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.

There has been a disturbing trend lately here in the hood. The influx of soccer---I won't call it football---blogs. There is a window on FOX blogs main page for soccer blogs. Why am I seeing so many soccer posts under the NFL category then? That category is for a real sport. Not something that fourth grade girls do during reccess. I remember back in the 70s when soccer was to be the next big thing. Yeah, so was the decimal system, and I've drank thousands of mililiters of beer waiting on both.

This past year David 'has been' Beckham was going to turn the U.S. on to soccer. Once again America sniffed and said "eh."  Is soccer even on a major, english speaking, cable TV channel? Poker, bull riding, bass fishing are all on multiple networks. I don't see any posts from these major sports clogging up the NFL category though. Just soccer.

Save your breath, don't tell me that it's the most popular sport in the world. BFD. You know why? Because it doesn't cost any money to play. Anyone from a deodorant intolerant Frenchman to a North Korean dictator can get up a soccer game. All they need is a realitively mine free patch of dirt, and a goat's head or a camel bladder for the ball. We citizens of the USA like scoring and being scored on. Any game that has a goalie ---you to hockey---doesn't have enough scoring to keep us entertained.  Unlike Akbar, Yin,  and Kunta we have other entertainment options.

I'm putting this in the NFL category so all you soccer posters will get the message

Hello sports fans and welcome to the Monday Mailbag where we try to answer the most pressing sports and entertainment questions from the interweb. Please feel free to ask anything yourself, either in the comments, or by email for a future Mailbag.

Q.    Now that my 'brother' is out of rehab can I please get my job back?................Michael

A.    We here at the four letter network wish you all the best, but you have been replaced by another semi-cool, junior pimp dressing, loud, ex wide receiver who laughs at his own material.

Q.    Since the TV writers are still on strike, I'm trying to recycle some old SNL bits by using new actors in the old skits. Any ideas?...............................Lorne M.

A.    A great bit from the 90s was about adult diapers. Al Davis would be perfect as the spokesman giving the catchphrase......'Whoops I Crapped my Pants...I'm wearing them....and I just did.' Might be too realistic to be funny.

Q,    Who's gonna win da Super Bowl. And Carm is looking for something new to put out at her Super Bowl party. How bout it?...............................Tony S.

A.    Gulp. I, I, I'm glad to see you're still alive, T. I can't give you the winner until later in the week. I don't want to end up like Big ####. No, not Paris Hilton. The guy used to be in your crew. Now sleeping with the fishes. Tell the wife to start with the best onion rings in Jersey. They're at................

Q.    Yo, me and my boys are going to Arizona this week. Any sights to see out there?.............Chowd

A.    Well there's always the Grand Canyon. No, once again not her.

Q.    What can I watch on Sunday nights now that Madden isn't putting me to sleep?...Al M.

A.    'The Wire' is very good. A little slow on plot resolution. I prefer 'The Shield' on Sunday nights. Sadly it won't start until this summer.   

I know it;s hard to believe, but Pacman Jones has went full tilt in a strip, uh, gentlemen's club again. The highlights...... Once again Jones claimed mgmt. had stolen his money and jewelry. As he scuffled with bouncers in the hall outside the club's office, a female 'lawyer', who just happened to be in said office in the wee hours, came out to 'gawk'. Her exact word. She claimed, since retracted, that Jones reached around the bouncers and sucker punched her.

A few tips on strip club ettiquitte.... women, dont get behind the bouncers to 'gawk' at a confrontation. Mainly because a stripper will steal your purse in all the commotion. This second one I've never had a problem with, but apparently DO NOT remove your jewelry inside a strip club. And third, once inside the club, as soon as you pull any money out of your pocket it belongs to the club and/or it's employees. Pac, they don't want you, they want your paper. If you were some broke #### pimp wantabe you'd never get through the front door.

Don't know if this info has been posted in the past or not. There is a new race series starting this year. Old time NASCAR drivers will be competing in stock cars painted in the schemes they made famous.

Among the dozens already on board are...David Pearson (the greatest ever), Harry Gant, Charlie Glotzback, and #### Trickle.

Go to the site below for schedules and other info.

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