30 for 30 running thread

I'm surprised they didn't do something related to the baseball strike. Fehr, Selig, replacement players, the decline of the sport's popularity and football's rise - so many rich fields there to harvest from.

 

I wonder if that was influenced by Ken Burns' release of "The Tenth Inning." It mined a lot of that same territory.

 

How about Todd Marinovich?

 

Great 30 for 30 subjects:

The Jail Blazers
Art Schlichter
Scab NFL players from 1987
Scott Norwood
IU basketball from BK's last year to the present
Doc Gooden & Darryl Strawberry
Ron Powlus

 

Suggested 30 for 30:
The '36 Olympics and the screw job Marty Glickman got - by the US coaches.
The Pine Tar Incident
And
The Rise of the San Diego Chicken - as told by Kenny Mayne and Kenny Powers

 

Don't know if Glickman fits within the 30...damn, that would've been up Bud Greenspan's alley.

Donnie Moore - in a way, the gopher ball to Dave Henderson killed him.

Hoya Paranoia - it helped make the Big East.

 

Some ideas that I don't think have been mentioned

Peyton Manning/Ryan Leaf

UNLV Basketball

The Baylor Basketball Scandal: Carlton Dotson, Dave Bliss, etc.

Start of the NBA Draft Lottery/Patrick Ewing

Art Modell vs Cleveland

AAU Basketball/Street Ball

Hideo Nomo (or Ichiro) and the rise of Japanesse players coming to the US

Monica Seles stabbing

NFL/instant replay

 

Would love to see a documentary about Earl "The Goat" Manigault. I know they did an HBO film (starring Don Cheadle) about him years ago, but I'd like to see something with actual film footage of him playing (if any exists).

 

Today only, Amazon has the whole 30-film series on DVD for $49.99

 

Another 30 for 30 idea, though a bit obscure - Rick Lopez, the Colorado AAU women's basketball coach who committed suicide in jail after being charged with 50+ counts of sexual assault

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328658/posts

 

Thanks for the heads up. Just bought it.

 

Another thanks - it was just ordered for me for Father's Day.