Episode 1

Broke Bonus Fara Depunere

air day: 2012-10-02

According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60 p.c of NBA gamers are broke inside 5 years of retirement. For 78 p.c of NFL gamers, it takes solely three years. Sucked into unhealthy investments, stalked by freeloaders, saddled with medical issues, and naturally vulnerable to exhibiting off, many professional athletes get shocked by harsh financial realities after years of dwelling the excessive life. Drawing surprisingly weak confessions from retired stars like Keith McCants, Bernie Kosar and Andre Rison, in addition to Marvin Miller, the previous government director of the MLB Players Association, this fascinating documentary digs into the psychology of males whose aggressive nature can carry them to victory on the sector and damage off it. Director Billy Corben (The U, Cocaine Cowboys, Limelight) paints a fancy image of the numerous forces that drain athletes’ financial institution accounts, putting among the blame on the tradition at massive whereas nonetheless holding these giants accountable for their very own hubris.

Episode 2

9.79*

air day: 2012-10-09

In the historical past of the Olympics, there’s by no means been an argument fairly like what ensued over the 100 meter race at Seoul in 1988. The match introduced collectively Carl Lewis (USA) and Ben Johnson (Canada) who had been fierce rivals. Lewis was generally known as a savvy careerist who grew to become an American hero on the earlier Los Angeles Olympics. Johnson was his chief rival, thought-about an underdog because of his restoration from a pulled hamstring. In lower than 10 seconds, Johnson edged out in entrance of Lewis to win the Seoul race. But that wasn’t the tip. Three days later, in a reversal of fortune, the Olympic committee introduced that Johnson had failed a drug take a look at, shedding his medal to Lewis in shame. A thriller nonetheless shrouds the race. Was Johnson distinctive in his drug utilization or merely the autumn man for a widespread follow? Six of the eight finalists within the 1988 race have since been implicated for medicine — though some nonetheless deny any wrongdoing.

Episode Three

There’s No Place Like Home

air day: 2012-10-16

On December 10, 2010, Sotheby’s auctioned off crucial historic doc in sports activities historical past: James Naismith’s authentic guidelines of basketball. There’s No Place Like Home is the story of 1 fan’s obsessive quest to win the artifact at public sale and produce the foundations “home” to Lawrence, Kansas, the place Naismith coached and taught for greater than 40 years.

Episode Four

Benji

air day: 2012-10-23

In 1984, 17-year-old Ben Wilson was a logo of every little thing promising about Chicago: a beloved, sweet-natured teenager from town’s fabled South Side, and America’s most gifted basketball prospect. His mindless homicide the day earlier than his senior season despatched ripples by Chicago and the nation.

Episode 5

Ghosts of Ole Miss

air day: 2012-10-30

In 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted in violence over integration and swelled with satisfaction over an unbeaten soccer crew. Mississippi native Wright Thompson explores the tumultuous occasions that proceed to form the state 50 years later.

Episode 6

You Don’t Know Bo

air day: 2012-12-08

Bo Jackson hit 500 ft. residence runs, ran over linebackers, and—for a brief interval—he was the very best athlete we had ever seen. You Don’t Know Bo takes a better take a look at the person and advertising marketing campaign that formed his legacy. More than 20 years later, myths and legends nonetheless encompass the famously press shy athlete, and his not possible feats nonetheless seize our collective creativeness.

Episode 7

Survive and Advance

air day: 2013-03-17

When the 1982-83 faculty basketball season started, Jim Valvano and his North Carolina State Wolfpack confronted excessive expectations with equally excessive aspirations. But with ten losses for the season, the Wolfpack’s solely hope of constructing the NCAA Tournament was to win the ACC Tournament and earn the convention’s computerized berth. Nine straight unbelievable event wins later over the likes of Sampson, Jordan, Olajuwon and Drexler, N.C. State had “survived and advanced” its technique to a nationwide championship. Director Jonathan Hock takes a poignant look by the eyes of senior captain Dereck Whittenburg at a dream fulfilled and explores what at instances has been a tragic and heartbreaking aftermath within the 30 years since.

