Above: The ESPN film series opens with “Kings Ransom,’’ about the Los Angeles Kings’ acquisition of superstar Wayne Gretzky. Below: another film in the series is “The Band That Wouldn’t Die,’’ by Barry Levinson (right), about the Colts leaving Baltimore.
(Espn)
30 reasons to love sports
ESPN marks an anniversary with film slate
Above: The ESPN film series opens with “Kings Ransom,’’ about the Los Angeles Kings’ acquisition of superstar Wayne Gretzky. Below: another film in the series is “The Band That Wouldn’t Die,’’ by Barry Levinson (right), about the Colts leaving Baltimore.
(Espn)
Kirk Fraser was 9 years old - and living in the shadow of the University of Maryland - when the school’s basketball star, Celtics-bound Len Bias died of a cocaine overdose in 1986. Fraser remembers the media frenzy, the emotions, the way the event seemed a cautionary tale: “It prevented me from going down that path.’’ (Full article: 637 words)
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