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Part 3 of the Sports Movies Tournament of Champions arrives, and to tackle the 16 movies in a region named after a sports movie legend like Rocky Balboa – home to movies like Miracle, Remember the Titans, Cool Runnings and Major League - we are joined by baseball writer and movie buff Cliff Corcoran (@CliffCorcoran). 

For more from Cliff, go read his baseball writing at The Athletics and his appearances on the baseball podcast, The Infinite Inning. 

Check out the complete 64 movie bracket here.  And make sure you do not miss the Part 1 (Bombay Region) and Part 2 (Bambino Region). Up next is Part 4, the MISTER Miyagi Region, before we wrap it up with a Sweet 16 finale.

To see how these 64 movies were selected and seeded, see here. And check out our podcast for the previous episodes devoted to movies in specific sports, from Boxing and Baseball to Olympics, Hockey and many more.

Outré: "Eye of the Tiger" Survivor (1982, aka Rocky III)

The Sports Movies Tournament of Champions continues with Part 2, running down the 16 movies in the Bambino Region, including favorites such as Raging Bull, Enter the Dragon, Caddyshack, Field of Dreams, White Men Can't Jump ... and even Hoosiers. Joining us to select the 4 movies that will advance to the Sweet 16 is movie critic and sportsman Daniel Goodman (@DanRossGoodman).

Check out the complete 64 movie bracket here.  If you missed Part 1 on the Bombay Region, check it out here. Up next are episodes covering the Miyagi and Balboa Regions, before we wrap it up with a Sweet 16 finale. 

To see how these 64 movies were selected and seeded, see here. And check out our podcast for the previous episodes devoted to movies in specific sports, from Boxing and Baseball to Olympics, Hockey and many more.

Ten months and 300 sports movies later, the Tournament of Champions has arrived – the 64 best sports movies are going head to head to decide the title once and for all, in a bracket so grand it needs five episodes. On part one, the host of our legacy podcast 32 Fans, Alex Chester (@achester99), joins Av and Sammy to tackle the 16 movies in the Bombay Region (Rocky, Hoop Dreams, Uncut Gems... its a loaded region!).

Check out the complete 64 movie bracket here. To see how these 64 movies were selected and seeded, see here. And check out our podcast for the previous episodes devoted to movies in specific sports, from Boxing and Baseball to Olympics, Hockey and many more.

Alex and Av's Curb Your Enthusiasm re-watch podcast Pretty Pretty Pretty Good can be found here.

Outré: "Sports Song" Weird Al Yankovic (2014)

Will, Sammy and long-time listener Nolan Rossiter (@Nrossy) decide the best martial arts sports movies of all time, joined by a bonafide expert, the host of Kung Fu Movie Guide (@KFMovieGuide, and website) Ben Johnson. See all the (movie) contestants, from Enter the Dragon to Mortal Kombat and yes, A Knight's Tale, here.

You can check here to see the winners to date in our nine-month sports movie marathon. Next month, the long awaited 64 Sport Movie Tournament begins!

Outré: "Kung Fu" Ash (1995)

Av and Sammy are joined by the host of the Boxing Trivia Guy (@boxingtriviaguy), Jim Marshall (@LairdJimi), to crown the best boxing movie of all time. Check out the bracket here and let's get ready to rumble! 

You can check here to see the winners to date in our sports movie marathon, plus explore all the boxing movie rankings we aggregated to seed this episode's bracket. Next month, the long awaited 64 Sport Movie Tournament will commence! 

Outré: "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson" DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (1989)

Sammy, Will and Av conduct a 32 movie bracket and declare the official podcast #1 movie of 2019. Thanks to all our listeners and friends who sent in clips of their choices. 

The bracket can be found here.

You can view each of our top 32 ranked movies of 2019 here.

Av's full 2019 movie rankings can be found here.

2020 is an Olympic year and to select the best movies made about the Olympics, we went right to the source, inviting the host of 32Fans (our gender neutral sibling pod) and noted Olympics pundit Akiva Wienerker to join us in deciding the best movies ever made about the Olympics, and while we are at it, also Wrestling and Climbing. The ten best movies will go on to compete in the 64 sports movie grand tournament taking place this March.

To see the movies that have been selected so far for the tournament, see here. With two months to go, next month we’ll name the best movies on boxing and finally, the miscellaneous entries.

Two outré songs: (1) the official song and dance number from the 1964 and now 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (2) “The Wrestler” by Bruce Springsteen.

Is watching a movie alongside a 32Fans Movies host a surefire way to introduce you to your new favorite movie of all time? The answer so far is yes, as Jared Jerome is now the second person in successive months to see a movie with Av and name it perhaps his all time number one.* That movie is the new World War One epic 1917, which we convene an emergency episode with Jared to discuss post-haste. Warning, spoilers, Queen Princesses and a few Jumblies lie ahead.

Outre song is a 2015 cover of Wayfaring Stranger by Narrow Way

*exact terminology is a matter of dispute

Av stops by the main 32 Fans pod to visit Keev and Alex to discuss the best movies of the decade. Click here to see the full lists from all 3 plus listener lists. 

Av, Sammy and Will are joined by Justin Patridge of Newsarama and DIS/MEMBER. 

We start out talking about some movies from 2019 that we think have been overlooked before making our way into recent watches (25:44), followed by extensive spoiler-filled discussions of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (47:19) and Uncut Gems (1:07:00). We end the podcast with Classics Corner (1:31:30) and, as a special treat, Av's 6-year old daughter hops on at the very end to share her quick takes on Star Wars (1:43:10).

Other Movies discussed on the podcast: Little Women, Bombshell, Two Popes, Atlantics, Deerskin, Cats, 6 Underground