Episode eight

Elway to Marino

air day: 2013-04-23

In the spring of 1983, the NFL might have been at its weakest level. The earlier season had been marred by a gamers strike, the upstart USFL was poaching star gamers and Al Davis was efficiently suing the league. But the momentum started to alter on April 26, 1983 – the day of the NFL Draft – when a brand new technology of superstars was poised to enter the league. Six quarterbacks have been chosen within the first spherical of that draft – nonetheless probably the most ever. Elway to Marino explores this landmark draft by the eyes of the gamers, head coaches, common managers, crew house owners and brokers who participated – together with Marvin Demoff, who represented each John Elway and Dan Marino, and stored a diary within the months main as much as probably the most dramatic draft day in NFL historical past. We’ll be taught the within story of the draft picks, the again room offers, and the stress between future Hall of Famers and the groups that chosen them.

Episode 9

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

air day: 2013-10-01

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau is 2013 documentary motion biography movie directed by Sam George.

Episode 10

Free Spirits

air day: 2013-10-08

Episode 11

No Mas

air day: 2013-10-15

Episode 12

Big Shot

air day: 2013-10-22

Episode 13

This is What They Want

air day: 2013-10-29

Episode 14

The Price Of Gold

air day: 2013-11-05

The world could not hold its eyes off two athletes on the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast, and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks earlier than the Olympics on Jan. 6, 1994 on the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the best knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, “Why, why, why?” As the weird “why” thriller unraveled, it was revealed that Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the assault together with his misfit mates to actually eradicate Kerrigan from the competitors. Now twenty years later, “The Price of Gold” takes a contemporary look by Harding’s turbulent profession and life on the spectacle that elevated the recognition determine skating and has Harding nonetheless going through questions over what she knew and when she knew it.

Episode 15

Youngstown Boys

air day: 2013-12-14

“Youngstown Boys” explores class and energy dynamics in faculty sports activities by the parallel, interconnected journeys of one-time dynamic working again Maurice Clarett and former elite head coach Jim Tressel. Clarett and Tressel emerged from reverse sides of the tracks in Youngstown, Ohio, after which joined for a magical season at Ohio State University in 2002 that produced the primary nationwide soccer championship for the college in over 30 years. Shortly thereafter, although, Clarett was suspended from faculty soccer and commenced a downward spiral that ended with a jail time period. Tressel continued at Ohio State for one other eight years earlier than his profession there additionally led to scandal.

Episode 16

The Price of Gold

air day: 2014-01-16

The world couldnt hold its eyes off two athletes on the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer – Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks earlier than the Olympics on Jan. 6, 1994 on the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the best knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, Why, why, why? As the weird why thriller unraveled, it was revealed that Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the assault together with his misfit mates to actually eradicate Kerrigan from the competitors. Now twenty years later, The Price of Gold takes a contemporary look by Hardings turbulent profession and life on the spectacle that elevated the recognition determine skating and has Harding nonetheless going through questions over what she knew and when she knew it.

Episode 17

Requiem for the Big East

air day: 2014-03-16

“Requiem For The Big East” explores the meteoric ascension of the Big East Conference and the way, in lower than a decade beneath the modern management of founder and commissioner Dave Gavitt, it grew to become probably the most profitable faculty sports activities league in America.

Told primarily by the lens of famed Big East coaches corresponding to Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca and John Thompson in addition to a few of its most iconic gamers corresponding to Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney, the movie chronicles the story of a rare group who rode the rivalries and successes of their groups to turn out to be family names. The Big East was a groundbreaking athletic and enterprise creation that encapsulated the period and area wherein it was born — from the toughness of the gamers and coaches hailing from among the Northeast’s most storied cities, to the executives and Wall Street brokers who thrived due to it.

Launched in 1979 — the identical yr that ESPN was born — the Big East used the burgeoning cable TV channel and the media as an entire to assist unfold its gospel and product to followers and future gamers throughout the nation. But “Requiem For The Big East” can be a story of change because the tremendous convention finally discovered itself in a brand new period combating for survival.

