# Sports that have not been covered in movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225 "2005-03-12T19:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/21 "2005-03-13T04:13:59Z")
How about lacrosse? Any Hollywood-type movies about that? ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/22 "2005-03-13T05:12:37Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > How about lacrosse? Any Hollywood-type movies about that? [The Creator’s Game](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159377/) (1999). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/23 "2005-03-13T05:17:21Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > [43 Man Squamish](http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/index-quiz_olympics.html) > > And we _really really need one!_ That, and Three-Cornered Pitney. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/24 "2005-03-13T08:33:22Z")
How about Buzkachi? [Linkage](http://www.worldinfozone.com/country.php?country=Afghanistan&page=2) Scroll down to “sport.” ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/25 "2005-03-13T09:11:43Z")
Winter biathlon. I’d think that this story would write itself - imagine a terrible “accident” with a rifle happening while two competitors are out in the woods, out of sight of the cameras. Or the Bad Guy secretly damaging the Good Guy’s rifle so that it malfunctions dramatically, sending the Good Guy to the hospital for months until he makes a dramatic comeback in the very last race of the season. Of course, before Hollywood could make a movie about it, Hollywood would have to know the sport existed. Problem… ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/26 "2005-03-13T09:30:36Z")
badmitten? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/27 "2005-03-13T09:40:50Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > How about fencing? You’d think it’d be a natural. Not to mention it’s really easy to do stunt doubles with those protective suits and masks. Fencing plays a key part in the James Bond film, Die Another Day. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/28 "2005-03-13T13:25:29Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > How about Buzkachi? John Huston’s 1975 epic [The Man Who Would Be King](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/) (based on the Rudyard Kipling short story and starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine) has a scene where the (Afghan) tribesmen are playing a polo variant using the head of a conquered chief, in a clear reference to _Buzkachi_ (which in its usual version employs a [decapitated goat carcass](http://archive.salon.com/news/sports/col/barra/2001/09/19/basketball/print.html)). [sub][The scene occurs once our heroes have gone through the Kyber Pass, and although the tribesmen are not “Afghans” in the film (they are Kafiris, IIRC), it’s clear that Afghan tribes were Kipling’s model.][/sub] As far as racket sports are concerned, I can think of:[ul] [li][Squash](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341588/) (2002), a 2004 Academy Award nominee for best short. (Squash also appears in [Annie Hall](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/) amongst other movies).[/li][li]A [Real Tennis](http://www.realtennisonline.com/rto/default.asp) (aka _Court Tennis_ in the US, _Royal Tennis_ in Australia, and _Jeu de Paume_ in France) match is shown in [The Three Musketeers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072281/) (1973).[/li][li]Lawn Tennis (the modern game, usually nowadays called just “Tennis”, but not the same game as in the previous paragraph), is shown in many movies, including [Wimbledon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360201/) (2004).[/li][li]Table Tennis, aka Ping-Pong, appears in [Forrest Gump](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/) (1994).[/li][/ul] However, as a couple of previous posters have said, there doesn’t appear to be a movie with a major **Badminton** scene, even though it’s one of the [world’s top 5 participant sports](http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about37583-20.html). I also can’t think of a movie with a [Rackets](http://rackets-online.co.uk/) scene, although that’s probably not too surprising. I would imagine that [Racquetball](http://www.racquetballcentral.com/) appears somewhere in the world of film, but I can’t offhand think of an example. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/29 "2005-03-13T13:43:09Z")
Fencing [By The Sword](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101524/) Rugby [Kick](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138531/) or [This Sporting Life](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057578/) Bowls [Crackerjack](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291832/) ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/30 "2005-03-13T16:18:18Z")
There’s got to be a spellbinding jai alai movie just waiting to be made. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/31 "2005-03-13T16:39:47Z")
I’m still waiting for a really good movie about BASEketball. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/32 "2005-03-13T17:01:32Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Fencing plays a key part in the James Bond film, Die Another Day. And I think most movie versions of “Hamlet” manage to sneak in something, too. > [@flodnak](#): > > Winter biathlon. Offhand, the only time I can remember seeing this sport portrayed was the introduction of the main henchman in _For Your Eyes Only_, [played by John Wyman](http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-villains/john-wyman.php?id=001). He’s first seen participating and excelling at a biathlon but manages to fail to kill James Bond anyway. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/33 "2005-03-13T17:05:32Z")
> [@Antonius Block](#): > > I would imagine that [Racquetball](http://www.racquetballcentral.com/) appears somewhere in the world of film, but I can’t offhand think of an example. If you just need a scene, there’s a racquetball scene in the comedy **Splash**. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/34 "2005-03-13T21:16:58Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Bowling? (the English lawn kind)? The film [Crackerjack](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0291832/) was set in a lawn bowls club that was facing financial difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/35 "2005-03-14T02:30:08Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > How about Buzkachi? [The Horsemen](http://imdb.com/title/tt0067216/) Plot was weak but the whole story was built about the sport. 1971 with Omar Shariff. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/36 "2005-03-14T03:50:31Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > How about fencing? You’d think it’d be a natural. Not to mention it’s really easy to do stunt doubles with those protective suits and masks. Olympic fencing was a pretty important part of [Sunshine](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/). How about extreme ironing? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/37 "2005-03-14T05:32:33Z")
Darts? Archery? Trap shooting/other marksmanship sports? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/38 "2005-03-14T05:39:10Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Has Cricket ever been covered? The bodyline cricket controversy of the 1930s was covered in [Bodyline.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086672/) ---
**Author:** ![spiralscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@spiralscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiralscratch)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/39 "2005-03-14T05:45:14Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > I’d like to say there wasn’t a foosball movie, but… [LongShot](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082676/) I’ve seen that. Twice. The first time I described it to friends, they didn’t believe me. Who would believe exists a foosball movie staring Leif Garrett and featuring Oingo Boingo? Luckily, the second time it came on I happened to have a blank tape sitting in the VCR. Showed them. Oh it’s bad. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225/40 "2005-03-14T10:09:00Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > How about Buzkachi? > > [Linkage](http://www.worldinfozone.com/country.php?country=Afghanistan&page=2) > > Scroll down to “sport.” _Rambo III_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-that-have-not-been-covered-in-movies/294225.md?page=3)