Which Sports-Movie Event Would You Most Want to Attend?
Chong Li versus Frank Dux in the Kumite final; the Victory soccer game; Sidney Dean and Billy Hoyle versus the King and Duck; the Friday Night Lights title game; Doug and Kate's pairs final in The Cutting Edge; Blades of Glory; the Slap Shot title game; the Cool Runnings bobsled race; the dead ballplayers' cornfield game; Snake Plissken's full-court shot
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- Asked how high the Chong Li versus Frank Dukes final ranks among sports-movie events to attend, ringside with the Atlantic reporter: the storylines write themselves and it has to be number one on stakes alone, a fight to the death, a reigning champion undefeated for years, the first American with a chance to win, a fighter carrying the lineage of a mentor whose son died, and Chong Li coming off his second kill of the tournament. — Shea Serrano
- The soccer game in Victory is one host's pick, beating the Nazis before the crowd breaks through the walls, but it is argued down as more about the escape than the game, while the Kumite final is hype all the way; Vision Quest, never seen by one host, is called Matthew Modine's apex and the greatest wrestling movie ever.
- The remaining picks: Sidney Dean and Billy Hoyle versus the King and Duck, which you could probably wander up to for free; the Friday Night Lights title game; Doug and Kate's pairs figure-skating gold in The Cutting Edge, with Blades of Glory preferred; the Slapshot (as transcribed) title game, a brawl for three periods; the Cool Runnings bobsled race; a dozen dead racist ballplayers returning to play in a cornfield; and Snake Plissken's court-to-court basketball challenge ending in a full-court shot.