a 30 for 30 thread

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

last 30 mins are better than i thought they would be

not a huge fan of directors explicitly telling stories in docs tho

unless it's werner herzog

god "one night in vegas" looks soooo fucking good

I'm just glad his teammates didn't get all resentful and jealous. Or maybe they did at the time, and as adults realize they had no reason to.

Who the fuck spits at a 12 year old kid, though?

man, child athletics are worse than the real thing

it's interesting to me how all the teammates talk about the game like it's in the present, using baseball cliches and what not

this was really well done tho -- did a good job of making you ride the same roller coaster

he sounds like john kruk!

I kinda would have preferred like 45 minutes of the aftermath of the championship. I guess there wasn't nearly as much footage of all the ridiculous crap that happened to Cody Webster et al after they won, but that segment was just so sad and so fascinating. The prior 30 for 30s have spoiled me to the point where this and Jordan Rides the Bus both came off kind of like "Eh this was interesting but it could have been a little better than it was".

One Night in Vegas seems like it could go either way. I am afraid they will spend a ton of time being like "Tupac's death was a truly significant moment in American history because blah blah blah metaphor" instead of being more like June 17, 1994, and just letting the story and the footage do all the work.

one of the things i really like about these is that they're (with some exceptions) only an hour long so you can watch them every week w/o feeling like you're going to film class or something, but i'm sure that's prob a bit of problem for the directors

Watching the Jordan ep finally...stupid Surewest guide kept lying to me.

I was never a huge Jordan fan, or baseball fan or anything but fuck that dude was everywhere back then, scary godlike to so many people...but I forgot how cool it is just to watch him move. Even when his swing is way off, just the...I dunno, beauty in his motion, the way he was *in* the moment of the swing...you forget that it wasn't just hype. Well, I forgot.

Getting the Little League ep tonight too, excited. Can't wait for Vegas.