Bull Durham

... and ...

The Fish that Saved Pittsburg ... but only b/c Dr. J is in it. =)

Hoosiers, Rudy, Rocky (Rocky II my personal fav).

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Miracle

Rudy

Miracle

Seabiscuit

Miracle

Brian's Song

Hoosiers

Rocky I-IV

(Worst sports movies: Rocky V, Blue Chips, Major League II)

These are hard to answer off the cuff, but some good ones

Cycling - Breaking Away

Golf - Caddy Shack

Hockey - Slap Shot

Football - Remember the Titans, The Longest Yard, Brian's Song

Baseball - Field of Dreams

Basketball - Hoosiers

Boxing - Ragging Bull, Rocky I

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People I've loved, I have no regrets
Some I remember, some I forget
Some of them living, some of them dead
All I want is to be home ".....Foo Fighters, Home

Miracle is the only answer.

Miracle

Vision Quest

Dogtown and Z-boys

The Search for Animal Chin

Riding Giants

Caddyshack

The Natural

Blue Crush

The Natural

Bang the Drum Slowly

Dead Solid Perfect

Slapshot

North Dallas 40

8 Men Out

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caddyshack

slapshot

happy gilmore

Field of Dreams

any given sunday

he got game

A little known movie-- Long gone. Its a baseball movie about a minor league team in Florida in the 50s. Stars William Peterson (from CSI) Virginia Madsen (oscar nominated this year) and Dermot Mulroney. Pretty good film-- made in the late 80s ---

Breaking Away
Miracle
Hoosiers
Slapshot
Quicksilver (OK not that great, but good bike messerger scene with 80s olympian Nelson Vails)

Breaking Away

Jericho Mile

Chariots of Fire

Longest Yard

Brian's Song

CaddyShack / Happy Gilmore

Rocky I-III

Pulp Fiction (Travolta wears a UCSB Banana Slug BBall T-Shirt)

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

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"Knowledge is good" - Emil Faber

you can't beat the panty sniffing scene in Vision Quest, plus wrestling

prefontaine
without limits
days of thunder
blue crush
cutting edge

Agreed - Long Gone was quite good.

Her character's name was something like Dixie Mae Boxx, right? hahaha, that's classic. I almost felt like Bull Durham was a ripoff of this.

Breaking Away

Bull Durham

The Natural

Seabiscuit

Slapshot

Longest Yard

Field of Dreams

Caddyshack

I really hafta watch Miracle all the way thru, kept having to step away from it after just a few minutes each time it was on.

Hoosiers is also great, but, I didn't like it for a long time, since the Hoosiers beat my 'Cuse in the '87 hoops title game. Keith Smart, I hope he rots in Hell - haha!

Can you call Touching The Void a "sports movie"?

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Hoosiers

Breaking Away

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned - won't make for an inspirational trainer ride, but a great movie: Hoop Dreams - documentary about two inner-city Chicago kids and their dream of making it to the NBA.

What ever happened to the IMAX about tyler?

Gotta go with Miracle. I just watched the actual game on tape a few nights ago while on the trainer. They did a great job of recreating the game as it happened. There was no need to "Hollywoodize" that game.

You are right-- exvept that it was Dixie Lee Box-- but good memory

Rebound: The legend of Earl "the Goat" Manigault.

Who remembers "One on One", with what's his name.......Robbie Benson???

I must have watched that a thousand times on HBO when I was a kid......

"Up yours coach, I can go anywhere I want"

The coach (G.D. Spradlin?) was one of those character actors that always played the mean guy, (coach, prison warden etc.)

Caddyshack's the most popular comedy choice - but doesn't Bad News Bears have to be right up there with it?

As far as drama, Raging Bull has to be tops, and it might also be one of the flat-out greatest pieces of cinema ever.....

Most already listed...

Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Blue Crush, any Warren Miller flick, The Long Run, Happy Gilmore, Hoosiers.

I found the Long Run to be pretty motivational, I was training for my first ultra at the time...

AP

Absolutely Vision Quest. I got the DVD for Xmas and watch the final match before hammer sessions all the time. Used to watch it the night before HS wrestling matches.

