a 30 for 30 thread

I watched the Gretzky one on ESPN UK, thought it was OK. Apparently the one we get next week is a Barry Levinson one about Baltimore. Is that any good?

i think i missed that one? idk i also missed the AI one

The Baltimore one is FANTASTIC. xp

another pretty great one -- always loved ricky, so glad i still get to root for him

looking fwd 2 watching that one, i loved the AI one btw, had honestly forgotten abt a lot of that history

I dvr'ed the Ricky one. Watching it in the morning.

both the ricky one & the AI one benefit greatly from the insertion & analysis of the director

Ricky one was great; dude comes off like a dick and a vvv bright guy and a man intrigued with himself and his world.

yea loved the ricky one. it's fairly nuts that those dudes he happens to bro down with while he was living in cali burn down like an oz per poker game

yeah that can't be healthy in any sense of the word

Just watched the Ricky Williams one.

I think it's odd that they left out the fact that my high school played his high school in the city championships and we won 13-0, holding him to 46 yards.

I guess there are some truths that are still too painful for him.

i didn't plan on watching all 2 hours of The U (for the third time) tonight BUT HERE WE ARE

tonight's ice cube directed one on the raiders/nwa/80s la is pretty good. it doesnt really go beyond "hey these things happened all at the same time" but it really is a crazy time that can hold up a doc. plus al davis is o_O in hd y'all

oh and bonus snoop dogg is hilarious

is this on at the same time as the cavs game

they show it again on espn2 @ 11 iirc

Pretty sure I saw Cube give a look of straight fear in one of cutaways. Davis is the scariest human lizard corpse I've ever seen.

^ha just coming here 2 say that

Oh hey, my cousin is one of the people who speaks in this episode.

The OJ one was fucking incredible.

yeah, really amazing. I couldn't watched five hours of that.

* could've

damn iPhone

Wow, "The Two Escobars"

I watched the World Cup game between Colombia and the US in '94, and it was kind of a big deal to me. The US team was staying in the hotel where my sister worked, so I met a bunch of those guys on that team. But meanwhile, in Colombia...

Just saw that one last night...blew my mind. So used to the meme of sports triumphing over struggle, and just seeing the way that played out...I can't stop thinking about it. I knew a little, but I never knew the full story of the team or Andres Escobar.

The OJ story was pretty incredible too.

This series...man, they should be getting a sackful of Emmys for some of these stories.

yeah "two escobars" was absolutely fantastic

zero emmy nominations

smh

wtf I hate the Emmys

MJ one was cool

really interesting in the wake of the lebron thing tho

yeah it was rad

i like how everyone was like "yeah he would've made the majors"

is this the one that just aired?

yeah

next week's looks great too, about the US team at the little league world series that beat some unbeatable taiwanese team

I really want to see it -- hopefully I'll catch it later this week

yeah i had no idea he showed that much improvement. actually if you look at his stats from that year the one encouraging sign is that he walked quite a bit for someone who had never played.

yeah i noticed that too

you could just tell from the video clips -- i mean, obv it was selective but towards the end he was really staying back on the ball whereas in the beginning he was almost falling on his face

Best ones so far for me have been the two escobars and run ricky run

top 5 (nb I'm canadian and havent seen them all)

1. two escobars
2. winning time
3. the u
4.. guru of go/ loyola
5. allen iverson

yeah, winning time was also completely priceless

two escobars was some real cinematic shit

i'm biased for 'the u' so i'm gonna exclude that -- my top 5

1 iverson
2 run ricky run
3 two escobars
4 winning time
5 len bias

its impossible to pick between 2 escobars and winning time - escobars was the most moving, but winning time was the most entertaining. the one i really want to find on torrents is the OJ/day in June movie.

yeah i never saw that one -- should be on dvd soon

OJDay was pretty great; I remember that day really clearly. I was waiting tables in a restaurant and people were slipping me cash to keep them updated on the chase from the bar in the next room.

as a vancouver canucks fan, i'm prob gonna have to skip past the ny rangers parade footage - watching mark messier's stupid face is just too painful

2 escobars is popping up in oct a couple times--check the schedule site

another good one tonight

your boy the ump had the eric gregg strike zone working in that last inning tho