The impact that this player has had on the game, the media, and the entertainment industry is not measurable with words or numbers.
I, Tonya, which won a Golden Globe for supporting actress Allison Janney and since notched acting Oscar nominations for both Janney and Margot Robbie, has shown that there’s an appetite out there for nontraditional sports biopics, telling versions of stories that you thought you knew well, but telling them from a surprising or counter-intuitive angle.
Following the success of 'The Last Dance', it's a no-brainer that Earvin "Magic" Johnson would follow suit with his own docu-series following his Hall of Fame career.
Christmas Day 2001 saw the release of a full-on Hollywood biopic of the "Greatest of All Time," simply titled 'Ali.' Directed by Michael Mann and starring Will Smith, it didn't stray far from the sports biopic formula but it was executed to near-perfection.
With the season suspended indefinitely in Italy and many players stuck in limbo, Bobby Jones Jr. grabbed his camera and documented what it was like during the first week of the country's total lockdown.
'The Program' was about all of the "controversial" elements of college sports: Steroids, secret payments, academic fraud, sexual assault, and extremely creative in-game trash-talk.
In recent years, a seismic shift has occurred in the world of entertainment; esports has emerged as a global phenomenon, captivating millions of players and spectators alike.
Houston Astro's star outfielder Alex Bregman just announced that he's firing his agent, at least in part, due to a recently announced documentary on their sign stealing scandal produced by LeBron James' media company.
We're back with Mike Stefansson, a sports anchor, to talk about the impact of the pandemic on the sports world, the changing future of traditional sports journalsim, and my crazy journey home during the global lockdown.
Music has undoubtedly long been used by people as a source of inspiration and motivation, especially in the field of sports psychology.
The movie adaptation of Michael Lewis' bestselling book 'Moneyball,' reached screens in September of 2011, cementing its legacy and representing a landmark in films about baseball. But it didn't quite tell the whole story...
The six-part series, titled 'Colin in Black and White', features Kaepernick as the narrator and will focus on the quarterback's teenage years.
It's hard to think of another non-musical film in which the score is the best-known element, but 40 years on, 'Chariots of Fire' still holds up and is deserving of a reappraisal on its merits as an overall great film.
Two decades before Colin Kaepernick knelt for the National Anthem and set off the biggest sports controversy of the decade, there was Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the NBA, and 'Stand' sets out to do his story right.
'Bull Durham' arrived amid a wave of important baseball movies and 2 years before another Costner-led baseball film, but it was a very different take on the game than the others.
Exploring the niche but growing field of documentaries that cover the intersections of Judaism and baseball, and the stories and figures that spring forth from them.
While Michael Jordan is undoubtedly the most famous NBA player to ever get involved with movies, he definitely wasn’t the only one and also wasn’t the first.
Yes, there was an actual football game played at Super Bowl, but you may now know it from all the chatter about Rihanna. But that's nothing new, music has always had an immense impact in sports.
Let's explore the rise of sports streaming, the emerging online sports fandoms, and the new tech shaping our viewing experiences.
We're back and joined by JR JR to talk about their recently fully released Swish EP, their (and our) love for basketball, and all things NBA and the bubble playoffs just in time for the NBA finals.
'Hoosiers', released 35 years ago, is one of the most beloved sports movies of all time, but some of its tropes have been put to renewed scrutiny over the recent years. Does this classic still hold up?
'Open Ocean' is a new documentary directed by Nathan Siegel and featuring Didac Costa, which wonderfully captures the intense experience of competing in one of the most challenging and dangerous ocean races in the world – Vendée Globe.
As you can see we've made a couple of visual changes over here to stay in the spirit of the holidays (Halloween duh). You can thank Dáreece for the crazy artwork lol. But this is just a quick post from me; a while back LLF member Paul Supat, who has an awesome blog, sent a link to this video that he thought I'd like, and he was right. I said I was going to work it into a post and I finally did. It was a viral baseball video of a kid doing some incredible hitting, and it got me thinking about all of the awesome viral videos over the years there have been. I think they're a great marketing tool, regardless if they're real or not, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some living.life.fearless videos floating around in the near future...hmm...
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