Episode 18

Bad Boys

air day: 2014-04-17

Few groups in skilled sports activities historical past elicit such a variety of feelings because the Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s and early ’90s. For some, the crew was heroic — made up of gritty, hard-nosed gamers who did not again down from anybody. And for others, it was precisely that trait — the willingness to do seemingly something to win — that made them the “Bad Boys,” the crew followers beloved to hate.

No drama is complete with out compelling characters, and the Bad Boys Pistons had a full forged. Viewers will see the numerous components that drove among the best — and most advanced — gamers in NBA historical past: Isiah Thomas, a deadly mixture of sweetness on the surface and toughness inside. In addition, the crew was characterised by the toughness of Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn; the quiet depth of Joe Dumars; the savvy and fearlessness of a younger Dennis Rodman; the comedian aid supplied by John Salley; and the combination of grit, professionalism and elegance possessed by coach Chuck Daly.

Sandwiched between the Lakers’ and Celtics’ dominance of the 1980s and the Bulls’ run within the 1990s, the Pistons’ two titles in 1989 and ’90 are sometimes considered as a transitional interval in NBA historical past, somewhat than a dynamic championship period in its personal proper. But for anybody who skilled the Bad Boys in motion, they greater than carved out their very own id, each within the league and in American widespread tradition. Now, viewers will lastly get the untold story behind some of the distinctive championship groups in NBA historical past.

Episode 19

Slaying the Badger

air day: 2014-07-22

Before Lance Armstrong, there was Greg LeMond, who’s now the primary and solely American to win the Tour de France. In this engrossing documentary, LeMond appears again on the pivotal 1986 Tour, and his more and more vicious rivalry with good friend, teammate and mentor Bernard Hinault. The reigning Tour champion and brutal competitor generally known as “The Badger,” Hinault “promised” to assist LeMond to his first victory, in return for LeMond supporting him within the earlier yr. But in a sport that purports to reward teamwork, it is actually each man for himself.

Episode 20

Playing for the Mob

air day: 2014-10-07

What occurs whenever you mix “Goodfellas” with faculty basketball? You get “Playing For The Mob,” the story of how mobster Henry Hill — performed by Ray Liotta within the 1990 Martin Scorsese traditional — helped orchestrate the fixing of Boston College basketball video games within the 1978-79 season. The particulars of that point-shaving scandal are revealed for the primary time on movie by the testimony of the gamers, the federal investigators and the precise fixers, together with Hill, who died shortly after he was interviewed. “Playing For The Mob” could also be set within the seemingly golden world of faculty basketball, however like “Goodfellas,” this can be a story of greed, betrayal and reckoning. Ultimately, they each share the identical message: With that a lot cash at stake, you may’t belief anyone.

Episode 21

The Day the Series Stopped

air day: 2014-10-14

Soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver began the ABC telecast for Game Three of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, the bottom started to shake beneath Candlestick Park. Even earlier than that second, this had promised to be a memorable matchup: the primary in 33 years between groups from the identical metropolitan space, a battle that includes larger-than-life characters and equally colourful fan bases. But after the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake rolled by, bringing loss of life and destruction, the Bay Area pulled collectively, and baseball took a backseat. Through archival footage, beforehand untold tales from gamers, officers, San Francisco and Oakland residents affected by the earthquake, and a scientific look again at what occurred under the earth, “The Day The Series Stopped” will revisit that evening 25 years in the past. The document ebook exhibits that the A’s swept the Giants, however that is turn out to be a footnote to the bigger story of the 1989 World Series.

