Forgot about The Hustler. As long as you consider Billiards a sport, it has to be near the top of the list. Great movie.
The Sandlot is a great movie too.
Ohh, Six Pack! I loved that movie ~grins~
Another vote for Rudy and Major League here too…
~J
As long as we’re expanding the genre, how about Searching for Bobby Fischer?
And are there any good movies about bridge? Or bingo? 
Come on, people! Are you forgetting The Big Lebowski? According to Trivial Pursuit, Russia enjoyed a 200% surge in the popularity of bowling because of it!
imthjckaz, you mentioned * Pride of the Yankees*. I have heard Roger Ebert say more than once that that is his favorite sports movie too.
I love most of the ones you all have mentioned for varying reasons. But to me the one that addresses love of the game more than any other is Field of Dreams. It has a lot of personal meaning for me.
My dad taught me to love baseball, beginning with listening to Red Barber, Mel Allen and Dizzy Dean on the radio. I think I even remember that the first worldwide television broadcast was of a baseball game.
When Field of Dreams came out, my father was dying. When I saw it, it took my breath away. I went to see it again and then one more time two days before he died. After that I carried a baseball in my purse for months just to remind me of the scene between father and son.
There is something about baseball that is different from all the other sports. It has a lot to do with tradition, and it is more of a game of the senses than any game I know. All of my favorites are baseball movies.
Does anybody else remember a little movie called Star Wars?
It had a sports scene and I doubt SI even considered it.
** Men with Brooms ** 
Has there ever been a movie with a CFL basis?
Only in Robin Hood or Waterworld mode. Bull Durham and Dances With Wolves were pretty damn good.
So play nice, now!
What about The Postman?
I think they meant “exciting” in the “oh God, what is this jackass going to do next” sense. I mean, it’s going to be hard to top throwing ice at kids or making stupid homophobic comments.
I forget which announcer said this, but it sums him up perfectly: “Shockey just needs to let the Miami Hurricane grow out of him.”
Well you’re all wrong.
The best sport movie wasn’t even a movie it was a TV mini-series called Bodyline and it wasn’t about sport it was about cricket
It is my favorite sport based visual entertainment though so I felt like mentioning it.
As to the OP I think B.D. should win. Class movie.
Gah. Please don’t mention The Postman.
Not only was it a terrible movie, but it ruined a very good David Brin novel, dammit.
Costner went south really fast once he started getting some creative (if you want to call it that) control over his movies.
Yeah, well.
I could do a line-by-line dissection of Halloran’s piece, but why bother? A lot of this stuff isn’t logical anyway. Like why Crash Davis finds Annie Savoy desirable. (Because she’s played by Susan Sarandon, that’s why. Yum!) But let’s look at one:
What, a noncontender has never given a top Class A prospect a look in September when they expand their roster to 40 players? They don’t care which minor-leaguers have the best stats; they care about which ones have a chance to make the bigs for real someday. They’re interested in Nuke enough to (IIRC) give him a big signing bonus, and send Crash down from AAA to babysit him; they might be interested enough in him to take a closer look to see how close he is to being part of their future.
Meanwhile, he’s too busy calling Annie a ‘harlot’ due to having a new boyfriend every year, to notice the one real factual clinker in the movie - that she can somehow support herself as a part-time instructor at a rural community college.
It’s fine that Halloran doesn’t like the movie. Tastes differ. But he tries to use logic to suggest that the rest of us made a mistake by liking it - and it’s really lousy logic. Makes you think he didn’t like it not because tastes differ, but because he’s stupid enough to get tripped up over supposed inconsistencies that don’t actually exist.
I am as passionate a fan of baseball as you will ever meet, but “Bull Durham” simply wasn’t that good a film. Out of 108 minutes of movie, there was 30 minutes of good baseball, 10 minutes of funny jokes, and 68 minutes of some of the most meandering, point-free scriptwriting I’ve ever witnessed.
I vote for “Rocky.”
What about “Victory”?
I mean, Pele made about 3 bicycle-kick goals (Who knew about the Brazilian army’s contributions to WWII), and Stallone saved how many point-blank shots?
Directed by no less than John Huston!
That’s a point well made. You are voting for Bull Durham with that line of reasoning, aren’t you?
Jeez: Breaking Away
I liked ‘Eight Men Out’, too, but I read the book first.
“Breaking Away,” “62*,” and “Pride of the Yankees” are all good movies.
But “Field of Dreams” (despite my disagreement with the premise that Shoeless Joe Jackson should ever get into the Hall) captures something very real about baseball for me.
I am incapable of passing “FoD” on TV without stopping to watch it. It’s just mesmerizing for this baseball fan.
Julie
I’m going to cast my vote for a movie that has not yet been mentioned, but has probably been seen by more people worldwide than most of the other candidates:
Sport: Cricket. Setting: India, 1893. Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2002. Plus singing and dancing!
If you see only one Bollywood movie in your lifetime, check out Lagaan!