Reviews - 30 For 30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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