If you could have dinner with four people, would Mr. Miyagi be one of them? Do you yell "Put it in the face!" at halftime of basketball games? Does the term "laces out" mean anything to you?
If so, you're the perfect audience for my most ambitious piece on ESPN.com, the Top 100 Sports Movie Quotes.
This was a lot of fun — and a lot of work. I found out that coming up with the top 100 of anything is hard. It's also the most subjective thing ever written, so I'm getting a ton of "Great list, but you missed..." e-mails.
It's currently No. 1 on ESPN.com's index of most-e-mailed articles, as was my Seinfeld sports moments piece last November. I just hope people aren't e-mailing to their friends the article with a note that says, "Check out what this dick has to say..."
Other Sports-and-Movies Links:
• A Compilation of Best Sports Movies Lists — Includes top-50 lists from Sports Illustrated and the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, as well as top-25s from ESPN.com's Page 2 and Total Flim magazine. Each were compiled before Million Dollar Baby was released.
• ESPN.com Page 2's Top 20 Sports Movies of All Time — Includes individual pages for each movie, with highlights and comments from the staff.
• Sports Illustrated's Greatest Sports Movies — With links to original SI reviews as they appeared in the magazine when the movies were released.
• Box Covers and Synopses of All Baseball Movies — Well, there's 59 movies here, and if The Comrades of Summer is included, I'm guessing it's got all of them.
• Bull Durham Sucks — Hey, an ESPN.com writer agrees with me. I thought it was good, not great. Maybe because I saw it 17 years after people have been raving about how amazing it is. I'll tell ya one thing: those baseball scenes were not realistic. Nuke reminded me nothing of a great prospect. He always looked like some gangly clown out there, not a gifted athlete.
Bull Durham is about baseball? I thought it was about Kevin Coster and sex. Shit.
Great piece in ESPN, but you missed... ;-)
Posted by lucy at March 13, 2005 1:25 PM