Inspired by ESPNs anniversary ESPN Films is launching 30 FOR 30 an unprecedented documentary series featuring 30 of todays finest storytellers telling thirty remarkable stories from the ESPN era. On their own each of the films will be an intimate look at a specific story relevant to larger themes from the modern era. Collectively these films will be a diverse mosaic of what sports has meant to American and World culture in the last thirty years. Each storyteller will bring their passion and personal point of view to their film detailing the issues trends athletes teams rivalries games and events that transformed the sports landscape from 1979 to 2009.
Review
I liked just about all of them but the Marion Jones one. As a Former Track stud the whole documentary made me sick. I lost so much respect for the once talented John Singleton because of the way this was told. She is the definition of a loser. I don't care that she was a good basketball player or not she helped destroy what Track & Field should & could have been here in the United States. Everything she says is complete BS. I hope she's a pariah for the rest of her pathetic life. It would have been one thing if she had just lied a few times but the fact she lied FOR YEARS & constantly would go in front of cameras & say she wasn't using performance enhancing drugs destroys any sort of credibility she might have had. She's as bad as anything Barry Bonds Mark McGuire Jason Giambi & Sammy Sosa did. Track & Field seems to still be trying to find an audience & she's a HUGE part of the reason why.
On a happier note. I loved "The U The 2 Escobars Tim Richmond Who Killed the USFL & the Best that never was the best. They were all pretty dang good documentaries & many of them could have been released theatrically they were that well done.