Reviews of sports DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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Draft Day (Blu-ray Review) 22 Aug, 2014
The film’s gamut of potential Draft Day scenarios a team could face may veer into the realm of...More>>
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Trials of Muhammad Ali, The (DVD Review) 26 Apr, 2014
'The Trials of Muhammad Ali' is not your average sports documentary in that it doesn’t focus on...More>>
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Signature Sounds: The Music of WWE (DVD Review) 24 Apr, 2014
The fact that WWE’s in-house countdown DVD of the company’s top 25 theme songs manages to omit...More>>
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Side Out (DVD Review) 3 Apr, 2014
Combining the simplistic character beats of a teen angst comedy with the clichéd plotting of a...More>>
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Glickman (DVD Review) 3 Mar, 2014
This HBO documentary is a two-pronged affair that deals first with Marty Glickman’s own success...More>>
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Armstrong Lie, The (Blu-ray Review) 10 Feb, 2014
This portrait of a charismatic sociopath whose charisma is fully captured here is the next thing to...More>>
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History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment, The (Blu-ray Review) 23 Dec, 2013
This retrospective knows how to turn on the nostalgia, and letting the unmistakable voice of Keith...More>>
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Rising From Ashes (DVD Review) 8 Dec, 2013
Documentary 'Rising From Ashes' is more than a glimpse of Rwanda 12 years after conflict between...More>>
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New York Yankees 2000 World Series: Collector’s Edition, The (DVD Review) 28 Oct, 2013
Both Yankees fans and cultural historians will get a kick out of this set, though it’s a step...More>>
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Branca's Pitch (DVD Review) 14 Oct, 2013
There’s a brief moment in this unusual baseball documentary when its subject — former Brooklyn...More>>
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42 (Blu-ray Review) 11 Jul, 2013
The film is a well-polished production that covers the basics of Jackie Robinson joining the...More>>
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Big Leaguer (DVD Review) 10 Sep, 2012
As the script has it, Edward G. Robinson’s continued employment as the New York Giants manager...More>>
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Ballplayer: Pelotero (DVD Review) 4 Sep, 2012
The documentary, narrated by John Leguizamo and executive produced by Bobby Valentine, gives a...More>>
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News
Olympics Movie to Be BBC's First UV-Enabled Title 27 Jun, 2012
BBC Home Entertainment’s first UltraViolet-enabled title will be the movie 'Going for Gold: The...More>>
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'ESPN 30 for 30' Blu-ray Re-released for Father’s Day 7 May, 2012
In time for Father’s Day, Team Marketing June 5 will re-release award-winning series 'ESPN 30 for...More>>
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Easy Living (DVD Review) 7 May, 2012
This 1949 pro football movie originated as an Irwin Shaw story; was adapted by 'The Bad and the...More>>
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American Experience: Jesse Owens (DVD Review) 30 Apr, 2012
Jesse Owens’ down days dealing with racism in America get covered here, but the bulk deals with a...More>>
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Moneyball (Blu-ray Review) 6 Jan, 2012
'Moneyball' isn’t a conventional baseball movie, but it’s a good one, and one of 2011’s best...More>>
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2011 Official World Series Film/St. Louis Cardinals 2011 World Series Collector's Edition (DVD Review) 12 Dec, 2011
The full evidence of how good this one was (20-hour running times have a way of making a case) is...More>>
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ESPN Films Collection Vol. 1 (DVD Review) 7 Dec, 2011
The collection represents the first batch of films that didn’t make it into ESPN’s “30 for...More>>
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