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Favorites
Friday Night Lights
Rudy
Hoop Dreams
A League of Their Own
Rookie of the Year
Million Dollar Baby

Overrated
Remember the Titans
Hoosiers
Jerry Maguire

The Mighty Ducks (Part 1)

BLASPHEMER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoosiers is my favorite sports movie. Having grown up in rural Indiana, the movie really captured the way basketball is the center of the universe in the small towns and farm areas. I still get choked up at the scene where Ollie sinks the winning (underhanded) free throw to win the game. In fact, most of the teams that Hickory plays in the game sequences are real towns in the same area I grew up.

My Favorites:

A League of Their Own
Remember the Titans
Mighty Ducks
Miracle
The Rookie
We Are Marshall
Kirate Kid

Tin Cup.

She's the man


and Ladybugs

The Mighty Ducks
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Hoosiers

Sports movies are my equivalent to chick flicks; I cry every time.

We Are Marshall is pretty much one big cry fest.

BostonBryan saidWe Are Marshall is pretty much one big cry fest.

Didn't see that one yet. I'll have to check it out.

My favorite sports movie is also the worst sports movie.

Over the Top. With Sylvester Stallone in which he is a trucker and a deadbeat dad who must win back his sons love... with arm wrestling! For a lesson on how to act with only your eye brows, watch the last match of the movie

Showing my age here but:

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner with Tom Courtney

This Sporting Life with Richard Harris. Male frontal nudity in the 60s.

and more up to date:

Remember the Titans only because "Sunshine" was so hot!

Downhill Racer with Robert Redford in his prime!

May have more later.

Coach

Remember the Titans was too textbook and cliche. I think it should have been darker but it was a Disney film.

Not sure spelling is a sport, but Spellbound was pretty amusing.

And obviously Unnecessary Roughness.

BostonBryan saidRemember the Titans was too textbook and cliche. I think it should have been darker but it was a Disney film.

It was based on actual events though, so you'd expect it to be textbook really. It's not like they can throw in a surprise ending or something. However, I think the writing and acting are still top notch in the film. It's one of my favorite sports movies actually.

Like some others have said, I really liked A League of Their Own, She's the Man, We Are Marshall, Miracle and Glory Road to name a few. I'm actually a big fan of sports movies for some reason.

The Water Boy!

Boston: You are dead on right about Remember the Titans -- it's based on a true story and yet not one believable thing happens in the entire movie. The worst part is Will Patton's daughter, the 8 year old girl with the preternatural knowledge of football.

Friday Night Lights is an even better TV series and the book is just brilliant.

Innerathlete: I think Tin Cup is a great sports film, it's totally true to its character and offers a really cool "big game" finale that totally subverts the cliches of sports movies.

Raging Bull is probably the best sports film ever.

Raging Bull
Brian's Song (regularly turns up as one of the few movies that can make any man cry)
Bang the Drum Slowly
Pride of the Yankees (yeah, i like the sad stories)
Slapshot
Eight Men Out (can you tell i'm from chicago?)
Rocky IV (At that time in my life i thought Dolph Lundgren was the epitome of hot)
Fear Strikes Out (the Jimmy Piersall story, starring Anthony Perkins)

HAHA, "Over the Top"...what a GREAT movie. Winning back your son in an arm wrestling match. Classic.

Others.

8 Seconds
A League of Their Own
Shaolin Soccer
Bring it On (All of them)
Stick It

irishkcguy saidBoston: You are dead on right about Remember the Titans -- it's based on a true story and yet not one believable thing happens in the entire movie. The worst part is Will Patton's daughter, the 8 year old girl with the preternatural knowledge of football.

Friday Night Lights is an even better TV series and the book is just brilliant.

Yes, the little girl ruins the entire movie.

Friday Night Lights is a better TV series, but the second season was a little bit of a downer. Because of an actual timeline they need to constantly introduce new players as the years go by.

In HS my swim team used to watch 8 seconds before big meets. Cowboy up!

What about Vision Quest?

Benchwarmers was funny too...

Rudy
Remember the Titans
Sandlot (not really a sports movie...but baseball was a major theme)
Friday Night Lights
Ali
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Caddyshack (hahahahaha...serious comedy)
Any Given Sunday
A League of Their Own (yeah...somewhat of a sporty chick flick...but still good)
Karate Kid (kind of corny...but you all can't deny that you probably quoted Mr. Miagi at some time or another)
White Men Can't Jump
The Hurricane

Remember the Titans
A League of Their Own
Radio
We Are Marshall
Waterboy
Ladybugs
Rookie of the Year
Invincible
Gridiron Gang

List could go on and on.

BostonBryan saidFriday Night Lights is a better TV series, but the second season was a little bit of a downer. Because of an actual timeline they need to constantly introduce new players as the years go by.

Yeah, I was just talking about this with a client of mine - FNL really needs a rotating cast a la "ER" to work. At this point, it's getting ridiculous how many of the main characters have mysteriously been juniors for three years. The second season blew compared to the perfect first season but I'm hoping the new deal with DirecTV for a 13-episode third season will bring it back into prime shape.

