Sports movies are notoriously hard to pull off, so we’re choosing the best and worst cinematic efforts in various athletic disciplines. Do you agree? Leave your suggestions in the comments. Ricky ...

Sometimes, you watch a sports movie that is just so good you can’t help but go on your phone the moment after and look up how to play the sport. That’s the power of some of the best sports movies out ...

Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic’s weekly sports business cheat sheet. (Want to receive MoneyCall in your email every Wednesday? Easy sign-up here.) Name-dropped today: Brad Pitt, Michele Kang, ...

What Is the Value of Watching Sports Movies for Kids? Both experts note that sports-themed movies can be very helpful for kids because they often teach important life lessons and have inspiring themes ...

Sports dramas get Oscars. Boxing films have done particularly well at the Academy Awards — Rocky, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, The Fighter — and other sports have also been celebrated during ...

The 1970s is often heralded as the greatest decade in Hollywood history, and the sports movies made during that ten-year span did their part in establishing that well-deserved reputation. The ‘70s ...

It's one thing to round up the usual suspects when it comes to sports movies, since some of the greatest do rank among the best and most enduring films of all time. Take the Best Picture-winning ones, ...

Stories about athletes striving for greatness have always made for compelling cinematic experiences. So it goes with all sports films, which — at their worst — can be conventional and formulaic ...

Debating the best sports movie scenes of all time can yield a number of opinions. So, we decided to get downright scientific. A Bleacher Report panel of voters nominated 100 scenes, then voted to ...

As with any genre, sports movies are prone to sequelization. Usually, they are found in the world of sports comedies, because they have the whole “getting the band back together” vibe that comedy ...