Time to have a little fun. Everybody here loves sports. Sports movies, maybe not so much. Lets face it most of them aren't that great. A lot of them are down right ofensive to the fans of the sport in the movie. Still, upon research, there are more good ones than I remembered. So I've made my list of sports movies, broken down into each sport. I will select my favorites, and if you disagree, or if I've ommitted something, please bring it on.

Baseball, football,  and basketball will each get their own posts later, as there are so many movies on each one of them. Right now we're going with a couple of sports with not a lot of movies repping them.

BOXING

Boxing had the only two sports movies to win an Ocar for best picture, 'Rocky', and 'Million Dollar Baby'. Here's my list.....

1.T.....'Raging Bull'

1.T.....'Rocky'

3.........'Cinderella Man'

4.........'Ali'

5.........'Diggstown'

Raging Bull should have won best picture in 1980. I guess the Academy didn't want to give it to another boxing movie so soon after Rocky won the award. Cinderella Man was beautiful, way underrated. Paul Giammatti was brilliant. Russell Crowe was pretty good too. Ali was just all right. Will Smith mugging is not entertaining for me after about ten minutes. I've seen it enough on 'The Fresh Prince'. Diggstown is a guilty pleasure to watch. James Woods is a piece of work. Honorable mention...The Hurricane. Worst boxing movie ever...Million Dollar Baby.

AUTO RACING

There were not many good auto racing movies to choose from. Here's my list.....

1.......'Last American Hero'

2.......'Stroker Ace'

3........'Le Mans'

4........'Speedway'

5.........'Greased Lightning''

Not one great auto racing movie. Sad. Last American Hero is a very good movie about the life of Jr. Johnson. Great racing scenes from the early 1970s between Richard Petty and Bobby Allison. I went with Stroker Ace at my number two because it's fun to watch, has some old NASCAR scenes from the 1980's, and a great Charlie Daniels song as the title track. Le Mans was the first state of the art, in car camera, racing movie. That state of the art was in 1971 though. Elvis in Speedway. Another guilty pleasure. Watch it for some old drivers and race scenes from the 1960s. Richard Pryor portrayed NASCAR's first black driver, Wendell Scott, in Greased Lightning. Honorable mention...Heart like a Wheel, Talladega Nights, Days of Thunder, and Six Pack. Worst auto racing movies ever....The Petty Story and Driven.