Episode 22

When the Garden Was Eden

air day: 2014-10-21

In the early 1970s, America was being torn aside by the battle in Vietnam, with racial unrest within the streets and a mistrust of the White House. But there was a happier place the place males of various backgrounds confirmed folks what might occur whenever you labored collectively: Madison Square Garden. “When The Garden Was Eden” (based mostly on the ebook by Harvey Araton) explores the one championship years of the New York Knicks, after they made the NBA Finals in three out of 4 seasons, successful two titles. Stitched collectively by Red Holzman, the beforehand mediocre Knicks might need appeared an odd assortment of characters: a ahead from the rarefied air of Princeton (Bill Bradley), two gamers from the Jim Crow South (Willis Reed and Walt Frazier), a blue-collar man from Detroit (Dave DeBusschere), a pair of inner-city guards (Earl Monroe and Dick Barnett), even a mountain man from Deer Lodge, Montana (Phil Jackson). But by embracing their variations and using their strengths, they confirmed the NBA and the world what it was prefer to play as a crew. That they did it on the stage New York City supplied made all of it that a lot sweeter.

Episode 23

Brian and The Boz

air day: 2014-10-28

In some methods, Barry Switzer and Brian Bosworth have been made for one another. The Oklahoma coach and the linebacker he recruited to play for him have been each outsized personalities who delighted in thumbing their noses on the institution. And of their three seasons collectively (1984-86), the distinctive father-son dynamic resulted in 31 wins and two Orange Bowl victories, together with a nationwide championship, as Bosworth was awarded the primary two Butkus Awards. But Bosworth’s alter ego — “The Boz” — was taking on. Eventually, he went on a downward spiral and have become generally known as an NFL bust. In “Brian and The Boz,” the twin identities of Brian Bosworth are examined as he appears again on his life and passes on the teachings he is realized to his son.

Episode 24

Brothers in Exile

air day: 2014-11-04

Major League Baseball has been reworked by the inflow of Cuban gamers corresponding to Aroldis Chapman, Yasiel Puig and Jose Abreu. But a particular debt of gratitude is owed to 2 half-brothers, whose braveness twenty years in the past paved the best way for their stardom. “Brothers in Exile” tells the unimaginable story of Livan and Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, who risked their lives to get off the island. Livan left first, banking on his standing as the most popular younger prospect in Cuba, to defect through Mexico and signal with the Florida Marlins, for whom he quickly grew to become one of many youngest World Series MVPs in historical past in 1997. Staying behind was Orlando, who was banned from skilled baseball in Cuba for life as a result of he was suspected of getting helped Livan escape. Then, on Christmas 1997, an more and more annoyed and harassed Orlando left Cuba in a small boat. He was stranded on a abandoned island for days earlier than being picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard. Less than a yr later, “El Duque” was serving to pitch the New York Yankees to a world championship, finishing a very unlikely journey for two brothers who rode their arms to freedom and triumph.

Episode 25

Rand University

air day: 2014-11-11

Randy Moss has lengthy been an enigma identified for his brilliance on the soccer discipline and his issues off it. Sometimes there’s even been an intersection of these two qualities. “Rand University” will get to that crossing by going again to the place he got here from – Rand, West Virginia – and exploring what virtually derailed him earlier than he ever grew to become nationally identified for his extraordinary skills as a large receiver. After overcoming troubles with the legislation, shedding the alternatives to play at Notre Dame and Florida State after which reviving his enormously promising soccer profession at Marshall University, all that was good and troubling about Randy Moss materialized on the day of the 1998 NFL Draft. Twenty picks have been made earlier than the Minnesota Vikings chosen him within the first spherical. Based on what unfolded all through Moss’s NFL profession, the groups that handed on him might have had a combination of remorse and aid.

Episode 26

The U Part 2

air day: 2014-12-13

Produced in 2009 by ESPN for its “30 for 30” sequence, “The U” was a take a look at all that was good and unhealthy concerning the rise of the University of Miami’s soccer program within the 1980s. But that wasn’t the tip of the story. “The U Part 2” picks up the place the unique movie left off, with this system attempting to get better from the devastation left by NCAA sanctions and scandals that had some calling for the college to drop soccer. The Hurricanes rose from these ashes to win one other nationwide championship, solely to face new controversies when a booster used a Ponzi scheme to win favor with this system.

Episode 27

Of Miracles and Men

air day: 2015-02-08

The story of one of many biggest upsets in sports activities historical past has been instructed. Or has it? On a Friday night in Lake Placid, New York, a plucky band of American collegians shocked the vaunted Soviet nationwide crew, Four-Three within the medal spherical of the 1980 Winter Olympic hockey competitors. Americans could not assist however imagine in miracles that evening, and when the members of Team USA gained the gold medal two days later, they grew to become a crew for the ages.

