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In one of his earliest starring roles, Robert Redford gives a memorable portrait of an inarticulate, self-absorbed, but gifted world class skier obsessed with being the best, no matter the cost.
Taking on the sport’s best downhillers on the circuits of Europe with dreams of Olympic glory, David Chappellet’s (Redford) selfish clashes with his U.S. national team coach (Gene Hackman) can be summed up when he tells him, “I ski fast and that’s all there is to it”.

This beautifully-packaged, digitally preserved celebration of the Fall Classic is a magnificent collection of all the drama and unforgettable moments of the World Series.

Encased in a hardcover book that includes a 58-page pictorial retrospective going back to the event’s origins in 1903, are 65 films on 20 DVDs representing nearly 50 hours of restored and newly digitized masters going back to 1943.

In the long history of the National Football League, there is no other franchise that is more noted for their ball-stopping prowess.

For almost 90 years, the Monsters of the Midway have won nine NFL Championships mainly on the shoulders of the team’s strong, attacking defense.

The key word here is “treasures” as so much of the engaging material in this lavishly illustrated history of America’s game can only be found in the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.

It is about halftime, so grab another cold one and enjoy this brilliant new five-part documentary on Showtime celebrating the 50th season of “The Other League”.

From its tumultuous beginnings to its unlikely merger with its all-powerful well-established rival NFL, follow the birth of this brilliantly innovative upstart league filled with unique personalities both on and off the field.

From Canada (George Chuvalo) to Argentina (Louis Firpo), North America has been well represented in the heavyweight boxing division. The United States has produced dozens of world class fighters at this biggest classification as well, but despite a wealthy history of producing outstanding champions in various lighter categories (mostly featherweight and bantamweights), the heavyweight crown [...]

From their early days in the fledgling American Football League to the exciting squads of the 21st century, all the great games, star players and classic moments of one of the National Football League’s most exciting franchises scores on a new double-disc DVD set

Michael Jordan is the reason why hall of fames were created.

The five-time NBA Most Valuable Player leads a stellar group into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts this weekend.

It was 25 years ago today that the opening ceremonies celebrating the XXIIIth Olympiad began a run that would change the Games forever and one young man in particular.

Beginning tomorrow and running for a week and a half more than 200 films from 30 countries, including sneak previews from major studios and summer specialty releases will be presented in some of the finest theaters in Los Angeles.

Major releases debuting at the festival are “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” from Michael Bay and Johnny Depp starring as the Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger in “Public Enemies”.