Minor league teams in all sports focus on marketing to bring fans into stadiums. One way for these teams to get media attention and help generate revenue is through their team name. Team names get support from fans, sell merchandise and give teams an identity. In seemingly desperate attempts to come up with a name, […]
Tag Archives: Sports Films
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Dec
Dec
Denver knows Johnathan McFarlane for his annual shindig Festivus Film Festival, but he’s also a talented filmmaker and videographer. One of his first films “Project Canada” is a documentary gem and the catalyst for putting Festivus in motion in order to help independent films get seen properly at festivals. I recently learned of another side […]
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Nov
Nov
Of the major American sports, next to hockey, basketball feels neglected. We have countless football and baseball gems, but not many great movie-making achievements when it comes to basketball. Here is my personal list of the 20 greatest basketball movies ever made. Although some are not in the top 20 of any number, the lack […]
Minor league teams in all sports focus on marketing to bring fans into stadiums. One way for these teams to get media attention and help generate revenue is through their team name. Team names get support from fans, sell merchandise and give teams an identity. In seemingly desperate attempts to come up with a name, […]
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The movie “We Are Marshals” recently came out in theaters but not without some controversy. Duis has taken some criticism for not being realistic enough in his image of this football community in Huntington; Western Va. 75 people lost their lives in plane crash. Of those 75 people, 52 were members of the football team […]
Sugar(2008) tells the story of a aspiring baseball player from the Dominican Republic. Struggling to make the cut from Dominican semi-professional baseball to the farm leagues of American professional baseball, Miguel (Sugar) learns that the challenge of making the big leagues is more complex and emotional than he had imagined. Sugar, played by Algenis Perez […]