But there was one other, unchronicled aspect to the “Miracle On Ice.” The so-called unhealthy guys from America’s ideological adversary have been in actuality good males and excellent gamers, cast into the Big Red Machine by the genius and keenness of Anatoli Tarasov. There was a motive they appeared unbeatable, particularly after routing the Americans in an exhibition the week earlier than the Winter Games started. And there was a sure disgrace in them having to reside the remainder of their lives with the outcomes of Feb. 22, 1980.

In the 30 for 30 movie “Of Miracles and Men,” director Jonathan Hock (“The Best That Never Was” and “Survive and Advance”) explores the scope of the “Miracle on Ice” by the Soviet lens. His intense concentrate on the sport itself provides it renewed suspense and a contemporary perspective. But the journey of the shocked Soviet crew did not start — or finish — in Lake Placid.

Episode 28

I Hate Christian Laettner

air day: 2015-03-15

Christian Laettner helped Duke win two nationwide titles in 4 straight journeys to the Final Four. He had appears, smarts and sport. So why has he been intensely disliked by so many for so lengthy?

Episode 29

Sole Man

air day: 2015-04-16

Sonny Vaccaro rose from Pennsylvania metal city roots to turn out to be some of the highly effective and influential males within the athletic shoe trade and in basketball.

Episode 30

Angry Sky

air day: 2015-06-08

The story of Nick Piantanida, a New Jersey pet retailer proprietor and truck driver whose love of parachuting and skydiving places him on a quest to interrupt the document for the very best recorded parachute soar.

Episode 1

Trojan War

air day: 2015-10-13

The rise and fall of USC Trojans soccer throughout Pete Carroll’s teaching tenure.

Episode 2

The Prince of Pennsylvania

air day: 2015-10-20

Explores the turbulent relationship between Olympic wrestling brothers Mark and Dave Schultz and their multimillionaire benefactor, John du Pont.

Episode 3

The Gospel According to Mac

air day: 2015-11-03

Examines Bill McCartney and his sometimes-controversial combination of soccer and evangelicalism as Colorado Buffaloes head coach within the 1990s, together with a nationwide championship.

Episode Four

Chasing Tyson

air day: 2015-11-10

Explores the years that Evander Holyfield spent making an attempt to rearrange his first battle with Mike Tyson

Episode 5

Four Falls Of Buffalo

air day: 2015-12-12

In 1989, the Buffalo Bills had been a gifted workforce full of huge personalities — together with future Hall of Famers Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed. Dysfunction and in-fighting ran as deep because the expertise of their locker room., however the workforce referred to as “The Bickering Bills” would quickly rework themselves into an elite drive.

From 1990-1993, the Bills went on an unprecedented run of AFC Championship victories, showing in a report 4 straight Super Bowls. Of course, that is not what the Bills are principally remembered for. This is the story of a workforce that went down in historical past not for herculean achievement of constructing 4 straight Super Bowls, however for shedding all of them.

Episode 6

The ’85 Bears

air day: 2016-02-04

A glance again on the 1985 Chicago Bears, a workforce constructed on ferocious protection, with large personalities who shuffled to a Super Bowl title. Jim McMahon, Mike Ditka, Mike Singletary, Buddy Ryan and William Perry are amongst these showing. Directed by Jason Hehir, with government producers Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley.

Episode 7

Fantastic Lies

air day: 2016-03-13

A documentary examination of the accusations of sexual misconduct in opposition to the Duke University lacrosse workforce that had been finally discovered to be baseless

Episode eight

This Magic Moment

air day: 2016-04-14

A have a look at the Shaquille O’Neal-led Orlando Magic groups of the 1990s and the way they fell wanting an NBA title.

Episode 9

Believeland

air day: 2016-05-14

The movie shares with viewers among the highs, lows and most unforgettable moments in Cleveland sports activities historical past over the previous 50 years. Believeland contains interviews from celebrities, public figures and former athletes with connections to town.

