by mike | Apr 5, 2021 | Baseball, Fantasy, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Last week my bride and I were among the 10,000+ fans (20% of capacity at Petco Park, thanks to Covid-19) to attend Opening Day for the San Diego Padres, my favorite team. Padres baseball being my religion, I could not have been happier. Here is a post that I’ve run at...
by mike | Feb 18, 2021 | Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Native American reservations sit along the edge of America, a part of this country…but then again, not really. (This post first ran in 2017.) Outstanding director Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals, Skins) took a true story and turned it into Edge of America, a 2003...
by mike | Nov 12, 2020 | Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
In these challenging times we could all use a good laugh, so this edition of Movie Lines is all about quotes from comedy films. The post first ran in 2017. “But we Romans are rich. We’ve got a lot of gods. We’ve got a god for everything. The only thing we don’t have a...
by mike | Nov 5, 2020 | Fantasy, Movies, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
Nothing like a good, inspirational sports movie. This post first ran in 2017. The 2012 film, Touchback, is another inspirational sports movie that you undoubtedly missed. I viewed it on Netflix last year because I enjoy sports movies, and because Kurt Russell, one of...
by mike | May 14, 2020 | Horror Movies, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Psychological Thrillers, Quotes, Sports Movies, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Here are some notable quotes from a few of my favorite flicks. This post first ran in 2016. “I play hockey and I fornicate, ’cause those are the two most fun things to do in cold weather.” – Skank Marden (Ron Eldard) to a female reporter in one of the funniest—and...
by mike | Apr 20, 2020 | Basketball, Movies, Sports, Sports Movies, Uncategorized |
I believe it is significant that I’m writing this post on April 15th, which happens to be Jackie Robinson Day. The great baseball player—and even greater human being—broke the color barrier in what up until then had been a racially segregated sport, when he took the...