Entries Tagged as 'movies'

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Last Action Heroes: Football Coaches as Action Movie Characters

As we head toward another football season, I can’t help but think we haven’t really been paying attention to the real heroes (or villains).
There is a man who takes all the responsibility for your team’s success and failure.  If he doesn’t get it done, the world could end for millions of fans.  It all rests […]

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Where’s Your Hall Pass?: NFL Players and Their High School Equivalents

With the NFL season just around the corner, I figured it would be a good time to get to know some of the players a little closely. As always, learning something is easiest when you relate it to something you already know.
Like high school archetypes. We’ve all seen the movies and TV shows that have […]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Silver Screen Steroid Scandal!

With more and more names coming out as steroid users in Major League Baseball, our childhood heroes keep taking shots to the image. Each day that poster of Ken Griffey Jr. that we bought at the swap meet when we were 13 gets more and more suspicious. So it’s time we woke up and faced […]

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Breaking News: TO Makes Plea for New Team

 
After reports have come out this morning that the Dallas Cowboys have severed ties with star WR Terrell Owens, we all wondered where his next stop would be.
Some thought that the Raiders would be the logical choice, given their penchant for big stars and drama. Others thought WR starved teams on the cusp of the […]

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Wrestling’s a Sport?: A Movie Review

Sometimes living in Los Angeles has it’s perks. Sometimes it sucks. The sucks times are when you really need to be somewhere and you are stuck on the free for hours because of a stupid fender bender THAT WON’T GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE DAMN LANE! The perky part is when a friend calls you […]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Thermo-Thursday

Where are all the Christmas movies on TV?  I’ve yet to see “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “It’s a Wonderful Life” and we’re half way through the December push.  If I have to resort to pulling out my Christmas movie collection on VHS I’m going to be upset.
Well, I’ve already thrown Charlie Brown in the […]

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Where Are They Now: The Forgotten Sandlot Characters

Having two premium movie channels (prestige!) is great because no matter what time you are plopped on the couch, there is probably something on that you will enjoy. Somehow, The Sandlot is always amongst the options. I swear I have watched this movie 5 times in the last year. Each time I come across it, […]

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

“Grow up, 007″: The MI6 of the sports world

I’m an avid James Bond fan.  So much so that I own 8 of Ian Fleming’s 13 original James Bond novels (sorry books, stories written down and bound together, a precursor to movies) in hardback.  Needless to say, the release of “Quantum of Solace” tomorrow has put me back in the “shaken, not stirred” frame […]