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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Best Baseball Movie Ever?
Posted: 28th December 2009 by Alexis Orgera in MLB
I love baseball movies.
Field of Dreams still makes me cry (don't laughùI know you cry when Ray Kinsella has that catch with his dad). Bull Durham is that perfect Saturday afternoon dose of rivalry and sweetness. Then there are the historical dramas like Eight Men Out. So, when the American Film Institute recently released its selections for this year's top films, and a baseball movie called ...
Chasing the Perfect Storm: Blue Devil, Piston, and Celtic Style
Posted: 18th December 2009 by Alexis Orgera in NBA
A Retrospective
I've never watched basketball for the stats. I don't watch to see my hometown team make good. I watchùmaybe we all watchùbecause if I watch long enough, carefully enough, eventually a storm will rumble and crash into my living room. Eventually, I'll be in the presence of The Perfect Storm.
The Storm is pieces that add up to something greater than their sum. The Storm turns real time into slow ...