Big Screen Sports - The Sports Movie Podcast

Lou Brown. Norman Dale. Mickey. Gordon Bombay.  Almost every good sports movie features a coach soaking up a ton of screen time. Some are legendary; they pass the brick wall test. Some are just absolutely terrible. Today on Big Screen Sports, we're selecting the three best and three worst sports movie coaches, along with hearing who the Big Screen Sports listeners pick for the top and worst spot. ...

Eleven years in minor league baseball, and twenty days in the show. Sounds a lot like the fictional career of Crash Davis in "Bull Durham" but is actually the reality of the career of former big leaguer Cody Decker. Here's a clip from Cody's story on the 'From Phenom to the Farm' podcast talking about his comparisons to the fictional icon, and finally getting the call to head to big leagues.  You...

Most sports movies dealing with the fall of an athlete focus on something self-inflicted: drugs, poor work ethic, etc. "Everybody's All-American" takes a look at the cruelest cause of downfall for an athlete of all: age. Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange, and John Goodman star in a movie that's currently streaming on HBO Max.  NYT best-selling author Jeff Pearlman returns to Big Screen Sports to discuss...

Bonus episode of Big Screen Sports breaking down everything sports-related (and some great non-sports stuff) that's coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBO Max, and Apple+ in the month of September.  Did I miss something? Let me know on Twitter or the Big Screen Sports Facebook group.  Big Screen Sports is brought to you by DirectTV NFL Sunday Ticket, BetOnline.ag and DoorDash. Use promo code BlueWire...

For people of a certain age, "Eurotrip" is a teen comedy classic. Writers/directors David Mandel & Jeff Schaffer join Big Screen Sports to walk us through the making of the film. How shooting in Prague helped land an Oscar-winner for a cameo, how they combined a fresh-faced cast with great comedic actors in bit roles, and an incredible scene that never got filmed.  They'll also pick a few Big Scre...

On this minisode, host Kyle Bandujo talks the 2018 dark comedy "All Square", which is available to stream now on Hulu, as well as some great sports  (and some non-sports) movies that are currently available on Netflix or HBO Max. Big Screen Sports is brought to you by DirectTV NFL Sunday Ticket, BetOnline.ag and TheraOne CBD. Use promo code BlueWire for 15% off your subscription to NFL Sunday Tick...

Aron Phillips joins Big Screen Sports to talk about putting together an exhaustive collection of the entire basketball movie genre on one website. We talk about where we might see basketball movies heading in the next few years, and Aron dishes out his picks for best 30 for 30, best documentaries, and best dramatized films.  Check out The Basketball Movie Database and follow Aron on Twitter @the_r...

Paul Bettany is throwing 110mph in this one, folks. 2001's "A Knight's Tale" is newly streaming on Netflix, and might be even more rewatchable now than it was twenty years ago.  Brian Gill from the Mad About Movies podcast joins Big Screen Sports to discuss the film, and why its take on bringing modern music and sports themes to the 1300's works really well. We talk a powerhouse performance by Pau...

Two years after "Teen Wolf," the gang is back. Well not Michael J. Fox. Or Stiles. Or Finstock. Pretty much just Chubs. Chubs is back, and now he's joined by Jason Bateman, plus new Stiles and new Finstock to make a movie that's just as bad. NYT best-selling author Jeff Pearlman and his son Emmett return to Big Screen Sports to ponder why anyone would step into the ring against a werewolf, how exa...

Earlier this year we had on Brian Gill & Kent Garrison to discuss our five favorite sports movies of the decade. Here's a clip about "Rush," a film that made two of our lists and is available to stream on HBO Max. If you enjoy the clip, check out the full episode on our feed.  Tune in for Monday's episode covering "Teen Wolf Too" with Jeff & Emmett Pearlman. Follow Brian & Kent's podcast Mad About...

The baseball movie genre has produced tons of classics; "Bull Durham," "Field of Dreams," "A League of Their Own," etc. The list great baseball movies goes on and on.  Unless you're baseball author and analyst Ryan Spaeder, who thinks most baseball movies suck. Ryan joins Big Screen Sports to talk "Major League" actors, some players that deserved better in the Hall of Fame vote, and then do a rapi...

The defense is wrong, but this podcast covering a non-sports movie is always right. David Ruff from Washed Media returns to Big Screen Sports to break down why the legal comedy "My Cousin Vinny" is a perfect movie. Dave and host Kyle Bandujo will discuss the incredible performances of Pesci & Tomei, the surprisingly accurate court room action, the film's perfect portrayal of a fish out of water in...

