teammates. They(the adults) don't realize what they're doing(I hope), but it is incredibly stressful, and children typically aren't mentally equipped to handle that kind of stress. I can't tell you how many nights after games/meets/matches that I cried, not because I lost, but because I felt that I let my coach, parents, other adults down because I felt that I had failed them in some way. While I loved playing sports, I will always say that the worst part about children's athletics are the adults. Too many "stage moms and dads" trying to live vicariously through children. I was glad to see that Cody (the pitcher) seems to be at peace with both himself and the game of baseball today, but man, I wouldn't trade places with him, even if it meant I was a LLWS champ.
"Without Bias"-Like Marcus Dupree in "The Best There Never Was", Len Bias has to be one of the biggest "what ifs" in sports history. How would the landscape of the NBA had changed if Bias lived long enough to suit up for Boston? How much better would the Celtics(who were, at the time, the defending world champs) have been, and how would this transition into the 90s? Would Jordan had been able to dominate the East(and the entire NBA, for that matter) so easily if Bias was in Boston still? Documentaries like this, while amazing, leave you with more questions than answers.
"The Guru of Go"-Talk about a documentary with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. My favorite NCAA basketball team(other than WSU) is Gonzaga, out of the West Coast Conference, which is also the home of Loyola Marymount University, the alma mater of Hank Gathers. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be an LMU fan that season. To see your scrappy little team that's running this unorthodox style being able to legitimately say they're one of, if not the best team in the nation, only to have it all change literally in a heartbeat. The resolve of the remaining Lions to go out and play, and make it all the way to the Elite Eight is amazing and is one of the best stories in sports. Unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding it are so terrible.
I also liked "The Best that Never Was", but that has been talked about pretty substantially in this topic and others already.
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Post by mrrotten on Aug 18, 2012 16:28:24 GMT -5
Mine is the U, and I also liked Pony Excess and Catching Hell
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Post by Tyfo on Aug 18, 2012 18:16:17 GMT -5
Pony Excess is my favorite. Being a Dallas area resident, I've always been fascinated with the SMU story since I was to young to remember it when it happened.
Also love Winning Time, The Best That Never Was, Fab Five, Small Potatoes, and whatever the Chris Herren one was called.
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Post by Jazzman on Aug 19, 2012 0:37:54 GMT -5
While not an official 30 for 30, I thought that 26 Years: The Dewey Bozella Story is the best doc ESPN has ever done. I'm looking forward though to 9.79* in the fall.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 19, 2012 1:00:54 GMT -5
"Run Ricky Run"- A great look into the psyche of an athlete with a (once) troubled soul. Fans, the media, and team owners seem to want our athletes to be high-performance robots rather than people, and that money and fame is supposed to fix any mental/emotional problems that an athlete may have(when in reality, money and fame often times adds to the problem). It was incredibly tough to see a once-beloved athlete being raked over the coals by seemingly everyone whilst simultaneously going through some major anguish in his life. I am glad that he appears to be in a better mental state now, as some of those interviews from his period of retirement are kind of scary. He looked almost on the edge of suicide a few times, yet nobody, save for a few people, wanted to actually look at Ricky as a person who needed help and decided to blame it all on pot. "Little Big Men"-I am biased since I am from Washington. Man, this story is heartbreaking. Obviously, as an athlete, I never found success on the same level as the Kirkland All-Star Team, but I do remember the pressures that adults would put on myself and my teammates. They(the adults) don't realize what they're doing(I hope), but it is incredibly stressful, and children typically aren't mentally equipped to handle that kind of stress. I can't tell you how many nights after games/meets/matches that I cried, not because I lost, but because I felt that I let my coach, parents, other adults down because I felt that I had failed them in some way. While I loved playing sports, I will always say that the worst part about children's athletics are the adults. Too many "stage moms and dads" trying to live vicariously through children. I was glad to see that Cody (the pitcher) seems to be at peace with both himself and the game of baseball today, but man, I wouldn't trade places with him, even if it meant I was a LLWS champ. "Without Bias"-Like Marcus Dupree in "The Best There Never Was", Len Bias has to be one of the biggest "what ifs" in sports history. How would the landscape of the NBA had changed if Bias lived long enough to suit up for Boston? How much better would the Celtics(who were, at the time, the defending world champs) have been, and how would this transition into the 90s? Would Jordan had been able to dominate the East(and the entire NBA, for that matter) so easily if Bias was in Boston still? Documentaries like this, while amazing, leave you with more questions than answers. "The Guru of Go"-Talk about a documentary with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. My favorite NCAA basketball team(other than WSU) is Gonzaga, out of the West Coast Conference, which is also the home of Loyola Marymount University, the alma mater of Hank Gathers. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be an LMU fan that season. To see your scrappy little team that's running this unorthodox style being able to legitimately say they're one of, if not the best team in the nation, only to have it all change literally in a heartbeat. The resolve of the remaining Lions to go out and play, and make it all the way to the Elite Eight is amazing and is one of the best stories in sports. Unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding it are so terrible. I also liked "The Best that Never Was", but that has been talked about pretty substantially in this topic and others already. Another big "what if" is covered in Once Brothers. I really don't know what the hell the NBA, let alone global basketball, would be like nowadays, let alone back in the 90s, had Drazen Petrovic did not die in that car crash. He was obviously lighting shit up when it came to playing other national teams, and was just hitting his stride in the NBA. Hell his national team made it to gold medal game of the '92 Olympics after he died, if he didn't, would the famous '92 Team USA Dream Team have claimed their gold?
