Pop Culture Showdown: Peyton, Tom, Phil, and Tiger
Pop Culture Showdown: predicting the winner based on random pop culture.
Category: Other Sports
Formula One, The Triple Crown, Surfing… there’s been some unbelievable real-life stories in other sports as well, and they are featured here.
Fearless – Chinese Martial Artist Huo Yuanjia
Watch Jet Li’s Fearless for free on Amazon with Prime membership. Jet Li’s Fearless is a movie about Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲), one of China’s most famous martial artists who lived from 1860 until 1910....
Eddie the Eagle – British Ski Jumper Michael Edwards
“The Ridiculous True Story” of Eddie the Eagle, as described in a GQ article, is unlike any other “inspired by a true story” movie because the main character doesn’t win at the end; in...
Chasing Mavericks – Surfer Jay Moriarity
Mavericks is the name of a surfing location in northern California just north of the town of Half Moon Bay, 20 minutes south of San Francisco and 1/2 mile offshore from Pillar Point Harbor....
The Walk – High-Wire Artist Philippe Petit
The Walk (2015) chronicles the story of Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, as he plans an audacious feat to walk between the towers of the World Trade Center. He understands this is both...
The World’s Fastest Indian
Burt Munro – The Fastest Human on Motorcycle “The World’s Fastest Indian” tells the story of New Zealand native Burt Munro on his journey to set a new land speed record with his 1920...
Soul Surfer – The Story of Bethany Hamilton
UPDATE: There is a new documentary, “Unstoppable”, that is out now which follows Bethany through 2018. On her website, Bethany Hamilton quotes I loved Soul Surfer, but this is the real me. It is...
Rush – James Hunt and Niki Lauda
“My name is Niki Lauda, and racing people know me for two things. The first is my rivalry with him [James Hunt]. I don’t know why it became such a big thing. We were...
Invictus – Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
Clint Eastwood’s Invictus tells the story of how Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela used rugby as a way to bring his nation together as the country attempts to move past the era of...
Miracle – 1980 USA Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team
Out of the countless memorable sports moments of the twentieth century, the “Miracle on Ice” of the 1980 Winter Olympics was proclaimed by Sports Illustrated as the Top Sports Moment of the 20th century....
Secretariat – 1973 Triple Crown Winner
The Thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973, the first horse to have done so since the 1940s. Though two other horses have since also won the Triple Crown, Secretariat still...
Seabiscuit
The 2003 film Seabiscuit, starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper, tells the tale of three men, all damaged in different ways during the Great Depression who bond together while training an underdog...
The Greatest Game Ever Played – 1913 US Open
The Walt Disney Picture The Greatest Game Ever Played is the story of Francis Ouimet, a young man who is invited to compete in the 1913 US Open Golf Tournament despite his poor socio-economic...
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