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This is the best time of the year for sports. College football, the NFL, baseball playoff’s - 3 or 4 nights a week there is one or more good sporting events to tune in to. In tribute to the best sports season, I have compiled a list of the 10 best sports movies.

1. Bull Durham
   The genius of Bull Durham is that it is a baseball movie that is not really about baseball (and minor league baseball at that), but about life, love, and all of the bullshit in between. Susan Sarandon gets the MVP, and Robert Wuhl is awesome in his small supporting role.
   
2. Raging Bull
   Maybe the best movie by arguably the best actor of all time. De Niro delivers a full on tour de force performance as Jake La Motta.
   
3. Caddyshack
   “This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia.”
   
4. Hoosiers
   Okay this is the same formulaic sports movie that has been made over and over - so why does Hoosiers work? The continually underrated Gene Hackman. Hackman is simply awesome, Barbara Hershey is freakin gorgeous, and Dennis Hopper is Dennis Hopper.
   
5. North Dallas Forty
   I like this movie, in spite of this movie.
   
6. Eight Men Out
   I can’t believe this list only has 2 baseball movies…. This Blacksox movie is excellent even though Cusack is in it.
   
7. Brian’s Song
   Somebody once told me that this is the only movie that men can watch together and cry during… To be fair, it is pretty damn sad.
   
8. Any Given Sunday
   Even though this movie looks like it was edited by bingeing speed freaks, and is basically an updated, slicker North Dallas Forty, Oliver Stone ultimately delivers a fairly interesting football film.
   
9. Hoop Dreams
   If you wonder why this documentary makes the list, I would bet that you haven’t seen it.
   
10. Slap Shot
    Yea, it’s a hockey movie. But it is a wild, vulgar, 70’s Paul Newman hockey movie.