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Post by RI Richmark on Aug 19, 2012 9:43:56 GMT -5
"Run Ricky Run"- A great look into the psyche of an athlete with a (once) troubled soul. Fans, the media, and team owners seem to want our athletes to be high-performance robots rather than people, and that money and fame is supposed to fix any mental/emotional problems that an athlete may have(when in reality, money and fame often times adds to the problem). It was incredibly tough to see a once-beloved athlete being raked over the coals by seemingly everyone whilst simultaneously going through some major anguish in his life. I am glad that he appears to be in a better mental state now, as some of those interviews from his period of retirement are kind of scary. He looked almost on the edge of suicide a few times, yet nobody, save for a few people, wanted to actually look at Ricky as a person who needed help and decided to blame it all on pot. "Little Big Men"-I am biased since I am from Washington. Man, this story is heartbreaking. Obviously, as an athlete, I never found success on the same level as the Kirkland All-Star Team, but I do remember the pressures that adults would put on myself and my teammates. They(the adults) don't realize what they're doing(I hope), but it is incredibly stressful, and children typically aren't mentally equipped to handle that kind of stress. I can't tell you how many nights after games/meets/matches that I cried, not because I lost, but because I felt that I let my coach, parents, other adults down because I felt that I had failed them in some way. While I loved playing sports, I will always say that the worst part about children's athletics are the adults. Too many "stage moms and dads" trying to live vicariously through children. I was glad to see that Cody (the pitcher) seems to be at peace with both himself and the game of baseball today, but man, I wouldn't trade places with him, even if it meant I was a LLWS champ. "Without Bias"-Like Marcus Dupree in "The Best There Never Was", Len Bias has to be one of the biggest "what ifs" in sports history. How would the landscape of the NBA had changed if Bias lived long enough to suit up for Boston? How much better would the Celtics(who were, at the time, the defending world champs) have been, and how would this transition into the 90s? Would Jordan had been able to dominate the East(and the entire NBA, for that matter) so easily if Bias was in Boston still? Documentaries like this, while amazing, leave you with more questions than answers. "The Guru of Go"-Talk about a documentary with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. My favorite NCAA basketball team(other than WSU) is Gonzaga, out of the West Coast Conference, which is also the home of Loyola Marymount University, the alma mater of Hank Gathers. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to be an LMU fan that season. To see your scrappy little team that's running this unorthodox style being able to legitimately say they're one of, if not the best team in the nation, only to have it all change literally in a heartbeat. The resolve of the remaining Lions to go out and play, and make it all the way to the Elite Eight is amazing and is one of the best stories in sports. Unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding it are so terrible. I also liked "The Best that Never Was", but that has been talked about pretty substantially in this topic and others already. Another big "what if" is covered in Once Brothers. I really don't know what the hell the NBA, let alone global basketball, would be like nowadays, let alone back in the 90s, had Drazen Petrovic did not die in that car crash. He was obviously lighting s*** up when it came to playing other national teams, and was just hitting his stride in the NBA. Hell his national team made it to gold medal game of the '92 Olympics after he died, if he didn't, would the famous '92 Team USA Dream Team have claimed their gold? He was on that '92 team. The crash happened in June of '93.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Aug 19, 2012 13:14:45 GMT -5
The U, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, (It was one of my earliest sport moments) and Pony Excess.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Aug 19, 2012 16:08:09 GMT -5
Another big "what if" is covered in Once Brothers. I really don't know what the hell the NBA, let alone global basketball, would be like nowadays, let alone back in the 90s, had Drazen Petrovic did not die in that car crash. He was obviously lighting s*** up when it came to playing other national teams, and was just hitting his stride in the NBA. Hell his national team made it to gold medal game of the '92 Olympics after he died, if he didn't, would the famous '92 Team USA Dream Team have claimed their gold? He was on that '92 team. The crash happened in June of '93. Really? Must've confused that with some other tournament then.
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