Sports Movies For Chicks

Happy Thursday!  Sports for Chicks columnist Lily Avnet presents a rental guide to get you through the long, cold weekend.

Through this blog, I’d like to consider myself a walking sports 101 course (unless there is any course lower than 101), but like any large lecture (the internet reaches 2308749857304982034 million people), teaching assistants are always appreciated.  However, the wonderful world of Netflicks gurantees that a sports education is just a DVD (or three) away.

Basketball: boom (boom) put it in the hoop like slam (slam)--I know you can all quote Aaron Carter, don’t lie. -Space Jam (here’s your chance…to get the soundtrack stuck in your head again, cause it only took most of elementary school to put that one to rest) -White Men Can’t Jump: funny cause it’s true?

Football: since Penn is desperately in need of the experience of a football team -Remember the Titans: who didn’t tear up in the end, watch how high school football can over come a racially divided town -Varsity Blues: the origin of the whipped cream bikini (that is of course an offensive formation, right?) -Friday Night Lights: Enjoy the book, the movie, the television show, and soon to come the clothing line, fragrance, and restaurant chain. -Rudy: basically The Goonies but instead of a treasure hunt, it’s a quest to play for Notre Dame -Brian’s Song: TV Movie, with Movie status.  Basically The Notebook for guys, if he doesn’t cry in this he is a soulless mutant.

Baseball: cause the cinema is the only thing that could make baseball entertaining -Field of Dreams: Remember when Kevin Kostner was cool -Sandlot: Can’t everyone relate to Smalls on some level?

Soccer: for the enjoyment of europenn -Bend it like Beckham: back when Kiera Knightly knew what food was

Icy/ Winter Sports: giving you a reason to visit the class of 1923 skating rink -Cool Runnings: Jamaica has a bob sled team -The Mighty Ducks: and there he was, the Might Duck man, and I said EMEEELIOO -The Cutting Edge: and ice skater falls for a hocket player.  Talk about sports for chicks…

The Definition of “Sports For Chicks”: more "chick" less "sports" -Center Stage: Second only to Clueless and Now And Then in the minds of women, -Bring It On: Reminding you that cheerleaders have incredibly stimulating and fulfilling lives…hm

Miscellaneous: the classics that you have to watch when televised, even with commercial interruption -Dodgeball: A throwback to middle school P.E -ROCKY.  Lucky for us penn kids we can actually experience Rocky’s run all the way to the PMA!  Anyone?