The one sporty_g posted of the Australian rugby team.

Rocky

Breaking Away

Pride of the Yankees

and -- the undisputed winner --

RAGING BULL

as close to genius as American films get

Anyone see the Korean film 3Iron?

Excellent.

Rudy
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Friday Night Lights

Besides a bunch mentioned above... a personal favorite of mine is:
Any Given Sunday

oh... what about The Sandlot?

Happy Gilmore ("The price is wrong bitch!")

A League of their Own

The Natural (one of the best baseball movies I've ever seen)

From my younger years - The Mighty Ducks. Over all pretty much like all sports movies, some of my favorites:

Million Dollar Baby
We Are Marshall
Invincible
Goal (1 & 2, though 1 was better)
Pride

P.S. LOL RBY, The Water Boy was a chick flick disguised as a sports movie. Luvd it too anyway. LOL

I was born and raised in Philly so I am gonna have to go with Rocky.

Breaking Away
Rocky
Chariots of Fire
Rudy
We Are Marshall
Invincible

Honorable Mentions
Cinderella Man
Karate Kid
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid is just too cute)

Notice a common theme?

Brian's Song is just too much of a tear jerker.

I have yet to see Raging Bull.

"ROCKY"

"BRIAN'S SONG"

"WE ARE MARSHALL"

"MILLION DOLLAR BABY"

"BAD NEWS BEARS"

"CHARIOTS OF FIRE"

"JERRY MAGUIRE"

"FIELD OF DREAMS"

"THE KARATE KID"

Oh, come on -- no one has mentioned The Cutting Edge?

My list:
MIRACLE (only two other mentions of this??)

Tin Cup

Bull Durham

Friday Night Lights

Any Given Sunday

Hoop Dreams

Two Days in April (documentary)

irishboxers saidOh, come on -- no one has mentioned The Cutting Edge?

My list:
MIRACLE (only two other mentions of this??)

Oh man I don't know how I forgot that one. Probably one of the few true movies, that the real story was more amazing than the movie. I remember watching those games and THE GAME, and then the anticlimatic game against the Swedish Team in the gold medal round, which was no cake walk, but after beating the Russians...well they (team USA) were just invincible. Didn't hurt that there were a bunch of local boys on the squad too.

Another Olympic one that I enjoyed was Smooth Running...story of the Jamaican Bobsled team. Funny but poignant. I love the guy(s) who never has a chance, but manages to overcome and at least succeed in some small (and sometimes big) way.

shoelessj saidBrian's Song (regularly turns up as one of the few movies that can make any man cry)

ChrisY saidBrian's Song is just too much of a tear jerker.

CuriousJockAZ said"BRIAN'S SONG"

Was wondering how long before someone mentioned Brian's Song. Yes, a real tear jerker but a great movie. I think it brings it all home and the fact that it has been around for so many years just reminds me of what a classic it it and how important to keep everything in perspective. The younger guys should watch it if they haven't, it's worth the time, tears and all!

Rudy and A Field of Dreams.

Hoosiers, don't know how anyone can think that movie is over rated. It is the classic tale of how an underdog wins the big game. We will never see anything like it again at the high school level due to the different class systems that states have put into place.

Lagaan (who knew a 3 hour movie about cricket could be entertaining?)

The Mighty Ducks

Cool Runnings (which I think is probably John Candy's last great film... his last two? ew. Plus, it's the rare movie where the team made up of a bunch of unlikely winners DOESN'T win in the end.)

Blackbeard's Ghost (gotta love those old cheesey Disney comedies...)

Battlefield Baseball

Waterboys (does synchronized swimming count?)

A League of Their Own

For most favorite? My MVP of movies goes to

Rudy.

And the waterworks always start as he takes the field at the end of the movie.

*sniffle*

What, it's something in my eye. Dammit.

I'll go along with "Breaking Away". The rest are Hollywood schlock!.

Coach

And Jerry Maguire isn't a "sports" movie. It's about money!
Coach

Rocky 4, Rudy, A league of their own, and yes ill say it, Bring it On.

Good movies on here...my top five:

Million Dollar Baby
Bring it On
Rudy
A League of Their Own
Running Brave [Robbie Benson so yummy]

- David

I have to say this about A League of Their Own: Tom Hanks is flat out brilliant in it. Of all his screen work, I really think this is the most underrated thing he has done. He is a great comedic actor and he has 3 or 4 scenes in this film that are hysterical. If the HORRIBLE framing device could be cut from the beginning and end of the film and somehow Rosie could be digitally removed from it, I would like it much more.

I am on board with Miracle as well. Is there a more underrated actor than Kurt Russell? The guy was Stuntman Mike! And Snake Plisskin.

The Natural, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own, The Longest Yard (original one), Jim Thorpe: All American. Oh also Radio , I really liked Cuba Gooding Jr. in that. Heaven Can Wait / Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Yeah I know some of those are not really hardcore sports movies but I liked them and they are related.