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I just recently watched The Real Rocky, and that was a pretty interesting study about fame and how it can be both a boon and a curse. I hadn't watched that one when it aired, since the airing schedule for the docs they made after the original 30 for 30 run was very random. I'm not sure how many people even saw this one. Same goes for the one about the trans tennis player, who obviously had a pretty rough life since she played pro tennis in the 1970s. I enjoyed Small Potatoes, since I wasn't around when the USFL was a thing, and it was interesting to see how well a minor league did at that time, even stealing some future HOFers away from the NFL for a time. But of course Trump has to ruin everything he touches and sued the NFL.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2012 20:21 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:13 |
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They should have done one about Dock Ellis' LSD perfect game when he was still alive. That Steinbrenner doc was disappointing to me, because originally I thought it was pitched as more of a story about Steinbrenner himself. But then he died and 90% of that doc was about New Yankee Stadium, which I could give a crap about.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 18:25 |
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Here is the schedule for the upcoming 30 for 30 'Round II': October 2nd: 'Broke' (about athletes and financial troubles. Subjects include Bernie Kosar, Andre Rison, and Cliff Floyd) October 9th: '9.79' (about Ben Johnson breaking the speed record and then getting busted for doping) October 16th: 'There's No Place Like Home' (about a man trying to purchase the original Naismith 'Rules of Basketball' at a Sotheby's auction so that he can return them to Naismith's home down of Lawrence, Kansas) October 23rd: 'Benji' (about Ben Wilson, a major HS basketball prospect who was murdered in 1984 shortly before his senior season) October 30th: 'Ghosts of Ole Miss' (about the integration in 1962 at the University of Mississippi and their unbeaten football team) December 8th: 'You Don't Know Bo' (about Bo Jackson and what he's been doing since he retired, or something)
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 18:36 |
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ozymandius1024 posted:Cliff Floyd has been retired since 2010, and he made over 53 million dollars in his career
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 19:58 |
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I believe that the Bo documentary has already aired before at a few public screenings, and the buzz has been generally positive.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 21:04 |
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pfunkdaddy posted:Hoss Radbourn or Rube Waddell
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 03:43 |
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Niwrad posted:Are the HBO docs part of HBOGO? Been teetering on the fence about getting HBO and that might take me over the edge.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2012 21:50 |
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There's a good book about him, but I would like to see a thorough documentary about Moe Berg, a former journeyman catcher for several teams in the 1930s who spied on Japan during the 1934 Tour of Japan that several HOFers were on. He later worked for the OSS in South America during WWII and maybe briefly the CIA later. A lot of his life is still a mystery, as he was a secretive and reclusive person who didn't have much of a family and drifted around later in life.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2012 02:43 |
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Billy Corben (who directed 'The U') is leading off this next round of 30 for 30 episodes beginning this Tuesday at 8 PM Eastern with 'Broke'. There are new episodes almost every Tuesday all month.
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2012 04:49 |
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A new 30 for 30 is on tonight: 'Broke' at 8 PM EDT on ESPN
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2012 22:35 |
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I was surprised that during the segment about kids/women they managed to avoid any mention of Shawn Kemp and however many kids he has now.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2012 06:21 |
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The next 30 for 30, '9.79', is on tonight.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2012 23:37 |
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Even if he comes out with evidence against one of those guys, I doubt anything happens. They will claim that the samples were tainted or something. It's also kind of pointless now.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2012 21:55 |
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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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# ¿ Oct 11, 2012 16:40 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:13 |
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The majority of the 30 for 30s on Netflix are getting pulled off tonight at Midnight, so watch them while you still can.
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