![]() So we’re counting down our choices for the 30 best sports films of all time - from boxing dramas to bowling comedies, surfing docs to slobs-versus-snobs battles on the links, trash-talking basketball showdowns to ninth-inning baseball stand-offs. But the great ones always make you want to stand up and do the wave in the theater. And other times, they prove that a well-timed explosion by a deranged groundskeeper trying to kill a gopher will help you go home a winner. ![]() Sometimes they inspire with examples of exceptional individualism. Sports movies are never just sports movies - they’re tales of the human spirit triumphing over adversity, or metaphors for the little guy taking on the corporate Goliaths and grown-up rich kids and beating them at their own rigged game. A never-was gets his or her shot to prove they have what it takes. ![]() A has-been suits up one final time for a last-gasp grab at glory. ![]()
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