Last month ESPN premiered the documentary "Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams" and it's very fair to say that it's one of the best baseball documentaries of the last ten years. Bobby Wagner of the Tipping Pitches podcast joins to discuss his impressions of the documentary and what we learned about Japanese baseball and the culture surrounding it.  We also talk Rich Hill's Players' Weekend D. Mountai...

"The Program" takes a shot that few other football movies have; trying to realistically portray what goes on at a major college football program. That's a tall task.  Barton Simmons (Barton & Bud podcast, CBS Sports) joins Big Screen Sports to grade how the film stacked up in portraying every single aspect of college football that it took a shot at. Barton and host Kyle Bandujo give their thoughts...

What defines a favorite movie is different for everyone. It might be the most rewatchable, or the best movie, or have to do with the circumstances surrounding when you saw it. JR Hickey, host of the new podcast 'So Many Screens', stops by Big Screen Sports to drop his favorite sports movie of all-time, and name his least favorite as well.  Follow So Many Screens on Twitter/IG @SoManyScreens Big Sc...

Brandon Kelly has a new podcast on the Blue Wire network, Golden Goal, discussing the greatest players and moments in soccer history.  Today Brandon joins Big Screen Sports to do the same, but with soccer movies. We'll discuss the soccer movie genre in general, and then Brandon breaks down his top films, where you can stream them, and why you should.  Big Screen Sports is brought to you by Manscap...

The Safdie brothers crushed it with "Uncut Gems," and while they didn't get any Oscars for their troubles, they're getting a bunch of praise in an episode of Big Screen Sports. Sam Esfandiari returns as guest to break down everything that hit right in this movie.  We'll talk the incredible performance by Adam Sandler, the film's fantastic score and pace, the dedication to authenticity that the Saf...

Every listener of this podcast should know by now how great the baseball documentary "50 Summers" is. Martie Cordaro is the President of the team featured in the doc, the Omaha Storm Chasers, and is a central character in the film.  Martie stops by to discuss his appearance in the film, as well as baseball in the city of Omaha. We also get into his career in MiLB, how he got to Omaha, the secret t...

You're a big winner. I'm gonna ask you a simple question and I want you to listen to me: who's the big winner here tonight listening to this podcast? Huh? You, that's who. USA Baseball's Daron Vaught returns to Big Screen Sports to discuss the 1996 comedy "Swingers," the non-sports movie of the month for Big Screen Sports. We talk young Vince Vaughn in the early stages of his "Wedding Crashers" ch...

It's a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for them.  Tim Miller joins Big Screen Sports to discuss an all-time sports comedy,  "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story." Tim and host Kyle Bandujo will talk about Vince Vaughn's peak, the plethora of incredible supporting characters in the film, and who White Goodman might've voted for (and why he puts off Donald Trump Jr. vibes).  They'll run t...

"50 Summers" tells the story of fifty years of minor league baseball in Omaha, told through the lens of the Omaha Royals franchise. A few months back we talked to director Dan Napoli and producer Bill Hipsher about their experience making the film. Now that "50 Summers" is available to stream on Amazon Prime, it's a good time to circle back with some of the stars of the film, and that means talkin...

Of Will Ferrell's quartet of sports movie comedies, Talladega Nights takes the cake as his best film. The 2006 NASCAR spoof hits all the right notes, and joining Big Screen Sports to break it down is Atlanta-area media personality, Wes Blankenship. We'll talk about the incredible Dear Baby Jesus dinner scene, the powerhouse supporting cast, and what made this movie a perfect spoof of Southern NASC...

"The 6th Man" might not have completely worked as a basketball comedy, but that didn't stop us from having a good time talking about it. The guys from the Air Buds Podcast join host Kyle Bandujo in talking about a movie that might be best left in the 90's.  The guys talk about the sex lives of ghosts, who the most talented Wayans brother is, and if a ghost was helping a Pac-10 basketball team, wou...

The advent of 30 for 30 has led to what could very possibly be the golden age of sports documentaries over the past decade. Bobby Wagner and Alex Bazeley from the baseball podcast Tipping Pitches return to Big Screen Sports to discuss their sports documentary preferences, what the future of sports documentaries looks like, and pitch a few ideas for baseball documentaries that we'd like to see made...

Mike Schubert has joined Big Screen Sports to cover Quidditch and basketball mixed with musical theater. He's returned for a third time, now to cover A capella in the 2012 musical comedy "Pitch Perfect." Mike and host Kyle Bandujo will break down what worked about the movie, what didn't, and offer their takes on if the film properly depicted A capella. They'll discuss if the Barden Bellas were too...