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Though he has four years left on his contract paying him $2.35 million annually, reports from various sources including ESPN’s Andy Katz has the two-time Naismith Coach of the Year possibly moving to the “bluer” grass of Kentucky.

The last time Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman worked together on picture with a sports backdrop, both won Academy Awards.

I played baseball from the time I was 7 all the way up to Stanford, where I was a 3- year starter in baseball and we won the 1987 College World Series with Jack McDowell, Cy Young winner, as our #1 starter, Ruben Amaro Jr., current GM of the Phillies, was our LF, David Esquer, current head baseball coach of CAL, was our SS, Mark Machtolf, current head baseball coach of Gonzaga, was our DH, and Ed Sprague Jr., current head baseball coach of UOP, was our starting 3B to name a few. We were the first team baseball team at Stanford to win a CWS.

The 11th edition of the
Method Festival Independent Film Festival begins its annual week-long run today in Calabasas, California and sports will play a prominent role in the screenings.

Is it just me or is this year’s version of the March Madness tourney lacking something? It used to be that the teams that advanced were playing their best basketball of the season at just the right time. Not this year. Now it is about survival as the perennially dominant big name schools are getting [...]

An exploration of their relationship was depicted in an earlier film “Ring of Passion” (1978) with former NFL receiver Bernie Casey portraying Joe Louis and Stephen Macht as Max Schmeling in a made-for-tv production. There have been a few presentations on this topic. Former boxer Corey Wallace was the title star in the 1953 picture, “The Joe Louis Story”

In this Nov. 23, 1968 photo, Harvard’s Pete Varney (80) catches quarterback Frank Champis’ two-point conversion pass in front of Yale’s Ed Franklin (15) to tie the football game in Cambridge, Mass.

In a genre dominated by testosterone, sports movies certainly have plenty of room for the ladies. As a matter of fact, down through the years Hollywood has produced some terrific titles with women at the center of the story. With a little luck we will see more make it to the silver screen. In the meantime, in chronological order, here are the lucky 13.

From Kultur Video comes this official review of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship season. And what a season it was. As exciting as the 2007 campaign produced, it pales in comparison to the incredible finish of last year.
 
The two-disc set takes us through an amazing season that saw seven drivers from five different [...]

The complete game of the USC Trojans’ dominating victory over Penn State in the 95th Rose Bowl is part of this new DVD package from ABC/ESPN