Give me your favorite sports movie by sport.

Baseball
Football
Basketball
Soccer
Hockey
Boxing
Auto Racing
Horse Racing
Figure Skating
Gymnastics
Bowling
Golf
Tennis
Cheerleading


My list:

Baseball - Eight Men Out
Football - Friday Night Lights
Basketball - Teen Wolf
Soccer - Mean Machine
Hockey - Miracle
Boxing - Raging Bull
Auto Racing - Rebel Without a Cause
Horse Racing - The Champ
Figure Skating - Ice Princess
Gymnastics - American Anthem
Bowling - Kingpin
Golf - Caddyshack
Tennis - Strangers on a Train
Cheerleading - American Beauty

Figure Skating: The Cutting Edge

Crack Smoking - New Jack City

Drivin in the South--Smokey and the Bandit

Poker--House of Games

Tin Cup is very high up on my favorite movies of all time. (Favorite in the watch-and-laugh rather than cinematic event sense.)

Baseball- I know it's hokey, but I cry at the end- Field of Dreams
Football- The Longest Yard (original)
Basketball- Hoop Dreams
Soccer- Bend it like Beckham
Hockey- Slap Shot
Boxing- Raging Bull
Auto Racing- Tallegeda Nights
Horse Racing- Seabiscuit
Figure Skating- Cutting Edge
Gymnastics- beats me
Bowling- Kingpin
Golf- Caddyshack
Tennis- beats me
Cheerleading- Bring it On (american beauty was NOT a cheerleading movie)

I don't think I've seen all that many sports movies. I think the only sports movies I've seen infact are:

Slapshot
Caddyshack
Remember the Titans
Invincible
Major League 1 & 2
Raging Bull


although, I think DD's defenition of a sports movie is pretty broad, I would not consider American Beauty a sports movie, By the same defenition could you consider pulp fiction a sports movie? What about snatch?

[quote="Drugs Delaney"]Give me your favorite sports movie by sport.

Baseball -- Bull Durham
Football -- Any Given Sunday
Basketball -- Hoosiers
Soccer -- N/A
Hockey -- N/A
Boxing -- Rocky (I couldn't sit through all of Raging Bull)
Auto Racing -- Days of Thunder? I can't think of any others offhand
Horse Racing -- Seabiscuit, by default
Figure Skating -- The Cutting Edge
Gymnastics -- N/A
Bowling -- N/A
Golf --Tin Cup
Tennis -- huh?
Cheerleading -- Bring It On (seriously, American Beauty?)

I was watching Bring it on while i was gettin it on the other day. it was lik a cosmic moment

The Red Tornado wrote:Baseball- I know it's hokey, but I cry at the end- Field of Dreams
Football- The Longest Yard (original)
Basketball- Hoop Dreams
Soccer- Bend it like Beckham
Hockey- Slap Shot
Boxing- Raging Bull
Auto Racing- Tallegeda Nights
Horse Racing- Seabiscuit
Figure Skating- Cutting Edge
Gymnastics- beats me
Bowling- Kingpin
Golf- Legend of Bagger Vance
Tennis- beats me
Cheerleading- Bring it On (american beauty was NOT a cheerleading movie)

Great list. I don't know why I always say Teen Wolf is my favorite basketball movie when Hoop Dreams is one of my top ten movies of all time. It's just a phenomenal movie from beginning to end. I remember seeing it in the theater back in 1995 and I remember being disappointed at the end because I wanted to see more. I've never had another three hour movie give me that kind of feeling.

I went to college with a kid who was a freshman on the St. Joe's hoops team the year that William Gates was a senior. His name was Rodney Horton and you can see him ever so briefly at the end of the film. What I found most interesting in talking to him about Hoop Dreams (he had lived the same life of an urban Chicago kid being recruited to play hoops in the suburbs at St. Joe's) was that he felt that Coach Pingatore was unfairly portrayed in the film. He thought that he comes off as kind of harsh, but that he really was a coach who cared greatly for his players.

I know that American Beauty isn't a cheerleading film in the traditional sense, but it features enough cheerleading that it works for me. It's my game so I'll play it how I want. I didn't set any rules for this. If people want to say that M*A*S*H was a football movie because it featured a football game, they can. It won't bother me.

I changed my golf movie- how could I forget Caddyshack?!

The Red Tornado wrote:I changed my golf movie- how could I forget Caddyshack?!

Cause it's all cult following and little actual funniness?

I mean it's ok, but it's no Tin Cup.

Chess - Searching for Bobby Fischer
Wrestling - Ready to Rumble
Swimming - The Swimmer
Arm Wrestling - Over the Top
Curling - Men with Brooms
Running - Prefontaine
Bicycling - Breaking Away
Dodgeball - Dodgeball
Birdkeeping - Birdman of Alcatraz
Hunting - The Deer Hunter
Prison Breaking - Escape from Alcatraz

it starts and ends with hoosiers.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

The Red Tornado wrote:I changed my golf movie- how could I forget Caddyshack?!

Cause it's all cult following and little actual funniness?

I mean it's ok, but it's no Tin Cup.

This doesn't deserve a response- Harold Ramis rules Ron Shelton and you know it.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

The Red Tornado wrote:I changed my golf movie- how could I forget Caddyshack?!

Cause it's all cult following and little actual funniness?

I mean it's ok, but it's no Tin Cup.

Maybe late '70s slapstick comedies just don't hold up well. I saw Caddyshack for the first time maybe five years ago and wondered what all the fuss was about.

Baseball : Bang the Drum Slowly
Tennis : Match Point
Soccer:The Goalie's anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Football: MASH (thanks Drugs!), or if I have to pick an actual football movie the original Longest Yard, which I'm now wondering how I ever saw it in a theater since it's rated R, and even I'm not that old . Probably why I liked it.

I saw the original Longest Yard in a theater. I was in High School so I couldn't have been 18. I don't think they carded anyone at movie theaters back then.