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A basketball coach (Cathy Lee Crosby) hired by mistake is harassed by her superior. The American Game: 1979 Documentary Follows two high school basketball players from different backgrounds [1] Fast Break: 1979 Comedy Gabe Kaplan as a New Yorker who dreams of being a coach and finally gets a shot. [6] The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: 1979 Comedy
23. Teen Wolf. For more than a minute, the entire gymnasium goes quiet. Michael J. Fox has just transformed into a werewolf and begins dribbling the basketball before stunned teammates and ...
The Lonely Island song "Rocky", from the album Turtleneck & Chain is a parody of this song, imitating the style with a story about an underdog boxer who fights fictional boxer Rocky Balboa and loses. This song is referenced in the first line: "Here's a little story that I think you'll like / It's not about Shaq or Iron Mike."
The New York Times described the film as a "flashback to a time when baggy basketball shorts, hip-hop music and black shoes were considered controversial and an affront to hoops purists". [6] Washington Post columnist Jason Reid noted that the film went out of its way to present the inappropriate racial commentary by Jalen Rose when he ...
1. Hoosiers. Hollywood feel-good movie-making at its finest, this 1986 classic features Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, who brings a checkered past to his role as head coach at Hickory High. Based on ...
There are flops — "Like Mike" — but more times than not, they do some justice in depicting the game that we all love.
In 2010, Pitchfork included it in their list of "Ten Actually Good 90s Jock Jams". [7] In February 2024, Billboard ranked the song number ten in their list of "The 100 Greatest Jock Jams of All Time", writing, "A song that cast a greater shadow over ’90s sports culture than anything besides Shaquille O’Neal." [13]
MTV, VH1—you couldn’t turn on the tube without seeing the critically-acclaimed music video for this chart-topping hit from early ‘90s alt-rock giants R.E.M. Call it campus rock, if you will ...