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ESPN have devised a 32-movie tournament to distinguish the best sports movie of all time

Published 19:30 22 Mar 2018 GMT

Rudi Kinsella
ESPN have devised a 32-movie tournament to distinguish the best sports movie of all time

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Some great movies here, which ones will you be voting for?

Given the month that's in it, ESPN have come up with a new version of March Madness, and created their own 32-team bracket in an attempt to distinguish the best sports movie of all time. The movies were seeded into eight categories and, as you'll see below, are largely limited to movies US audiences will be familiar with. It's the only reason we can think of for the exclusion of Escape to Victory. 1st seeds: Rocky, Remember the Titans, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams 2nd seeds: The Sandlot, Rudy, Caddyshack, Space Jam 3rd seeds: Miracle, Rocky II, Major League, Happy Gilmore 4th seeds: Talladega Nights, A League of Their Own, Friday Night Lights, Any Given Sunday 5th seeds: Jerry Maguire, We Are Marshall, Coach Carter, Raging Bull 6th seeds: The Waterboy, Dodgeball, The Mighty Ducks, The Blindside 7th seeds: White Men Can't Jump, The Karate Kid, Moneyball, Love and Basketball 8th seeds: The Longest Yard, Bring it On, Cool Runnings, Bend it like Beckham Have a look at the full list of movies, and which movies will be facing off here: https://twitter.com/espn/status/976182201044930560 So far, we've seen Rocky defeat Cool Runnings (which was extremely harshly deemed as an eighth seed), The Sandlot defeat Moneyball, The Mighty Ducks edge Miracle, and Talladega Nights destroy Jerry Maguire. It's hard to look past Rocky as favourite, but we wouldn't go ruling out Space Jam, Remember the Titans or Coach Carter just yet... The rest of the voting will take place throughout the rest of March, so keep your eye on the ESPN Twitter page if you want to cast your vote.

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ESPN have devised a 32-movie tournament to distinguish the best sports movie of all time