Five Must Watch Sports Movies !

Ali 

Ali 

A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days in the ring. The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston (Michael Bentt), his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier (James Toney) in 1971, and, lastly, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played

A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman, Harry Vardon. The film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win a U.S. Open. Amateur Golf in that era was then a sport only for the wealthy, and Francis came from an immigrant family that was part of the working class.

The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

Perhaps Sandler's best movie, the Longest Yard is yet another movie that can generate more than a few different emotions. Adam Sandler plays the protagonist, Paul Crewe, a disgraced former professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, who is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards. It marked as first movie for the great Khali from India.

Invictus

Invictus

One of the greatest sport/political movies of all time, and without a doubt the best, perhaps the only good, rugby movie of all time. Morgan Freeman was terrific as Nelson Mandela, the President who views rugby as a way of united the apartheid country in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Coach Carter

The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. The definition of a movie where education prevails over athletics. 

Coach Carter

Towards the end of the season, he sees that their grades, and most notably his star players', are faltering and that they won't have a realistic chance at college. He locks up the gym, forces them into the library and gets them to start working. A large amount of the kids go to college, and Coach Carter's deed is done. A great, true story, one that will make you laugh and tear at the same time.

London Olympics Few Hour Away - Clocks Ticking Faster !

London Olympics Few Hour Away - Clocks Ticking Faster !

Have you ever wondered how the Olympics started? In Olympia, Greece the Olympic Games were held every four years. First Olympic game was recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago. At that time this great festival took place to honor the Greek gods. Olympics were held during the great festival. The Olympics were called Olympiad in Greece. 

London is all set to dazzle the world with a grand opening ceremony to launch the greatest show on earth featuring over 10,000 athletes over the next fortnight, a spectacle that has seen the cost escalating to £9.3 billion ($14.5 billion).

Eighty-one athletes in London will form the largest Indian contingent ever to march at the Olympic Games. But if numbers could turn into Olympic success, a country of 1.2 billion should have grabbed at least 1000 qualifications and maybe 100 medals. If not that, then what’s the reason for India hoping to come home with a medals kitty heavier than ever before? 

Sixteen years ago in Atlanta, which was 16 years after India’s last Olympic medal and 44 years after the last individual medal, Leander Paes changed India’s ‘participation-matters’ outlook. An athlete has to soak in the pride, the honour to represent the country before he could mount the podium with the five rings and the national anthem sends a tear rolling down the cheek. That’s how Leander won that bronze and made every Indian believe: “It’s not beyond us.” 

Armed with a new-found self-belief, India's top athletes will seek to script a fresh chapter in the country's Olympic history as they go into the 30th edition of the sporting extravaganza from tomorrow with a realistic chance of winning medals.

Never before has an Indian contingent raised so much expectations and London could just be the launching pad for a new sporting era.

Five moments that will make Olympic history at the London Games:-

 

USAIN BOLT - If Bolt can overcome in-form fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake, he will become the first man to achieve the 100m and 200m Olympic sprint double twice.

MICHAEL PHELPS - Needing only two medals to equal the record of 18 held by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, Phelps will have plenty of chances.

BRAZIL FOOTBALL TEAM - Despite being the most successful team in World Cup history with five titles, Brazil have never won Olympic gold. 

OSCAR PISTORIUS - South Africa's "blade runner" is set to be the first double amputee athlete to compete at the Olympics after being selected for the 4x400m relay.

SAUDI WOMEN - For the first time in Olympic history, every country represented at the Games will include female athletes after Saudi Arabia agreed to send two women to compete.

One of the most telling images in the past 30 years of sports television was the moment at the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games when Muhammad Ali, shaking from the growing effects of Parkinson’s disease, courageously lifted the torch and sent a flame up to the Olympic cauldron.

Viewers from world wide are awaiting the most comprehensive coverage of an Olympic Games ever. Settle back and enjoy it !