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FREE PRESS Page 8 Colby Free Press Wednesday, June 29, 2011 SSPORTSPORTS Sports documentaries open a door to the past In 2009, ESPN launched a documentary series called “30 for 30,” which features 30 fi lms that cel- ebrate 30 years of sports, from 1979 to 2009. If you Kayla Cornett have never heard of this, I insist you look it up right now. On the I have only seen 12 of these fi lms so far, but from • this sample, I have become engrossed by these sto- Sidelines ries and now I’m determined to see all of them. I have always loved watching documentaries, but this series has combined my love of documentaries with ball Association draft due to a cocaine overdose. I my love of sports. In short, the people who came up was shocked when I watched this fi lm, mainly be- with this idea are brilliant. cause of this sad event, but also because I had never Each fi lm was directed by a different person or even heard of Len Bias before this fi lm came out. production company, such as Major League Base- How does no one in the sports world talk about such ball Productions and National Basketball Associa- a talented player, who could have been outstanding tion Entertainment, so they aren’t all told in the same if he had not accidentally died – especially since his format. For example, “June 17th, 1994,” directed by death spurred the war on drugs? Either way, Bias’ Brett Morgen, is told through media coverage alone; story was not well-known to me and probably still there are no interviews and there is no narrator.
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