"Louden Swain: I'm gonna drop down to 168 and wrestle Schute
Kuch: SCHUTE? Schute's a monster! A genuine geratoid! His own father has to use a livewire to keep him from f*ckin' the fireplace!"

Awesome.

I also loved Sea Biscuit.

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"He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame."

-Call of the Wild

Friday Night Lights (brought back memories, cried like a baby)

Rocky

Major League (funny with a great ending)

Hoosiers

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The true Master does not wish to lead,
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He only wishes to place himself
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"Search for Animal Chin" - Nice!!! A throwback to my ol' skateboard days. Man, we watched that video every day when we were young punks...

Without Limits was great.

Breaking Away was the first video I ever owned.

If you like Seabiscuit, rent "Phar Lap" but bring the kleenex.

Loved the fact that both Cutting Edge (DB Sweeney and Moira Kelley - "Toe Pick") and Blue Crush made people's lists.

My wife and I were the oldest people in the theater the day Blue Crush came out.

Varsity Blues has to make the list too.

'Endurance'

A Disney film about track star Haile Gebresellassie (sp?)

Simple and beautiful. I lived in E. Africa for 2 1/2 years, so that's part of why I like it so much.

I sense a theme here ... You left out Endless Summer, Big Wednesday, Slippery When Wet and all those great Bones Brigade videos ...

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Rollerball

Death Race 2000

Endless Summer

They count right?

You guys hit all my favorites already. The only one I would add to the list is Mystery, Alaska. Great hockey movie.

At the risk of getting flambe`d, I'd also subtract Vision Quest.

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How could you not Pick Million Dollar Baby? It was great! xx

Chariots of Fire
Without Limits
Touching the void (http://www.pathefilms.co.uk/touching_the_void/) GREAT
K2
Rocky
The Golf one with K. Costner and R. Russo

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Richard

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever" - Larry Andersen

How was Prefontaine? I saw Without limits and liked it. Is Prefontaine worth buying?

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Richard

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever" - Larry Andersen

Major League. No question.

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What, nobody liked The Hard Road? We must be living in the golden age of documentary film making. 3 I've seen (and enjoyed) lately--Hard Road, Dogtown/Z-Boys and Riding Giants. The common theme that really stood out to me is that the people featured in these films were willing to adopt an alternative lifestyle to follow their passions.

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"You can't hold your mud. You're a bleeder and I like blood."

All the obvious great ones have already been listed. I would add Hidalgo and another wrestling movie much lesser known than Vision Quest called "Takedown". I would be pretty darn impressed if anybody else saw Takedown.

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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur

raging bull and bad news bears

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Prefontaine is apparently more accurate in some of the minor details that mega-Pre fans are into, but having seen them both (and owning Prefontaine) I have to say Without Limits is a much better movie, better acting, and more fun to watch. Even though Jared Leto looks more like Pre then Billy Crudup does.



As for my favorite sports movies:

The Sandlot

Any Given Sunday

Remember the Titans

The Road to Paris (The Nike DVD about Lance from ~2001)

Aspen Extreme

Hot Dog - The Movie

Ski Patrol

Anything by Warren Miller or Greg Stump!

A few not mentioned yet:
Tin Cup and White Men Can’t Jump (Ron Shelton was born to make great sports movies).
Personal Best (and not just for Mariel Hemmingway’s bisexual romps. This was Robert Townes first film and it has all of his usual intelligent script with great race footage and real athletes filling most roles.)

I'm surprised Cerveloguy hasn't started talking about "Youngblood" yet.

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Also surprised that nobody has mention The Natural

I was wondering around in Target yesterday looking for laundry detergent and noticed there is a new 2-DVD Special Edition of Chariots of Fire out, So I picked it up and forgot the detergent. They remastered the sound and restored the widescreen from th VHS version. It's mighty impressive I have to say and at the top of my list. Along with:

American Flyers

Prefontaine

Sportsnight TV Series DVDs -- close enough I say

Friday Night Lights was probably my fave of all time. Even though I'm not a football type of guy the movie itself was quite good.

friday night lights.



it was amazing.



basically summed up most of my football career, and gave me a lot of things to think about.



there are a few others out there as well that are good...but that one is recent and i really enjoyed it.

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