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<i>30 For 30: Vick </i>is a nuanced portrait of a scandal-plagued quarterback

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30 For 30: Vick is a nuanced portrait of a scandal-plagued quarterback

For the past two NFL seasons, the greatest show on any given Sunday has been whatever game features either the…

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A 30 For 30 about Ric Flair breezes too quickly through pro wrestling’s most important era

Nearly every film about professional wrestling hits a crucial point, where the participants have to decide how fully…

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A short, sharp 30 For 30 looks at one of sports talk radio’s most famous teams

Fans of rock docs or any other Behind The Music-style specials about the rise and fall of a popular band should be…

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The epic Celtics-Lakers rivalry inspires one of the best 30 For 30s

When ESPN launched 30 For 30 back in 2009, one of the mandates for the series was to tell sports stories that hadn’t…

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30 For 30 shrugs at the train wreck that was the XFL

Do sports qualify as entertainment, or are they news? That usually depends on who’s telling the story and why. At a…

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A classic college football game gets the 30 For 30 treatment in “Catholics Vs. Convicts”

Two months ago, ESPN’s 30 For 30 offered a counter-narrative to its own “Survive And Advance” with the episode “Phi…

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30 For 30 swings big with John Daly, golf’s flawed folk hero

Given that 30 For 30 aired the sprawling five-part documentary masterpiece “O.J.: Made In America” just a few months…

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The latest 30 For 30 looks at Houston’s game-changing “Phi Slama Jama” era

30 For 30 has been around long enough now to start contradicting itself. One of the series’ best and most popular…

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30 For 30 looks at two Mets superstars who didn’t fulfill their early promise

When Mookie Wilson hit a ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs in Game Six of the 1986 World Series, it was a…

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ESPN’s five-part O.J. Simpson documentary is a masterful portrait of a crime and its context

Thanks to one of those odd periodic showbiz confluences—the kind that gives us two killer earthquake movies in the…

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There are too many Cleveland sports woes to squeeze into one 30 For 30

Way back in October of 2009, the second episode of 30 For 30, “The Band That Wouldn’t Die” (directed by Barry…

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The Magic’s too-brief heyday is the subject of a 30 For 30 about fickle fate

30 For 30 has been on a real losing streak lately. I don’t mean that the episodes have been bad. If anything, the…

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A gripping, discomfiting 30 For 30 looks back at the 2006 Duke lacrosse case

Here’s more or less what we know about what happened in Durham, North Carolina on the night of March 13th, 2006.…

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The Chicago Bears 30 For 30 sticks with the obvious story, but what a story it is

Broadly speaking, this 30 For 30 entry fits with other tales of brash, arrogant football teams that won big, then…

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A moving 30 For 30 honors the NFL’s most fantastic losers

One of the great fallacies of team sports fandom is that championships are the ultimate measure of value. Don’t get…

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30 For 30 bounces back with a tight episode about an underrated champion

Okay, that’s more like it. This third season of 30 For 30 has been kind of a bust up to now—with one embarrassing…

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A controversial football coach receives an overlong, overly fawning 30 For 30

If anyone ever constructs a museum dedicated to the life of Bill McCartney—the former Colorado Buffaloes football…

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An odd 30 For 30 retells Foxcatcher’s story without mentioning the movie

“The Prince Of Pennsylvania” isn’t the first 30 For 30 episode to cover the same ground as another documentary or…

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30 For 30: Angry Sky

As sports stories go, Nick Piantanida’s is a boring one. He attempted a feat, three times, and failed. Nick…

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30 For 30: “I Hate Christian Laettner”

It’s the little dribble. Ask any Kentucky fan—heck, ask any non-Duke fan—what was so aggravating about Christian…

Noel Murray

3/15/15 9:34PM

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