NBA All-Star selections are mostly fitting – Los Angeles Times

February 12th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Basketball, Movie

NBA All-Star selections can seem as predictable as upbeat endings in Disney movies. In a shocker, Yao Ming wasn’t voted in this year even though he has retired

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NBA All-Star selections are mostly fitting – News-Democrat

February 12th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Basketball, Movie

LOS ANGELES — NBA All-Star selections can seem as predictable as upbeat endings in Disney movies. In a shocker, Yao Ming wasn’t voted in this year even though he has retired

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Will Ferrell does intros for NBA game – WIS-TV

February 9th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Basketball, Movie

NEW ORLEANS, LA (RNN) – According to Will Ferrell, NBA MVP Derrick Rose’s favorite movie is The Notebook. The star of Anchorman, The Other Guys and the basketball comedy Semi-Pro performed the introductions at Wednesday’s Chicago Bulls-New Orleans …

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Just in time for the Super Bowl, the greatest football movies of all time – Examiner

February 4th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Football, Movie

Football is, hands down, the most popular team sport in America and with Super Bowl Sunday kicking off tomorrow, here’s a list of the greatest football related movies of all time, in chronological order, to get you in the mood. Billy Dee Williams and …

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Football fans riding the Tebow wave – Florida Today

January 10th, 2012 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Football, Movie

Tim Tebow is a cultural tsunami. Were you talking about anyone else Monday morning

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Football underdog "Rudy" sacked for stock fraud – msnbc.com

December 17th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Entertainment, Football, Movie, Uncategorized

Daniel Ruettiger, the legendary Notre Dame football underdog who inspired the 1993 movie “Rudy,” couldn’t do an end run around the U.S.

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American Samoa and More Upsets from Bottom-Ranked International Football Teams – Bleacherreport.com

November 29th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Movie, Sports, Uncategorized

It’s in the DNA of the sports fan to love the underdog. It’s why movies like Rocky and Rudy exist, to feed that ever-present part of our brain that makes us want to get up and cheer when it looks like the unlikely heroes will achieve their dreams after all …

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