Episode 10

O.J.: Made in America, Episode 1

air day: 2016-06-11

It is probably the defining cultural story of 20th-century America, one which facilities on two of our nation’s best fixations: race and superstar. This five-part collection will discover these themes in tracing the private journey of Orenthal James Simpson.

Episode 11

O.J.: Made in America, Episode 2

air day: 2016-06-14

It is probably the defining cultural story of 20th-century America, one which facilities on two of our nation’s best fixations: race and superstar. This five-part collection will discover these themes in tracing the private journey of Orenthal James Simpson.

Episode 12

O.J.: Made in America, Episode 3

air day: 2016-06-15

It is probably the defining cultural story of 20th-century America, one which facilities on two of our nation’s best fixations: race and superstar. This five-part collection will discover these themes in tracing the private journey of Orenthal James Simpson.

Episode 13

O.J.: Made in America, Episode Four

air day: 2016-06-17

It is probably the defining cultural story of 20th-century America, one which facilities on two of our nation’s best fixations: race and superstar. This five-part collection will discover these themes in tracing the private journey of Orenthal James Simpson.

Episode 14

O.J.: Made in America, Episode 5

air day: 2016-06-18

It is probably the defining cultural story of 20th-century America, one which facilities on two of our nation’s best fixations: race and superstar. This five-part collection will discover these themes in tracing the private journey of Orenthal James Simpson.

Episode 15

Doc & Darryl

air day: 2016-07-14

Reunited at a diner in Queens, the pitcher and the facility hitter look again on the glory days of the mid-80s and the harrowing nights that turned them from surefire Hall of Famers into prisoners of their very own addictions.

Episode 16

Phi Slama Jama

air day: 2016-10-18

They had been the most well-liked fraternity on the campus of faculty basketball within the early 1980s. Led by a Nigerian soccer participant named Hakeem Olajuwon and a evenly recruited hometown child named Clyde Drexler, the University of Houston Cougars not solely electrified the NCAA Final Four with three straight appearances (1982-84), however in addition they helped rework the sport itself. In this 30 for 30 movie, director Chip Rives (“Brian and The Boz”) brings again the high-flying circus act below ringmaster Guy V. Lewis and spins a story of true greatness and crushing heartbreak. But whereas exploring that bigger narrative, Rives additionally focuses on the disappearance of enigmatic function participant Benny Anders and the lasting brotherhood that compels teammates and 1981-82 co-captains Eric Davis and Lynden Rose to attempt to discover him after greater than 20 years of thriller.

Episode 17

Hit It Hard

air day: 2016-11-01

If skilled golf had been put to nation music, then the track can be about John Daly. Ever since he shocked the sports activities world by successful the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick 25 years in the past, the blond bomber from Dardanelle, Arkansas has been one of many most-popular and polarizing figures in a sport that cherishes its traditions and minds its manners. In this revealing and rollicking 30 for 30 movie, administrators Gabe Spitzer and David Fine cowl Daly’s rise and fall, his redemption at The Open in St. Andrews in 1995, and his struggles with booze, meals, playing, girls and despair. They additionally uncover an individual whose story runs a lot deeper than his motto of “Sip It, Grip It, Rip It.”

Episode 18

Catholics Vs Convicts

air day: 2016-12-10

On October 15, 1988, Notre Dame hosted the University of Miami in what was arguably one of many best video games in school soccer historical past. It was custom vs. swagger, the No. Four-ranked Fighting Irish versus the No. 1-ranked Hurricanes, one teaching star, Lou Holtz, versus one other, Jimmy Johnson. But the identify nonetheless hooked up to the competition got here from a t-shirt manufactured by a couple of Notre Dame college students: “Catholics vs. Convicts.” In this documentary for ESPN Films’ acclaimed 30 For 30 collection, director and narrator Patrick Creadon (Wordplay, I.O.U.S.A.) does not simply look again on this epic recreation. He explores the deeper narrative as a Notre Dame senior on the time, a detailed pal to the younger males in the midst of the “Catholics vs. Convicts” controversy (Joe Fredrick and Pat Walsh) and a fellow classmate of the participant behind heart for the Fighting Irish (quarterback Tony Rice). He will get the coaches and the gamers to open up concerning the battle that began the sport, the extremely debatable calls which can be nonetheless being talked about and the insensitive features of the irresistibly common t-shirt. As compelling as the story of Notre Dame’s dramatic victory is — even shedding quarterback Steve Walsh calls it “a helluva ballgame” — the backstory is simply as riveting.

