Great weekend for sports movies

To know me is to know how much I love sports movies. And tonight's a GRRRRREAT night for sports movies. There's "Summer Catch" on ABC Family (which makes up for an earlier programming snafu), "The Replacements" followed by "Remember the Titans" on TNT, a "Rocky" mini-marathon on Spike (the training montages still give me goosebumps, despite their corniness) and "The Mighty Ducks" on Cartoon Network (I know..."huh?"...but it works for me).

In ours, a society so top-heavy with reality TV crapola, it's nice to see some real choice when it comes engaging in the purest form of human drama I know of. Sports flicks always get me to well up...it's the telling of stories where anyone can go above and beyond themselves and do something, even if just for a fleeting moment, really great. Even the biggest misfit can attain glory. What's not to love about that? Sure beats the 24/7 coverage of Paris Hilton's jail stint.

God help me if "Brian's Song" or "The Champ" should come on tonight.