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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Listen up, sports fans. Whether you're into baseball, football, boxing, basketball, horses, soccer, bowling or even pinewood-derby racing, chances are a movie's coming about your favorite pastime.
A Hollywood staple for decades with such classics as "The Pride of the Yankees," "Rocky" and "Raging Bull," sports flicks are on a winning streak with hits that include 2003's "Seabiscuit," last year's "Miracle," "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" and "Friday Night Lights" and this year's "Coach Carter."
"I think they'll always come and go in waves sort of like other genres in the business," said Brian Robbins, who has produced or directed such sports movies as "Varsity Blues," "Hard Ball" and "Coach Carter" with filmmaking partner Michael Tollin. "We always say you can open up the sports section every day and get a great human story. There's great inherent drama in sports. ...
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