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Peter Bart: As Hollywood Contracts, The Sports Universe Is Rapidly Expanding In Unexpected Directions
Sports movies have provided a welcome relief from rom-coms, just as the sports pages offer relief from gloomy Hollywood news, Peter Bart writes.
The new FX series Clipped offers him yet another unexpected role as an NBA coach who employs force and gravitas in guiding players in combat with the racist owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. The colleges instead will dole out their present sports revenue in the form of student paychecks, hopefully avoiding demands for even more funding representing of past glory. In addition to winning games — not then a Clippers tradition — they also had to cope with the discovery of a leaked tape containing racist slurs from their bombastic billionaire owner, Donald Sterling.
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