Episode 19

This Was the XFL

air day: 2017-02-02

Episode 20

One and Not Done

air day: 2017-04-13

Who is John Calipari? To his devotees, he’s one among school basketball’s best coaches. To his detractors, he represents all the things fallacious with school sports activities. Somewhere in between lies some of the compelling and complex figures in American sports activities. “One and Not Done” chronicles the lifetime of Calipari – from highschool level guard, to dominating UMass coach, to king of Kentucky. A person who has not solely altered the school basketball panorama and turn out to be the face of the so-called “One and Done” phenomenon, however has additionally had two Final Four appearances vacated and developed as a coach who at one level needed to rebuild his profession.

Episode 21

Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies (1)

air day: 2017-06-11

Episode 22

Celtics Lakers Best of Enemies Part 2

air day: 2017-06-13

Part 2 of 3. The Celtics-Lakers rivalry ramps up within the 1984 Finals as a forged of characters–led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson–who modified the NBA lastly went head-to-head for a title. Directed by Jim Podhoretz and produced by Jonathan Hock.

Episode 23

Celtics Lakers Best of Enemies Part 3

air day: 2017-06-14

Conclusion of a have a look at the 1980s Celtics-Lakers rivalry, specializing in the three years after the 1984 NBA Finals, because the groups’ disdain for one another progressively turns to respect whereas assembly in two extra Finals. From filmmakers Jim Podhoretz and Jon Hock.

Episode 24

Mike and the Mad Dog

air day: 2017-07-13

Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, and their “Mike and the Mad Dog” present dominated afternoon sports activities discuss for 19 years. When all was stated and performed, they modified sports activities radio eternally.

Episode 25

Baltimore Boys

air day: 2017-08-08

Future NBA gamers rise to prominence at Dunbar High, situated in a troubled Baltimore neighborhood within the 1980s. Despite that setting, David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues and Reggie Lewis all persevere and attain the NBA.

Episode 26

What Carter Lost

air day: 2017-08-26

There’s highschool soccer, after which there’s Texas highschool soccer. Oddly sufficient although, one of many best groups in state historical past has been misplaced to time… and destiny. What Carter Lost, directed by Adam Hootnick for ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 collection, is the saga of that workforce, the 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys. With 21 gamers who had been supplied school scholarships and a number of other who went on to the NFL, Carter took on one of the best that Texas needed to supply – together with the Odessa Permian workforce that impressed Friday Night Lights – in addition to the worst, in a racially charged state-wide dispute over one participant’s algebra grade and Carter’s legitimacy. Somehow, Carter managed to win all of it on the sector, and someway, they threw all of it away. Perhaps it was the Dallas police officer and Carter fan who stated it greatest after his actions ended a string of crimes that shocked the Carter trustworthy to their core: “Why would you do this?” Years later, it’s a query that also has no simple reply, however by searing interviews with Carter gamers, coaches and relations, in addition to glimpses of their lives immediately, this movie is finally about what Carter discovered.

Episode 82

30 for 30 Shorts: The Guerrilla Fighter

air day: 2016-12-23

Alexis Arguello is taken into account by many to be the best junior light-weight of the 20th century and arguably the largest hero Nicaragua has ever had. But as this 30 for 30 Short particulars, there was much more to his life than simply boxing. When the communist Sandinistas took management of the Nicaraguan authorities, Arguello went again to battle for his nation. After an ironic flip the place he ended up campaigning with the Sandinistas, one factor remained clear: Arguello was at all times involved first with serving to his folks.